If you care about academic research on venture capital, your options have been: search Google Scholar every few days, set up keyword alerts, or hope someone tweets the right paper. All of those miss things. Preprints don't show up in alerts. Keyword matching is blunt. And nobody has time to check ten different sources.
So we built thescienceofvc.com, a free, public site that aggregates academic papers on venture capital, private equity, angel investing, founder dynamics, and related topics. It pulls from dozens of sources and uses the Paperzilla pipeline to find the signal in the flood.
Right now it tracks 8 topics across the VC lifecycle, from fund formation and sourcing to structuring, monitoring, and exits. Out of thousands of screened papers, about 2.2% surface as live signals. That's the whole point: you check one site instead of ten.
It's free, so it doesn't include everything Paperzilla offers. No email digests, no RSS feeds, no personalized recommendations. Just a clean dashboard of what's new and relevant.
We built this partly as an experiment. VC research is scattered across economics, finance, decision science, and management journals. We wanted to see if the Paperzilla pipeline could pull it all together for a niche field. Early days, but we think it works.
What's next: another free public site is in the works, this time focused on AI for Science. If you have ideas for other fields that need this, email mark@paperzilla.ai.