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How to find VC portfolio companies
Describe the VC firm or fund stage to target
Name the VC firm or fund stage you want to prospect into, like Sequoia portfolio or Series A-backed SaaS. Sculptor scans Clay's B2B company data and funding sources for matches.
Sculptor sources portfolio companies and finds contacts
Sculptor identifies companies matching your investor or fund stage criteria using Clay's company database and funding intelligence, then waterfalls through 150+ providers to find a verified Head of Growth email on matched rows.
Finished table with company name and Head of Growth email
Your list shows company name and, for matched rows, a verified Head of Growth email. Push to Smartlead, Instantly, or your sequencer to trigger a campaign the moment a row lands.
Why Clay for finding VC portfolio companies
Multi-source portfolio company discovery
Pull every company a VC has backed using Crunchbase's "Find Principal's Investment Activity" or Dealroom's "Get Investors Investments" action. Claygent Navigator also browses each firm's own website to extract portfolio lists that structured APIs miss.
Verified Head of Growth emails at scale
Get a verified work email for each matched contact on your list. Clay waterfalls through 150+ providers and only charges credits when a provider returns a confirmed hit, with catch-alls and role inboxes flagged before your campaign fires.
ICP scoring layered on funding signals
Score and segment matched portfolio companies by funding stage, headcount, industry, and tech stack in the same table. Clay formulas rank each account so your team works the warmest rows first.
Auto-refresh and CRM sync on schedule
Keep your portfolio list current as VCs make new investments. Clay re-runs enrichment on a daily or weekly schedule and writes updated rows back to Salesforce or HubSpot automatically.
Our most successful campaigns are built on data that doesn’t exist in off-the-shelf tools. Clay helps us find those signals — and transform ambitious ideas into executable, high-performing campaigns.
Frequently asked questions
How does Sculptor find VC portfolio companies?
Sculptor queries funding databases like Dealroom and Crunchbase to pull every company a specific investor has backed. Dealroom's "Get Investors Investments" action returns company name, type, and domain, while Crunchbase's "Find Principal's Investment Activity" action covers 2 million+ organizations. If a fund is missing from structured databases, Claygent AI scrapes the VC firm's public portfolio page and adds the results as new rows. Sculptor then runs waterfall enrichment across multiple contact-data providers to attach a verified founder email to each company.
How accurate are the portfolio company and founder email results?
Coverage depends on two layers. For portfolio companies, Crunchbase receives 30 million+ verified data updates per year and has accurately predicted 84% of private market events, so well-known funds tend to have near-complete listings. For founder emails, Clay's waterfall enrichment lifts coverage from roughly 30% with a single provider to around 80% by querying multiple sources in sequence. Customers routinely 3x their enrichment rate compared to using one provider alone.
Can I map portfolio companies for multiple VCs at once?
Yes. Paste a list of VC firm names, upload a CSV, or pipe rows from an existing Clay table, and Sculptor processes every firm in parallel. Each row returns the portfolio companies and founder emails for that investor. When the table is complete, push the results to HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive, or export as a CSV to start outreach immediately.
Is it legal to collect and use VC portfolio company data?
Public company and funding data is generally fair to collect and use for B2B outreach. Under GDPR, reaching out to founders at portfolio companies typically falls under the legitimate interest basis (Article 6(1)(f)), provided the message is relevant, you disclose your data source, and you include a clear opt-out. In the US, CAN-SPAM requires a functioning unsubscribe link in commercial emails, and CCPA now covers business contact data for California residents, with penalties up to $7,988 per intentional violation.
Always check the rules for your jurisdiction and respect each data provider's terms of service before launching outreach.