A newly released dataset tracking venture capital activity reveals that 27 of 80 seed-stage AI investors announced their most recent deal within 30 days of October 6, 2026, according to a report published this week by The VC Corner. The list identifies funds with public evidence of a transaction announced in the previous 180 days, refreshed weekly, and includes the portfolio company backed, announcement date, approximate round size, and a link to the original post. The report argues that most investor lists fail founders by omitting the single metric that separates active funds from dormant ones: the date of their last publicly announced deal.
The full dataset encompasses 80 venture firms that have publicly disclosed at least one seed-stage AI investment in the past six months. Every entry draws from a LinkedIn post, with the company name, rounded investment size, and announcement timing included for each fund. Five of the 80 funds will exit the 180-day activity window by October 20, while new entrants arrive weekly, the report notes. Seven financing rounds placed 24 of these funds on the same cap tables, creating syndicate clusters that the report maps for founders seeking co-investors.
The report cautions that every source is a LinkedIn post, meaning third-party announcements can misidentify which firms participated in a given round. The author flags seven rows in the dataset where one firm's post announces leading a deal that another firm also claims, suggesting both may be investors but requiring verification before outreach. According to the report, any investor list row lacking a deal date from the past six months "is a bookmark, however busy the fund's website looks, and bookmarks go in their own tab until you find the date."
The report frames recency as one of three essential scoring dimensions for founders building outreach lists, alongside fit and reach, each rated one to five, where a score of one on any metric should eliminate that row from consideration. The 27 funds with deals announced in the past month represent "the partners with the freshest reason to take a meeting this month," the author writes, because recent deployment signals both available capital and active decision-making. The dataset's perishability—with funds aging out weekly and new ones entering—means static lists become outdated within days, the report explains, which is why the working sheet for subscribers includes live day counts and automatic recency scoring on every row. The report provides a workflow for moving from a fund's dated deal to a partner-level score, a syndicate map showing which investors co-invest, and a Claude prompt that reads the list's weekly JSON feed to flag every addition, change, and departure.
For software company executives raising seed rounds in AI, the implication is straightforward: check the calendar before the pitch. Founders who treat six-month-old deal announcements as current intelligence risk wasting bandwidth on funds that have already allocated their vintage or shifted focus, while those who prioritize the 27 firms with October activity gain access to partners whose most recent investment decision is still fresh and whose fund models likely accommodate another check this quarter.