Value Add VC · Intelligence

The War Room

Pick any two. See the shortest sourced chain.

Six Degrees

Pick any two. Get the shortest chain of sourced connections between them, with the source for every link.

OpenAI ↔ SpaceXAnthropic ↔ OpenAIStripe ↔ FigmaxAI ↔ Mistral AIDatabricks ↔ AnthropicRamp ↔ Brex
Example · OpenAI to SpaceX
2 degrees of separation
1 hop: 242 hops: found
  1. OpenAICompany
    profile ↗
  2. Alpha Wave Global invested in OpenAI
    Listed on Alpha Wave Global's portfolio page · Alpha Wave Global portfolio page
    Alpha Wave GlobalInvestor
    profile ↗
  3. Alpha Wave Global invested in SpaceX
    Listed on Alpha Wave Global's portfolio page · Alpha Wave Global portfolio page
    SpaceXCompany
    profile ↗
About this data

1,134 companies, 1,733 investors and 2,006 funds tracked by Value Add VC (plus 957 candidate companies listed on investors' portfolio pages), joined by 8,851 connections, 7,029 of them backed by a confirmed round, a portfolio page or a public filing.

Coverage: this is the part of venture our database tracks, not the whole market. A missing link means we haven't sourced it yet, not that it doesn't exist. Data as of November 12, 2026.

By the numbers

How connected is venture? Every pair, every hop and the Kevin Bacon of venture, counted across the whole sourced network.

Leaderboards

Rounds announced Aug 15, 2026 to Nov 12, 2026 in the Value Add VC dataset

Most active

Rounds in the last 90 days · bars: rounds per week

  1. 1
    Andreessen HorowitzInvestor · 42 rounds · 1 not independently verified
    Orbit: put Andreessen Horowitz in the centre
  2. 2
    Sequoia CapitalInvestor · 31 rounds
    Orbit: put Sequoia Capital in the centre
  3. 3
    General CatalystInvestor · 31 rounds · 1 not independently verified
    Orbit: put General Catalyst in the centre
  4. 4
    Y CombinatorInvestor · 24 rounds · 1 not independently verified
    Orbit: put Y Combinator in the centre
  5. 5
    Lightspeed Venture PartnersInvestor · 22 rounds
    Orbit: put Lightspeed Venture Partners in the centre
  6. 6
    NvidiaCompany · 22 rounds · 1 not independently verified
    Orbit: put Nvidia in the centre
  7. 7
    Khosla VenturesInvestor · 20 rounds
    Orbit: put Khosla Ventures in the centre
  8. 8
    Bessemer Venture PartnersInvestor · 16 rounds
    Orbit: put Bessemer Venture Partners in the centre
  9. 9
    AccelInvestor · 15 rounds
    Orbit: put Accel in the centre
  10. 10
    8VCInvestor · 13 rounds
    Orbit: put 8VC in the centre

Most leads

Rounds led in the last 90 days · bars: leads per week

  1. 1
    Andreessen HorowitzInvestor · 20 leads
    Orbit: put Andreessen Horowitz in the centre
  2. 2
    Lightspeed Venture PartnersInvestor · 14 leads
    Orbit: put Lightspeed Venture Partners in the centre
  3. 3
    General CatalystInvestor · 13 leads
    Orbit: put General Catalyst in the centre
  4. 4
    Sequoia CapitalInvestor · 13 leads
    Orbit: put Sequoia Capital in the centre
  5. 5
    Insight PartnersInvestor · 10 leads · 2 not independently verified
    Orbit: put Insight Partners in the centre
  6. 6
    Bessemer Venture PartnersInvestor · 9 leads
    Orbit: put Bessemer Venture Partners in the centre
  7. 7
    Valor Equity PartnersInvestor · 8 leads · 1 not independently verified
    Orbit: put Valor Equity Partners in the centre
  8. 8
    AccelInvestor · 7 leads
    Orbit: put Accel in the centre
  9. 9
    Khosla VenturesInvestor · 7 leads
    Orbit: put Khosla Ventures in the centre
  10. 10
    Atreides ManagementInvestor · 6 leads
    Orbit: put Atreides Management in the centre

Most connected

Distinct sourced connections: rounds, portfolio pages and filings · bars: rounds per month, 12 months

  1. 1
    SV AngelInvestor · 121 sourced links
    Orbit: put SV Angel in the centre
  2. 2
    Felicis VenturesInvestor · 88 sourced links
    Orbit: put Felicis Ventures in the centre
  3. 3
    Andreessen HorowitzInvestor · 86 sourced links
    Orbit: put Andreessen Horowitz in the centre
  4. 4
    Khosla VenturesInvestor · 82 sourced links
    Orbit: put Khosla Ventures in the centre
  5. 5
    8VCInvestor · 81 sourced links
    Orbit: put 8VC in the centre
  6. 6
    GreycroftInvestor · 71 sourced links
    Orbit: put Greycroft in the centre
  7. 7
    Scribble VenturesInvestor · 71 sourced links
    Orbit: put Scribble Ventures in the centre
  8. 8
    Sequoia CapitalInvestor · 68 sourced links
    Orbit: put Sequoia Capital in the centre
  9. 9
    Union Square VenturesInvestor · 68 sourced links
    Orbit: put Union Square Ventures in the centre
  10. 10
    Spark CapitalInvestor · 61 sourced links
    Orbit: put Spark Capital in the centre

Counts are rounds in our dataset, not the whole market. A round counts once per firm (a fund's rounds count for its manager), only day-dated rounds fall in the window, and investors a round's own source doesn't name are left out.

How Six Degrees works

  • A link in a chain is a sourced fact: an investor named in a confirmed funding round (with the round, its date and the outlet), a company on an investor's own portfolio page, a fund and its manager on a public filing, or an acquisition.
  • Rumored or low-confidence rounds, IPO underwriters and lenders are left out. So are investors that a round's own source doesn't name. Investors listed only on a company profile, with no page to cite, appear in the detail panel as a dashed line but never make a hop.
  • The search runs breadth-first in your browser, so the chain it returns is a shortest one in the data. When several are tied, the one with the strongest evidence comes first (rounds over listings, a lead over a participant) and the others are one tap away.
  • “Route around the biggest hubs” re-runs the search without the most-connected names, for a less obvious chain.
  • The Orbit puts one name in the centre with its connections around it: who backs it above, what it backs below. Solid lines are sourced links; dashed lines are profile listings. Tap any name to move it to the centre.
  • Share a chain with its link: the two names ride in the URL.

Famous chains

An arrow points from the investor (or acquirer) to the company.

Most-connected investors

Top 50 investors by connections in the Value Add VC database (companies backed plus funds managed).

  1. 1SV Angel125 connections · 118 companies
  2. 2Andreessen Horowitz96 connections · 83 companies
  3. 3Felicis Ventures90 connections · 82 companies
  4. 48VC85 connections · 73 companies
  5. 5Khosla Ventures85 connections · 77 companies
  6. 6Sequoia Capital78 connections · 65 companies
  7. 7Greycroft74 connections · 70 companies
  8. 8Union Square Ventures73 connections · 58 companies
  9. 9Scribble Ventures72 connections · 69 companies
  10. 10Spark Capital63 connections · 40 companies
  11. 11Coatue Management59 connections · 53 companies
  12. 12CRV59 connections · 53 companies
  13. 13Digital Currency Group55 connections · 55 companies
  14. 14Comcast Ventures54 connections · 53 companies
  15. 15General Catalyst53 connections · 52 companies
  16. 16Accel50 connections · 34 companies
  17. 17Alpha Wave Global47 connections · 41 companies
  18. 18Homebrew45 connections · 40 companies
  19. 19Village Global45 connections · 42 companies
  20. 20Lightspeed Venture Partners44 connections · 37 companies
  21. 21Shrug Capital44 connections · 42 companies
  22. 22Kleiner Perkins43 connections · 37 companies
  23. 23Forerunner Ventures42 connections · 35 companies
  24. 24SignalFire41 connections · 35 companies
  25. 25Thrive Capital40 connections · 20 companies
  26. 26Collaborative Fund39 connections · 32 companies
  27. 27Floodgate39 connections · 34 companies
  28. 28Insight Partners39 connections · 26 companies
  29. 29Madrona Ventures39 connections · 39 companies
  30. 30Tribe Capital39 connections · 31 companies
  31. 31Activant Capital38 connections · 32 companies
  32. 32Index Ventures38 connections · 24 companies
  33. 33Y Combinator38 connections · 38 companies
  34. 34CrossLink Capital37 connections · 33 companies
  35. 35Valor Equity Partners37 connections · 30 companies
  36. 36HOF Capital36 connections · 36 companies
  37. 37Paradigm36 connections · 34 companies
  38. 38Hanwha Asset Management35 connections · 35 companies
  39. 39Lerer Hippeau Ventures35 connections · 29 companies
  40. 40MaC Venture Capital35 connections · 34 companies
  41. 41ParaFi Capital35 connections · 35 companies
  42. 42ARCH Venture Partners34 connections · 28 companies
  43. 43Craft Ventures34 connections · 28 companies
  44. 44BoxGroup33 connections · 28 companies
  45. 45CapitalG33 connections · 32 companies
  46. 46Seedcamp33 connections · 30 companies
  47. 47Founders Fund32 connections · 20 companies
  48. 48Menlo Ventures31 connections · 24 companies
  49. 49Spacecadet31 connections · 29 companies
  50. 50Bonfire Ventures30 connections · 29 companies

Most-connected companies

Top 50 companies by connections in the Value Add VC database (their investors, plus any investments of their own).

  1. 1Nvidia57 connections · 1 investors
  2. 2Anthropic45 connections · 45 investors
  3. 3Ramp28 connections · 28 investors
  4. 4OpenAI27 connections · 22 investors
  5. 5Databricks25 connections · 24 investors
  6. 6Anduril Industries23 connections · 23 investors
  7. 7Fractile22 connections · 22 investors
  8. 8Legora22 connections · 22 investors
  9. 9Hadrian21 connections · 21 investors
  10. 10Groq20 connections · 20 investors
  11. 11Skild AI20 connections · 20 investors
  12. 12Vercel20 connections · 20 investors
  13. 13Form Energy19 connections · 19 investors
  14. 14Crusoe18 connections · 18 investors
  15. 15Cognition17 connections · 17 investors
  16. 16SpaceX17 connections · 14 investors
  17. 17Baseten16 connections · 16 investors
  18. 18Mistral AI16 connections · 16 investors
  19. 19Physical Intelligence16 connections · 16 investors
  20. 20Snorkel AI16 connections · 16 investors
  21. 21Stoke Space16 connections · 16 investors
  22. 22Stripe16 connections · 15 investors
  23. 23Valar Atomics16 connections · 16 investors
  24. 24Whatnot16 connections · 16 investors
  25. 25Airtable15 connections · 15 investors
  26. 26Harvey15 connections · 15 investors
  27. 27Higharc15 connections · 15 investors
  28. 28Lovable15 connections · 15 investors
  29. 29Quantum Systems15 connections · 15 investors
  30. 30Temporal15 connections · 15 investors
  31. 31xAI15 connections · 14 investors
  32. 32Arena14 connections · 14 investors
  33. 33BlackRock14 connections · 1 investors
  34. 34Castelion14 connections · 14 investors
  35. 35Emerald AI14 connections · 14 investors
  36. 36Figure14 connections · 13 investors
  37. 37Flock Safety14 connections · 14 investors
  38. 38General Intuition14 connections · 14 investors
  39. 39OpenEvidence14 connections · 14 investors
  40. 40Plaid14 connections · 14 investors
  41. 41Shield AI14 connections · 14 investors
  42. 42Suno14 connections · 14 investors
  43. 43Supabase14 connections · 14 investors
  44. 44World Labs14 connections · 14 investors
  45. 45Alibaba13 connections · 3 investors
  46. 46Clay13 connections · 13 investors
  47. 47Coinbase13 connections · 11 investors
  48. 48Decagon13 connections · 13 investors
  49. 49Etched13 connections · 13 investors
  50. 50Hugging Face13 connections · 12 investors

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