Privacy notice

Last updated 10 November 2026

The Investor Database (theinvestordatabase.com) is run by Avvale Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 14805382. Registered office: 2a Bray Road, Reading RG30 3JD, United Kingdom. Contact: hello@theinvestordatabase.com.

This notice explains what personal data we handle, why, and your rights. It has two parts: people who appear in our lists, and people who use this website or buy from us.

Part 1: if you appear in our lists

What we hold

We publish information about investment firms, funds, angel networks, accelerators and corporate investors. Where the organization or a regulator names its people, we record their name, role and the organization they work for. We also record the organization's own published contact address (for example info@ or pitch@). We do not collect personal email addresses, personal phone numbers or home addresses for people in the UK or EU, and we do not hold any special category data.

Where it comes from

Only public sources: the organization's own website (team, portfolio, pitch and contact pages), SEC filings (Form D, Form ADV), Companies House, the FCA register, the ESMA register of EuVECA funds and national venture capital association directories. Every row in our files shows the date we checked it, and 4,176 of 4,178 show the source we used. We do not buy or copy other databases or contact lists.

Why we use it, and our lawful basis

We publish these lists so founders, startups and their advisers raising investment can find the right organizations and approach them in their professional capacity. Our lawful basis is legitimate interests (UK GDPR and EU GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). We have weighed this against your interests: the data is limited to your professional role, it is already published by your organization or a regulator for people to find, and we make it easy to correct or remove.

Who receives it

Names and roles appear on our website and in the files we sell to founders, startups and their advisers raising investment. Buyers may be outside the UK and EEA. Our terms limit buyers to using the data inside their own organization, in line with data protection and marketing law, and bar them from reselling or republishing it.

How long we keep it

We re-check every row at least twice a year. When a person no longer appears on their organization's site or the relevant register, we remove them at the next check.

Your rights

You can ask us to correct your details, remove them, or stop using them (the right to object). You can also ask for a copy of what we hold. Use the update or remove form or email hello@theinvestordatabase.com. We act on corrections and removals within 5 working days, and answer every request within one month. Once removed, you will not reappear in later editions unless you ask.

Part 2: if you use this website or buy from us

Free sample and email sign-ups

When you ask for the free sample we keep your email address, the date and the page you came from. We use it to keep a record of who downloaded the sample and, only if you tick the box, to send you the weekly list of new VC funds, or news of the next edition. You can unsubscribe at any time. Lawful basis: legitimate interests for the record, and consent for the emails.

Orders

Payments are taken by Stripe, which acts as an independent controller of your card details; we never see them. Stripe tells us your name, email address, country and what you bought. We keep this order record for 6 years for tax and accounting. Lawful basis: performing our contract with you, and legal obligation.

Requests through the update form

We keep what you send us and our reply for 2 years, so we can show we acted on it.

Hosting, logs and cookies

The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes technical data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect it. Fonts load from Google Fonts. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies, so there is no cookie banner. If that changes, we will ask for consent first and update this notice.

Complaints

Please contact us first and we will try to put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk, or, if you are in the EU, to your local data protection authority.