Last mentioned: Mar 3, 2026
First Annual Report Due
Firms must submit their first comprehensive demographic report based on 2025 investment activity.
Registration Deadline
Covered entities must register with the DFPI via the VCC Registration Portal.
Data Collection Period Begins
Firms must begin tracking demographic data for all investments made throughout the 2025 calendar year.
California’s Fair Investment Practices by Venture Capital Companies Law (FIPVCC) is entering its first active compliance phase, requiring firms to register and report founder demographic data. With deadlines starting in March 2026, the law applies to any venture firm with a California nexus, signaling a major shift toward regulatory transparency in private markets.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Senate Bill 164 across our finance coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running finance beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Senate Bill 164 was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |