Find Every Portfolio Company of an Investor, Then the People Inside

To find every portfolio company of an investor, run Cargo’s theirStack.searchCompanies with the investor’s name in company_investors_partial_match_or: each company comes back with its domain, stage and full investor list, at 0.5 credits a company. Then pass the domains to aiArk.searchPeople to list the decision-makers inside them, at 0.05 credits a person.

This is a go-to-market list built around a relationship rather than a firmographic filter: an investor who already backs a customer of yours, an accelerator batch, a fund whose companies share a stack. The list is also what you take to the investor when you ask for introductions. The find-portfolio-companies skill runs the same job.

What it costs, from the code #

Both bill per record returned, so limit is the bill. A 140-company portfolio is 70 credits; five decision-makers at each is another 35.

Run it #

1. Install and sign in

npm install -g @cargo-ai/cli
cargo-ai login --email you@company.com                 # sends a code
cargo-ai login --email you@company.com --code 123456   # creates the account on first use

No browser step, so a coding agent can run this itself. A new account starts with 100 free credits and no card.

2. Pull the portfolio

cargo-ai orchestration action execute \
  --action '{"kind":"connector","integrationSlug":"theirStack","actionSlug":"searchCompanies"}' \
  --data '{"fields":{"company_investors_partial_match_or":["Sequoia"]},"limit":20}' \
  --wait-until-finished

company_investors_partial_match_or keeps companies where any investor name contains the text, so Sequoia also catches Sequoia Capital India. Use company_investors_or for an exact name. For Y Combinator, "only_yc_companies": true filters on the batch directly, and each company comes back with its yc_batch. Narrow further in the same fields object: funding_stage_or, min_employee_count, company_country_code_or.

Pull 20 first, read them, then raise limit (up to 500 per call) once the list looks right.

3. Find the people inside

cargo-ai orchestration action execute \
  --action '{"kind":"connector","integrationSlug":"aiArk","actionSlug":"searchPeople"}' \
  --data '{
    "companyInfo": {"domain_or": ["northwind.example", "tailspin.example"]},
    "jobRole": {"seniority_or": ["c_suite", "vp", "director"], "department_or": ["sales", "sales_operations"]},
    "limit": 50
  }' \
  --wait-until-finished

seniority_or and department_or take fixed values (founder, c_suite, vp, director, head, manager, and departments such as sales, marketing, finance, operations). Titles in plain text go in jobRole.title_or. limit goes up to 2,000.

What comes back #

The people search returns no email. To reach them, the next step is finding and verifying their work emails.

Frequently asked questions #

Related: Track funding rounds and find the companies that just raised, Build a TAM list by industry, headcount and geography.