What are venture capital communities?

Communities for venture capitalists, aspiring VCs, and founders trying to understand how VC works. LinkedIn and Slack host professional networks for LPs and fund managers, with more general discussion on Reddit and Discord covering fund dynamics, term sheets, and the state of the funding environment.

Where do most venture capital communities live?

Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (27% of 26 listings).

Are most of these communities free?

73% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.

How big is a typical venture capital community?

Among listings with public size data, the average is 222K members and the median is 1K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.

What do these communities usually include?

Newsletter is the most common (58%). Others that show up often include live chat, online/offline events, and forum.

How does Hive Index collect this data?

Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.

Where can I see the full list?

The full directory is on Hive Index's Venture Capital topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

Venture Capital Communities Report: Stats, Platforms,...

Executive Summary

We analyzed 26 venture capital communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.

The big picture: venture capital communities are broad and fragmented, with many small groups and a few very large outliers.

Source: Hive Index community database · Updated 2024-04-04

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Communities: 26
Platforms: 7
Avg members: 222K
Median members: 1K

Where Venture Capital Communities Are Hosted

Independent Platforms
7(27%)
Slack
6(23%)
LinkedIn
4(15%)
Discord
3(12%)
Intros AI
1(4%)
Facebook
1(4%)
Reddit
1(4%)

Format mix

Chat communities
9(35%)
Forum / feed-based
9(35%)
Other platforms
8(31%)

Chat communities is most common (35%), but forum / feed-based is also well represented (35%).

Independent Platforms leads, but Slack and LinkedIn also represent meaningful shares.

Audience Size & Access

Community size

Tiny
<20 members
2(8%)
Small
20-100 members
1(4%)
Medium
100-1,000 members
7(27%)
Large
1,000-10,000 members
6(23%)
Huge
10,000-100,000 members
4(15%)
Massive
100,000-1M members
1(4%)
Gigantic
1M+ members
1(4%)

4 communities have unknown member counts.

Free vs paid

The average is much higher than the median (222K vs 1K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.

How Venture Capital Differs From Other Categories

Venture Capital is less free-to-join, smaller, and more paid or gated, compared with typical Hive Index topics.

Metric	Venture Capital	Hive Index average
Free to join	73%	85%
Median members	1K	25K
Average members	222K	669K
Paid or apply-to-join	27%	15%
Live chat	46%	38%
Discord share	12%	16%

Feature Mix

Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.

Common Features

Newsletter
58%
Live Chat
46%
Online/Offline Events
46%
Forum
42%
Job Board
38%
Requires Application
23%
Courses
15%
Member Perks
15%

Niche Features

Pairing
12%
Paid Community
8%
Token
4%
Tools
4%

Newsletter is the most common feature (58%).

What Visitors Click

Outbound clicks / mo: 126

Platform supply vs. clicks

Platform	Communities	Share of communities	Outbound clicks	Share of clicks
Independent Platforms	7	27%	5	4%
Slack	6	23%	78	68%
LinkedIn	4	15%	9	8%
Discord	3	12%	9	8%
Intros AI	1	4%	5	4%
Facebook	1	4%	7	6%
Reddit	1	4%	1	1%

Share is calculated within this topic.

Slack gets 68% of clicks but only 23% of listings, so visitors click it more than you'd expect from supply alone.

Most-clicked formats

Chat communities
87(76%)
Other platforms
14(12%)
Forum / feed-based
13(11%)

Most-clicked features

Job Board
90(79%)
Live Chat
88(77%)
Online/Offline Events
79(69%)
Newsletter
78(68%)
Pairing
72(63%)
Requires Application
68(60%)

Most-clicked size ranges

Large
68(60%)
Medium
21(18%)
Huge
13(11%)
Tiny
6(5%)
Gigantic
2(2%)

Top-clicked listings

Confluence.VC
55(48%)
Flyover Tech
9(8%)
EVCA
8(7%)

Most clicks go to chat communities and other platforms communities.

Trends

Founded year

2001

2005

2011

2015

2016

2017

2020

2021

2022

2023

10 communities have no founding year on file.

Most listed groups were founded around 2020.

Community Quality & Ratings

Only 1 community has ratings so far, so read this as a small sample.

5.0 average rating across 1 community.

Rated examples

F6S
Independent Platforms · 5.0 stars · 4.6M members

Methodology & FAQ

Methodology

This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Venture Capital. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.

•This is a smaller slice of Hive Index's database, so read trends as directional.
•Last updated 2024-04-04

FAQ

: Communities for venture capitalists, aspiring VCs, and founders trying to understand how VC works. LinkedIn and Slack host professional networks for LPs and fund managers, with more general discussion on Reddit and Discord covering fund dynamics, term sheets, and the state of the funding environment.
: Independent Platforms is the most common platform in this report (27% of 26 listings).
: 73% are free to join. The rest require payment, an application, or both.
: Among listings with public size data, the average is 222K members and the median is 1K. The median is usually the better signal for a typical group because a few large ones inflate the average.
: Newsletter is the most common (58%). Others that show up often include live chat, online/offline events, and forum.
: Listings are submitted by community builders and researchers, reviewed for relevance, and updated with platform, feature, member, review, and traffic data where available.
: The full directory is on Hive Index's Venture Capital topic page, where you can filter by platform, size, features, and more.

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