How we check
Method last updated: September 2026
We check published funding terms against the programme’s own website and link to the source. If a figure is not published, we say so.
What "Checked · October 2026" means
In that month, the figures shown for that entry were found on the organisation's own website.
An entry without the line has not cleared a check in the current round. That is usually a technical reason, not a doubt: many sites render entirely in JavaScript or block automated reading, so they have to be read by hand. We would rather show no line than a line we cannot stand behind.
What counts as a source
One thing only: the organisation's own website. Not a press release about them, not a funding database, not a news article, and never our own estimate. If a fund's site does not state its ticket size, this map says the ticket size is not published — it does not fill the gap.
Some entries are on the map for a second reason: a Gulf limited partner names the fund on the LP's own site. That backing is shown as the LP's own word, and nothing more is inferred from it.
What we check
Every amount, equity condition, eligibility rule, status and deadline we publish is pulled out of the entry automatically and searched, word for word, on the source — in every spelling the same value can take. KWD 500K is also looked for as 500,000 and 500 thousand; 29 Sep 2026 also as September 29, 2026. Money, deadlines and eligibility count as critical, because a founder acts on them.
How often
- Every day — every application link and every published deadline on the map is opened and checked, and a slice of the programme pages is compared with its source, figure by figure.
- Every three weeks — those daily slices have covered every programme page.
- Every month — from the 1st, every entry is re-read against the organisation's own website. The "Checked" month moves only where that check found the figures.
When something does not match
- The source says something different. The map is corrected within a day, to the source's own wording.
- The claim is nowhere on the source. The figure is removed. A number we cannot show you does not stay on this map.
- The source cannot be read automatically. It goes to a manual check before anything is changed — an automated flag on its own never edits an entry.
Where we can still be wrong
An organisation can leave an outdated number standing on its own site, and to us that still reads as the published figure. Conditions written in prose — who exactly qualifies, what counts as a local entity — cannot be verified by matching text, and are read by a person. And an entry checked in one month can change the next. If a decision depends on it, open the source: every entry links to it.
Found something wrong?
Every entry on the map has a Suggest edit button, or write to hello@gulfpitch.com. Corrections that come with a link to the organisation's own page are applied the same day.