How the score is built
Two things get measured separately. Which funds already write cheques alongside each other, and how closely what you do matches what a fund says it wants. Neither one is worth much on its own.
18,895 investors. Yours are in there somewhere.
Every one of them scored against your company: who they already invest alongside, what they say they look for, what size cheque they write. You get the top of that list. Reading it is still your job.
60,148
Startups in the graph
18,895
Investors profiled
23
Sectors covered
9
Global regions
How it works
You can see why each fund is on your list.
Each one arrives with the evidence that put it there. If that evidence is thin, skip it. Showing it is the point.
What you see on a match
Shared backers. Sector overlap. Stage, region, the cheque size they usually write. These are not a summary of the score. They are what went into it.
Round by round
Who put money in, at which round, in which year. The same round reported by three sources is merged into one, and each links back to the funds that took part.
What funds say about themselves
Cheque size, stage, whether they lead. Only where a fund actually publishes it, which is about three in four of them.
How well it works
Good enough to shortlist. Not good enough to pick.
We took 228 companies, hid one investor that really had backed each of them, and asked the ranker to find that investor again among 29,877. Here is how it did.
Why that ceiling is structural. Public records show who got money. They never
show who was turned down. With no record of a single rejection there is nothing for a
model to learn a fund's refusal from, and no amount of tuning invents it. What this does
is take you from eighteen thousand funds to a few dozen worth an afternoon of research.
1.4×
Better than ranking funds by how busy they are. The real investor moves from a median
rank of 19,124 to 13,890.
<1%
Fewer than one in a hundred lands inside the top 100. Use the list to narrow the
field, not to pick from it.
228
Company and investor pairs held back from the ranker, each scored against 29,877.
The data
Patchy in places, and here is where.
It comes from public filings and company websites, and it is patchy in places. Below is the share of records that actually carry each field.
Company website
85.7%
Descriptive text
78.4%
Investor terms
75.1%
Sector label
43.1%
Region label
34.4%
Stated check size
23.4%
Sector and region sit lowest because nobody reports them; they are inferred from text. We would not lean on anything under half without opening the record and looking.
Who it's for
Founders and funds, same graph.
For founders
- Rank all 18,895 against your company, instead of working down a list someone else made.
- See who already writes cheques alongside the funds you have met.
- Cut by stage, region and cheque size before you spend a week on emails.
- Start a first message with the evidence already in front of you.
For investors
- Search 60,148 companies by sector, stage, region and what they have raised.
- Follow a company round by round, with the funds that took part in each.
- Look at nine regions, including the ones your deal flow never reaches.
- Find the companies sitting next to the ones your peers already back.
Start from a shortlist.
Accounts are reviewed by hand, so say which side of the table you sit on. Founders and funds both welcome.