Visible for VC funds: why it's our portfolio monitoring pick

Why Visible holds the slot

Chasing portfolio companies for numbers by email doesn't scale. Visible sends recurring and one-time data requests with automated reminders, turns the answers into structured metrics, and calculates fund metrics such as IRR, MOIC, and TVPI from the same data.

Founders aren't asked to pay to report: Visible's Starter plan for founders is free and sends updates to up to 100 investors. On the fund side, Visible lists integrations with Google Sheets, Airtable, and Affinity, our CRM pick.

What it costs a fund

All three investor plans, Essential, Premium, and Enterprise, are custom-priced based on portfolio size and team, through a demo request. We don't quote a number.

Essential covers recurring and one-time requests, custom metrics, Google Sheets and Airtable integrations, dashboards, fund metrics, tear sheets, a data room, and LP reports. Premium adds AI Inbox, which pulls metrics out of founders' emails and files, audit logs, metric alerts, benchmark dashboards, API access, and an MCP server. Enterprise adds SSO, approval workflows, and granular user permissions.

Where Visible falls short

Visible's weak points are price transparency and where its automation starts:

• No published investor prices, which counts against it under our published-pricing criterion.
• API access and the MCP server start on Premium; on Essential, data leaves through Google Sheets and Airtable.
• No keyboard shortcuts are documented.

What would cost Visible the slot

Visible took the slot when Tactyc left the stack (see the eviction record below). If founders were asked to pay to report, or spreadsheet exports moved off Essential, we would reopen the slot. A portfolio monitoring tool with published pricing and an equally easy founder side would get a hearing.