Radical transparency

Sources you can inspect. Scores you can challenge.

VentureSift publishes what it collects, why it uses it, and the reuse rule applied to every provider.

16Approved

Official or open sources cleared for the production pipeline.

1Attribution required

Permitted with provider-specific attribution or display conditions.

EU

TED Europe

Approved

Explicit buyer needs backed by public procurement budgets.

Data consulted
Published procurement titles, descriptions, dates, locations and declared values.
Commercial-use rule
Published notices are open for analysis and commercial value-added reuse.
Attribution
Each notice links to the official TED publication.
Licence / terms
EU open-data reuse
SO

Stack Overflow

Attribution required

Recurring technical questions and unresolved developer pain.

Data consulted
Question titles, tags, views, votes, answer counts and original links.
Commercial-use rule
Commercial reuse is possible only with the required content attribution.
Attribution
Displayed questions retain source, author when available, and original URL.
Licence / terms
CC BY-SA / Stack Exchange terms
BO

BODACC

Approved

Company creation, change and distress signals by activity and region.

Data consulted
Aggregated business-event category, activity, region and publication date.
Commercial-use rule
Open public data; personal data is excluded from VentureSift signals.
Attribution
Signals link to the official BODACC notice; no personal profile is built.
Licence / terms
Licence Ouverte 2.0
CS

CISA KEV

Approved

Confirmed exploitation in the wild and urgent security remediation needs.

Data consulted
CVE identifier, affected vendor and product, date added, required action and ransomware flag.
Commercial-use rule
Official public JSON catalog; bounded metadata and attribution retained.
Attribution
Every signal names CISA KEV and links to the corresponding NVD record.
Licence / terms
U.S. government public data / CISA website policy
NV

NIST NVD

Approved

Newly disclosed security problems and their measured severity.

Data consulted
Recent CVE descriptions, publication dates, CVSS scores and severity.
Commercial-use rule
Official API; public metadata reused with NIST attribution and rate limits.
Attribution
Every vulnerability links to its official NVD detail page.
Licence / terms
NIST public data
US

Grants.gov

Approved

Public funding priorities that reveal institutionally backed demand.

Data consulted
Open and forecast funding titles, agencies, dates, statuses and listing codes.
Commercial-use rule
Official public search API; no authentication or page scraping used.
Attribution
Every funding signal links to its Grants.gov opportunity page.
Licence / terms
U.S. government public information
EU

EUR-Lex

Approved

Regulatory change that can create new compliance and workflow needs.

Data consulted
Titles, summaries, publication dates and links for EU acts and proposals.
Commercial-use rule
Official RSS metadata reused with source acknowledgement.
Attribution
Every regulatory signal links directly to EUR-Lex.
Licence / terms
European Commission reuse policy
EU

CORDIS

Approved

EU-funded research projects that reveal emerging investment priorities.

Data consulted
Project titles, identifiers, start dates and published EU funding amounts.
Commercial-use rule
Official public SPARQL endpoint; bounded queries and attribution used.
Attribution
Every project signal links to its official CORDIS page.
Licence / terms
EU linked open data reuse
US

USAspending.gov

Approved

Funded demand from U.S. federal procurement, alongside TED and BOAMP.

Data consulted
Recent federal contract award titles, descriptions, agencies, recipients, amounts and start dates.
Commercial-use rule
Official public search API; no authentication or page scraping used.
Attribution
Every award signal links to its official USAspending.gov award page.
Licence / terms
U.S. government public information
RS

crates.io

Approved

New software supply and release activity in the Rust ecosystem.

Data consulted
New and recently updated Rust crate names, descriptions and download counts.
Commercial-use rule
Official public summary API; bounded metadata and links are retained.
Attribution
Every crate signal links to its crates.io project page.
Licence / terms
crates.io terms
GD

GDELT Project

Approved

Fresh global news coverage signaling public and media interest momentum.

Data consulted
Recent English-language news article titles, source domains, and publication dates matching topic keywords.
Commercial-use rule
Official public DOC 2.0 search API; GDELT data is released for unrestricted reuse of any kind.
Attribution
Every signal links to the original news article and names its source domain.
Licence / terms
GDELT open reuse terms
AX

arXiv

Approved

Fresh AI, security and software-engineering research preprints.

Data consulted
Recent preprint titles, abstracts, categories and publication dates from official arXiv RSS feeds.
Commercial-use rule
Official public RSS feeds; bounded metadata reused with attribution.
Attribution
Every signal links to the original arXiv abstract page.
Licence / terms
arXiv API terms of use

Score anatomy

One deterministic formula for every opportunity.

The total is 30% demand, 25% explicit pain, 20% momentum, 15% competition gap, and 10% confidence. Saturating curves limit viral outliers and recent evidence decays progressively. It is a prioritization signal, never a market-size claim.

30% Demand+25% Pain+20% Momentum+15% Gap+10% Confidence

Scores compare evidence inside VentureSift. They do not guarantee demand, revenue, feasibility, or product-market fit.