Privacy Policy

Last updated November 7, 2026

Your privacy matters to us. This policy explains what information Recent Funding collects, why, and what you can do about it. It covers the website at https://recentfunding.com, the newsletter and the API. It doesn't cover third-party sites we link to; they have their own policies.

If you visit the site

Analytics. We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and visitors. It doesn't use cookies, and it doesn't track you across other websites.
Server logs. Our hosting providers (Vercel and Railway) record standard request data such as IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time. It's used to run and secure the service.
Which organisations visit. We look up which organisation owns the network a visit comes from, such as a company, university or government office, using an IP lookup service (ipapi.is, through FetchAPI). We keep only organisation-level results: the organisation's name, website, type and rough location, the pages viewed and how many visits. For home and mobile connections we keep nothing but a count. Each page sends our server one small notice that it was viewed, which is how we tell a person's browser from automated traffic; only visits with that notice are looked up. We do this for those visits and, once a day, for the previous day's page views in our hosting provider's (Vercel's) request logs, which include pages served from its cache. For the lookup itself, the address is held in memory only while it is looked up (a minute or two for a live visit, the length of the daily run for the request logs), and to avoid looking up the same address twice we keep a one-way hash of it for two days. We also store IP addresses separately, as described under "IP addresses" below. We use these results to understand who uses Recent Funding and may use them to tell an organisation about Recent Funding at its business contact address. We never publish them. We don't look up visits from browsers that send a Global Privacy Control signal, and our page doesn't send the notice from them.
Visits by people who sign up. When you give us your email (subscribing to the newsletter, signing in, or getting an API key), we note which pages were viewed from your network that day, before and after you signed up, and the organisation that network belongs to. We use this only to understand what our subscribers and API users are interested in, never publish it, and never share it. The link between your network and your email is kept for two days; the summary of pages you viewed is kept for 30 days. A shared network, such as an office, can include a colleague's visits. To opt out, email us and we'll delete it.
How you use the site. Our own page script records each page you view (the full address, page title and the page you came from, including any campaign tags in the link), how long you stay and how far you scroll, the links and buttons you click (their label and where they lead), when you submit a form (not what you typed), and details of your device: browser, operating system, device type, screen and window size, language and time zone. Each record carries the random browser identifier described below, a session identifier that resets after 30 minutes without activity, your IP address and the approximate location (country, region and city) our hosting provider derives from it. When you give us your email, these records are linked to it. We use this to understand how people use Recent Funding and to improve it. It stays on our own servers: we don't use a third-party analytics service for it, don't record your screen, and never publish or share it. It is kept for 12 months. Nothing is recorded for browsers that send a Global Privacy Control signal.
IP addresses. We store the IP address of each visit our page notice confirms, together with the random browser identifier described below, the browser type, the number of pages viewed and when we first and last saw it. When you give us your email (subscribing, signing in, or getting an API key), we also store your IP address against your email and link it to the browser identifiers seen from that address that day, so we can recognise your later visits from the same browser, including from other networks. We use this to understand how people use Recent Funding, to keep the service secure and to prevent abuse. We never publish it or share it. It is kept for 12 months after we last see it. We don't store it for browsers that send a Global Privacy Control signal. For page views from September 25 to November 6, 2026, before we stored addresses ourselves, we imported the IP addresses, network, country and pages viewed from our hosting provider's (Vercel's) request logs; those records can't tell whether a browser sent a Global Privacy Control signal. To have yours deleted, email us.
Your browser's storage. The site remembers your light or dark theme choice in your browser's local storage. It also keeps a random identifier there, and a session identifier, which it sends with the page notice above and with clicks toward pricing or an API key, so we can count a visit once and see which pages lead people to sign up. When a visit's network is identified as an organisation, that identifier is linked to the organisation for 30 days. It is stored with the IP addresses it was seen from and, if you give us your email, linked to your email, as described above.

We don't use advertising cookies or trackers, and we don't sell your information.

We store your email address, the page you signed up from and the time you signed up. We also store a keyed one-way hash of your IP address, which lets us spot abuse without keeping the address itself and can't be turned back into it. We use your email only to send the newsletter. We may use an email delivery service to send it; they process your address only for that purpose.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email, or by writing to hello@recentfunding.com. When you unsubscribe, we stop emailing you.

If you're listed as a founder or team member

Recent Funding publishes information about startups, including founders' and team members' names, roles, and public profile links (such as X and LinkedIn) and public profile pictures. It all comes from public sources such as company websites, accelerator and investor portfolio pages, news articles and public social media profiles, and we show the source for each person. We publish it because it's part of understanding who is building a company and who is backing it.

If you'd like your information corrected or removed, email hello@recentfunding.com from an address we can connect to you, or tell us how to verify it's you. We'll act on it promptly.

Contacts

Recent Funding's API can give a customer the work contact details of people in decision-making roles at the companies we track: name, job title, a work email address and a public profile link such as LinkedIn. They come from our own public data (founders named on company, accelerator and investor pages), from people-search providers we reach through FetchAPI, and from checking whether a common work address format (such as first.last@company.com) receives mail. We confirm an address before we provide it, we never provide personal email addresses (such as Gmail or Yahoo), and we never publish these details on the website. Customers may use them only for relevant business outreach.

To be removed, send your email address to https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/contacts/opt-out (a POST with {"email": "you@company.com"}), or email hello@recentfunding.com. We stop providing it at once and keep only the address itself on a suppression list, so it isn't added again.

If you use the API

API requests are logged like any other web request (see "Server logs" above). Every API request needs a free key, which takes just an email address (the free plan allows 50 requests a day). We store the email and a hash of the key, never the key itself.

How long we keep information

Newsletter subscriptions: kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.
Server logs: kept by our hosting providers for their standard retention periods.
Organisation-level visit records: kept while they're useful for understanding who uses the site.
IP addresses, with the browser identifiers and emails they are linked to: 12 months after we last see them.
Records of how you use the site (page views, clicks and device details): 12 months.
One-way hashes of IP addresses used for lookups, and links between a network and an email: two days.
Links between a browser identifier and an organisation: 30 days.
Pages viewed by people who signed up: 30 days.
Company and founder information: kept while it's relevant, and removed on request.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect the information we hold. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or object to the processing of your personal information. To make a request, email hello@recentfunding.com.

California residents

If you live in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act gives you these rights, and this section describes our practices in its terms.

What we collect. Identifiers (an email address if you give us one, a random browser identifier, and and your IP address, linked to your browser identifier and, if you gave it, your email); internet activity on this site (the pages viewed, time on page and scrolling, clicks, form submissions without their contents, and device and browser details); approximate location derived from your IP address; and the organisation that owns the network a visit comes from. For founders, team members and company decision makers, the public profile information and work contact details described above.
Where it comes from. From you and your browser, from our hosting providers' request logs, from an IP lookup service (ipapi.is, through FetchAPI), and, for founders, team members and company decision makers, from public sources, people-search providers reached through FetchAPI, and mailbox checks.
Why. To run and secure the service, send the newsletter you asked for, understand who uses Recent Funding, tell organisations about it at their business contact address, and provide company contacts to API customers.
Selling and sharing. We provide work contact details of company decision makers to API customers (see Contacts above), which California law may treat as a sale. You can opt out at any time as described there, and we honor it at once. We don't share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Your rights. You can ask to know what we hold about you, to have it deleted or corrected, and to opt out of any sale or sharing. We won't treat you differently for using these rights. We honor the Global Privacy Control signal as an opt-out for the browser that sends it.
How to ask. Email hello@recentfunding.com. We'll confirm your request using the email address involved, and reply within 45 days. An authorized agent can ask for you with your written permission.

Children

The service isn't directed at children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Changes

We may update this policy. When we do, we change the "updated" date above.

Contact

Questions or requests: hello@recentfunding.com.