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How aVenture Investment Company collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects personal information.
Version: 0.5
Effective: September 25, 2026
Last updated: September 25, 2026
Privacy contact: [email protected]
This Privacy Policy explains how aVenture Investment Company (“aVenture,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects personal information when you use our websites, applications, research tools, communications, and related services (collectively, the “Services”).
aVenture Investment Company is incorporated in Delaware, qualified to do business in California, and headquartered in San Francisco.
Mailing address: 582 Market St Ste 805, San Francisco, CA 94104
Email: [email protected]
Contact form: the contact form
This policy covers personal information processed through the Services. It does not govern a third party's own services or privacy practices, even when we link to or integrate with them.
Our work involves two materially different categories of information:
The same information can fall into both categories depending on its source, context, and use. When that happens, we evaluate the information according to the context in which we collected and use it, applicable law, safety considerations, and the rights described below.
Depending on how you interact with the Services, we may collect the following categories of User Data:
Please do not include highly sensitive personal information in prompts, files, forms, or other submissions unless it is necessary for your request and you are authorized to provide it.
Public Research Data may include names, professional biographies, employment and association information, company roles, public contact or social links, education, location at a city or region level, investment activity, financing information, public statements, and other business or professional information.
We compile this information from public sources: government and regulatory records; company, fund, accelerator, and professional websites, including profiles that people publish about themselves; and news coverage, blogs, and other publications. Web research and crawling services retrieve these public pages for us. We add corrections that users or the subjects of the research submit only when public sources support them. We may derive classifications, summaries, comparisons, and other research from those sources.
We believe this information is “publicly available” or “lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern,” which California law excludes from “personal information” (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(v)(2)). Under that law, publicly available information includes information lawfully made available in federal, state, or local government records; information a business has a reasonable basis to believe was lawfully made available to the general public by the person or from widely distributed media; and information someone the person shared it with makes available, when the person did not restrict it to a specific audience.
Public Research Data is displayed publicly and provided to users of the Services as part of our research products. aVenture does not believe it is a “data broker” as California law defines that term (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.99.80), and it does not sell User Data.
We collect information:
We may use personal information to:
The Services use artificial intelligence, machine-learning, search, embedding, reranking, transcription, computer-vision, and related systems. To answer a request or operate these features, we may send our inference gateway or a provider the prompt, question, instructions, selected Public Research Data, retrieved web or database context, images, files or content you submit, and technical metadata needed to process and secure the request.
Providers used for these functions include, but are not limited to, Researchly, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Google, DigitalOcean, and Weights & Biases. The specific provider can vary by feature, model availability, quality, reliability, security, and configuration. We may also use self-hosted or other third-party models and infrastructure.
Do not submit confidential, regulated, or sensitive information to an AI feature unless the feature is intended for it and you have the right to do so. AI output may be incomplete or inaccurate and should be independently verified before consequential use.
We use provider configurations and agreements intended to restrict an AI provider's independent use of User Data, except as allowed by our agreement with that provider, your instructions, or applicable law. Provider retention and processing can differ by service and configuration.
How aVenture uses your requests to improve the Services. aVenture may review and evaluate your prompts, questions, results, and interaction records to improve our research processes, prompts, and AI models, including through evaluation, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and retraining. If your organization has a signed agreement with aVenture that provides on-premises deployment, zero data retention, or other data-use restrictions, we follow that agreement instead.
We may use AI observability and evaluation services, such as Langfuse or Weights & Biases, to record model, tool, prompt, response, usage, cost, error, and trace information. We configure these systems to limit unnecessary data where practical, but their records may still contain personal information included in an input, retrieved context, tool result, or model output.
aVenture's AI research agent is provided by Researchly, a related entity of aVenture. It runs inside the aVenture Research apps for macOS, iPhone, and iPad, and at researchly.chat. When you use Researchly through aVenture, this section describes how aVenture and Researchly handle your information. The Researchly Privacy Policy also applies to Researchly's processing.
Information that moves between aVenture and Researchly:
Information Researchly collects:
Researchly's service providers: Researchly discloses information only to providers used by the feature you select or enabled for the deployment. Current examples are:
Researchly does not sell personal information for money and does not intentionally use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Its Simple Analytics integration respects a browser Do Not Track signal.
Shared and public chats. You control whether a Researchly chat is private, shared, or public. Anyone with a shared chat's link can view and continue it. Anyone can view a public chat, and search engines may index it. Deleting or changing a shared or public chat may not remove copies already made by people who accessed it or retained by search engines.
Retention and deletion. Researchly keeps account information while your account is active and for a reasonable period afterward for security, fraud prevention, legal, and recordkeeping purposes. It keeps chats, uploads, research data, and AI outputs until you delete them, request account deletion, or they are no longer needed to provide the service. It keeps saved provider credentials until you remove them, delete the associated configuration, or request account deletion; clearing browser storage removes browser-local credentials. Analytics, diagnostic, and security records follow the applicable provider settings. You can delete chats in Researchly, and send privacy requests about Researchly data to [email protected].
We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients for the purposes described in this policy:
We select and manage service providers using protections appropriate to the information and service involved and, where applicable, require them to process personal information for the contracted service and protect it consistently with our instructions and applicable law.
The vendor names above are current examples, not a permanent or exhaustive list. We may add, replace, or discontinue providers as our Services and operations change. The recipient categories, purposes, and data practices described in this policy remain controlling. If a provider change creates a material new use or disclosure of personal information, we will update this policy and provide any additional notice or choice required by law.
We use cookies, local storage, pixels, server logs, and similar technologies to keep users signed in, remember preferences, secure the Services, understand usage, diagnose problems, and measure communications or campaigns.
Browser controls and extensions can block analytics or delete cookies, but blocking cookies may prevent sign-in or other features from working. This website's browser analytics scripts load for every visit, including when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. You may submit an opt-out request using the contact methods below; we assess requests under applicable law.
We do not sell User Data for money. You may ask us to stop disclosing your User Data to advertising or analytics providers by emailing [email protected] or using the contact form.
aVenture is based in the United States. We do not direct the Services to people in the European Union or the United Kingdom, and we do not distribute the aVenture apps in the EU or UK App Store storefronts. For these reasons, aVenture does not believe it is subject to the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation. At its current size and level of activity, aVenture also does not believe it is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act. We comply with privacy laws that apply to businesses regardless of size, such as the California Online Privacy Protection Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, and state data-breach notification laws.
We offer the choices below to everyone, without requiring you to establish that a particular law applies. This policy does not waive rights that applicable law gives you.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for using these choices.
Where applicable law provides them, you may also have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of personal information; object to or limit certain processing; opt out of certain disclosures or profiling; withdraw consent; or appeal a decision on a privacy request. Use the contact methods below to exercise those rights.
You can:
To make a request we cannot handle through your account, email [email protected] or use the contact form. Identify the account or interaction involved. We may verify your identity before acting on a request. Section 10 explains what we keep after account deletion.
We make Public Research Data available because accurate public information about companies, investors, and the people who run and fund them serves the public interest. We do not delete accurate information from public sources on request; we correct it.
Corrections. If information about you or your organization is inaccurate, outdated, misleading, or missing important context, submit the correction and supporting sources through the request data updates form. Anyone can submit a correction. We review every request, and when independent sources corroborate the change, we update the record.
Nonpublic information. If you have reason to believe that nonpublic personal information about you appears in Public Research Data, meaning information that did not come from a public source described in Section 3, send a removal request through the request data updates form or to [email protected]. Identify the specific information you want removed, where it appears (the page address and the field or text), and why you believe it is not public. We act on the specific information a request identifies, and we remove information that we cannot trace to a public source.
We also limit or remove specific information when publishing it creates a credible safety risk, when the law requires it, or when it is materially false or misleading and cannot be corrected.
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy. The period depends on the nature of the information and may include the time needed to provide an account or requested service; maintain research integrity and source provenance; resolve disputes; prevent abuse; comply with legal, tax, accounting, or reporting obligations; and enforce agreements.
When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we delete, deidentify, or aggregate it, subject to limited backup, archival, legal-hold, security, and provider-retention requirements.
After you delete your account:
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
aVenture is based in the United States. We and our providers may process information in the United States and other countries whose data-protection laws differ from those where you live. Where required, we use appropriate measures for cross-border transfers.
The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact [email protected] so we can investigate and take appropriate action.
We may update this policy as the Services, providers, and law change. We will post the updated policy here, revise the “Last updated” date, and preserve a summary of material changes below. If a change materially affects how we use or disclose previously collected personal information, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent when required by law.
Questions and privacy requests can be sent to:
aVenture Investment Company
582 Market St Ste 805
San Francisco, CA 94104
[email protected]
Contact form