Over the past eight years we’ve built a global venture capital firm and a portfolio that has scaled to over 300 companies. Along the way, we’ve learned that one of the persistent challenges in early-stage investing isn’t just finding promising companies; it’s finding the right information to understand them, often when that information is not obvious. That challenge led us to build Jelly, a company discovery and research platform we initially developed for ourselves and are now making available to our peers.
At the earliest stages, information about private companies is fragmented across countless sources. A company might appear in an accelerator batch, a funding announcement, an investor’s portfolio, or a founder’s LinkedIn profile long before it shows up in a traditional database. Each signal matters, but it often arrives in a different channel, and piecing together the broader picture takes time. Existing data platforms can be expensive, yet still leave significant gaps in coverage and context. For a lean investment team, time spent searching across databases, tracking investor activity, and reconstructing context is time not spent with founders or making decisions.
Today, we’re launching Jelly, built for the earliest stage of venture, when a promising company is hardest to find and even harder to understand. Jelly brings together millions of data points around private companies, the funds that back them, precedent transactions, M&A, accelerator / hacker house batches, and signals from top investors. It turns a bare name and logo into a full profile including what the company does, who has invested, how much the founder has raised and where it fits in the broader market. This not only provides a tool for investors, but our hope is that it substantively democratizes how undiscovered founders are surfaced.
We initially built Jelly for ourselves, but the challenges it addresses are hardly unique to Everywhere. Many investors face the same fragmented information landscape, often with lean teams with limited time and resources. Making Jelly available to our peers is a natural extension of why we built it in the first place.
Jelly is also part of something broader we’ve been building inside Everywhere over the past year.
As our portfolio has grown, so have the operational demands of running a venture firm. Portfolio updates, LP communications, diligence, pipeline tracking, and fundraising support all require coordination across disconnected tools and channels. We wanted a better way to operate, so we began automating the workflows we were already running inside Everywhere Ventures and owning the full technology stack.
That effort has evolved into BUILD with Everywhere, our broader automation platform for investment firms, built by operators inside an active venture fund and informed by real workflows. The goal is to make information easier to access, connect, and put to work.
We’ve spent eight years building relationships and conviction across a global portfolio, and the past year building more of the technology behind that work. With Jelly and BUILD with Everywhere, we’re beginning to extend those efforts to our peers. Less time piecing the picture together equals more time to spend with founders.
P.S. Wondering why we called it Jelly? Think of the initials of the incumbent tool and add your favorite childhood sandwich… 🥜🍇