Launched on Product Hunt
Hey guys! 👋
Investor Scout is a categorized database of over 52,000 angel investors, venture capitalists, and VC funds.
Stumbling through bottomless Google results, Twitter bios, AngelList & LinkedIn profile, and Crunchbase pages to find the best investors to pitch your startup can take hundreds of hours to do effectively.
Investor Scout aggregates 52k+ investors, their emails, phone numbers, and hundreds of thousands of other data points in one place so you can quickly find the best investors to pitch your startup to + their direct email address so you can spend less time researching and more time actually booking calls, taking meetings, and CASHING CHECKS 🤑
I know this isn't exactly what we're looking for on Indie Hackers, but perhaps at the very least it's a database of people for you to sell a product to, or to use for market research––knowing if investors are interested and starting a relationship before you need capital is a better idea than waiting until you need cash now or you die.
For this update we’ve:
💰 Overhauled our dataset by adding thousands of new investors and spending a ton of money verifying their emails (to minimize bounce rate and save you time)
⚡️ Built out new bulk investor selection tools so you can select up to 50 investors at once instead of one-by-one, and for premium accounts to build unlimited lists and export an unlimited amount of investors
🎁 Added a free plan so you can give Investor Scout a shot without a big commitment
Investor Scout plans start at $69/mo, but we’ve made a special 50% off forever lifetime discount code for early adopters on Indie Hackers: ‘EARLYADOPTERS’. This code makes us the most affordable investor database on the market––this code expires this week so if you want to give us a try, now’s a great time. 🙂
We’d love feedback & ideas on how we can keep improving Investor Scout and make it the best place to raise your seed round! Thanks for reading this 🙏
- Matt & Aaron
Congratulations on the launch! Product Hunt is a great way to gain early visibility, but what happens after launch is often even more important.
The feedback from early adopters can help validate assumptions, refine the product, and identify the features that create the most value. Wishing you continued success as you build on that momentum.
I think, the best way to fundraise if to have a personal intro. Cold emails to investors don't work 🙈
Thanks for commenting!
No, the best way to fundraise is through investors you already have relationships with. Then probably through intro / tapping into someone else who has the relationship.
There are tons of entrepreneurs who don’t have either kind of relationship, and this is more for them
Started this because co-founders & friends have raised through cold email when they had no other shot and wanted to make the whole process easier
Cold email is a part of a larger fundraising strategy everyone who’s raising should be using to maximize their likelihood of raise
Cold email is not a horrible foundation for building relationship with investor if done correctly
I know some founders who have emailed 6000 investors over LinkedIn and close 2 small angel rounds 😅
Do you have any success rate or money-back guarantee if you none of the investors from your pool participates in the round? Traditional investment brokers would take a margin on the deal instead of charging for opening up their contact book. This actually still happens here in London with the start-ups; senior guys trying to find investors for you.
I'm more of a fan of getting introduced and building the relationship in person from scratch. But some sort of guarantee would be attractive.
Thanks for the comment! At the moment we don’t, we’re simply an address book on steroids, but we’re looking into building a more sophisticated brokerage service that taps into this
Okay cool - that’d be sick!