Legal Agreement

Terms of Service

Last updated: September 2026 · Venture Graph Editorial & Compliance

Editorial Notice & Review Status:This legal document establishes the governing policies for Venture Graph. Our terms and privacy disclosures are regularly reviewed and updated to comply with applicable data protection regulations (including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and CAN-SPAM).

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using Venture Graph (located at venturegraph.me), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these terms, please discontinue your use of the site immediately.

2. Informational & Editorial Purpose (No Investment Advice)

Venture Graph is an independent research publication and index specializing in startup autopsy analysis, venture capital movements, founder lessons, and company failures.

CRITICAL DISCLAIMER:Nothing published on Venture Graph—including our funding alerts, failure case studies, mortality scores, or retrospective commentary—constitutes investment, financial, legal, or tax advice. You should consult qualified professional advisers before making any capital allocation or investment decisions.

3. Intellectual Property Rights

All original commentary, custom taxonomy, investigative reports, code, visual presentation, and database structures are the exclusive intellectual property of Venture Graph and protected by international copyright laws.

Company names, logos, trademarks, and corporate filings referenced in our post-mortems and news reporting are the property of their respective trademark holders and are utilized here under fair use nominative identification for journalistic and reporting purposes.

4. Permitted Use & Scraping Limitations

You are permitted to access, view, and read Venture Graph content for your personal, academic, or internal business research. You agree not to:

Systematically scrape or mass-extract our database without prior written consent from our editorial board.
Engage in any denial-of-service attack, vulnerability scanning, or automated probing of our administration interfaces.
Republish our long-form case studies in their entirety without clear canonical attribution and prior license.

5. Newsletter & User Submissions

When subscribing to our newsletter dispatch, you agree to provide an accurate email address and confirm your consent in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You may terminate your subscription at any time using the one-click unsubscribe link provided in every issue.

6. Limitation of Liability

Venture Graph and its authors, editors, and affiliates provide all content on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. Under no circumstances will Venture Graph be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from your use of or reliance upon any analysis or data published on this website.

7. Governing Law & Contact

These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with applicable governing law without regard to conflict of law principles. For inquiries regarding these terms, please contact:

Venture Graph Legal Desk

Email: legal@venturegraph.me