Free VC Websites: The Best No-Cost Resources for Venture Capital Data

After 65+ investments, I've built a free VC data stack that rivals what most large funds pay $30,000 per year for. Here is every source, what it actually contains, and where it falls short.

The explosion of SEC disclosure requirements, LP-facing transparency mandates, and state pension fund reporting laws has created an accidental public record of venture capital. Most investors don't know it exists. The ones who do have a serious information advantage.

Why Free VC Data Has Never Been Better

Three forces converged over the last decade to make free VC data genuinely useful. First, the SEC expanded Form D reporting requirements, making fund formation data searchable going back to the 1990s. Second, Carta accumulated enough fund clients to publish statistically significant quarterly benchmarks — and they release them publicly to build brand. Third, state public pension funds (CalPERS, Texas TRS, Washington State Investment Board) are legally required to disclose their alternative asset portfolio performance in detail.

The result: you can now find median Series A pre-money valuations, vintage-year TVPI benchmarks, fund-level DPI for hundreds of specific managers, and real-time deal flow data — all without paying a dollar. What you cannot find for free is company-level financials pre-S-1, detailed cap table data, and proprietary deal intelligence at scale. That is the actual gap that PitchBook and CB Insights fill.

The 12 Best Free VC Websites

The Free VC Websites Most People Miss: State Pension Disclosures

This is the most underutilized free data source in venture capital. California's CalPERS ($500B+ AUM), Texas Teacher Retirement System ($200B+ AUM), and Washington State Investment Board ($200B+ AUM) are legally required to publish the performance of every fund in their alternative assets portfolio. That means fund-level TVPI, DPI, IRR, and commitment size — for thousands of specific VC and PE funds — updated quarterly.

In practice, this means you can look up exactly how Andreessen Horowitz Fund IV is performing, what KKR's 2017 vintage returned, or whether a mid-market PE fund you're evaluating is actually top-quartile — all for free, right now. The data has a lag of one to two quarters, but the directional signal is accurate.

I've used CalPERS and Texas TRS data to diligence fund managers who claimed top-quartile performance but whose actual LP-reported returns told a different story. This is the most direct way to verify a fund's track record without paying for a data service.

You can access this data directly from our VC & PE Performance dashboard or from each state's public investment board portal. No login, no subscription, no data contract required.

What You Still Need to Pay For

The free stack covers macro benchmarking, fund verification, and deal flow context. It does not cover company-level financials before a public S-1, real-time proprietary deal flow at scale, or detailed cap table data across private companies. Those gaps are where paid subscriptions earn their cost.

How to Use Free VC Websites as an Emerging Manager

As an emerging manager raising your first or second fund, the free data stack matters more than it does for large funds. You cannot afford PitchBook at $20,000 per year before you have management fees. But LPs will ask you benchmark questions that require real data.

My recommendation: bookmark Carta's quarterly reports, download the NVCA Yearbook every spring, set up a Google Alert for "Form ADV" + your target fund managers, and build a recurring check of the CalPERS and Texas TRS quarterly disclosures. That free workflow gives you 80% of what you need to run a credible LP process.

For real-time market data — SaaS multiples, layoff trends, unicorn counts, VC fund benchmarks — our free Benchmarking Dashboard and VC Performance Dashboard give you live data without a subscription. These are the same dashboards I use in my own fund diligence process.