Find signal before
the round.

Both. Caplight covers the entire venture-backed universe, from pre-seed companies emerging from stealth through growth-stage names approaching IPO. Early-stage investors use it to track new company formations, founding-team hires, and pre-seed and seed rounds the moment they fire. Late-stage investors use the same platform to track revenue milestones, customer wins, and secondary trade activity. The 14 signal types and 50,000+ company graph are identical across stages. Only the thesis you describe and the filters you layer on change.

Over 50,000 private companies. Every name with at least one round of venture financing, from pre-seed to growth. The graph refreshes continuously as new rounds and new companies surface.

Caplight tracks 14 distinct signal types across funding events (funding rounds, acquisitions, acqui-hires), talent moves (senior hires and departures, layoffs), product moves (product launches and announcements), and commercial wins (partnerships, customer wins, revenue milestones, awards). Regulatory actions and conference attendance round out the set. Each event is sourced from news and job postings, deduplicated against prior events, matched to a canonical company, and timestamped.

Yes. Watchlists, comments, and assignments are shared at the team level. The platform is built so analysts, associates, and partners can stay aligned on who owns each name, what has changed, and when to engage.

Caplight’s MCP server is the primary integration channel. Any MCP-capable tool (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or your own AI agents) can query the company graph, signals, watchlists, funding rounds, and MarketPrice directly, with full provenance on every record. The same data is also available via REST API and CSV/Excel export for tools that don’t speak MCP, so the platform pipes cleanly into Affinity, Salesforce, Notion, and internal data warehouses.