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Investor Hunt — A database of 40k+ investors to raise your seed round 💰
Investor Hunt is a database of 40k+ investors that saves you hundreds of hours of research on AngelList, Crunchbase, and LinkedIn trying to find the right investors and their emails. 🚀
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@matthewkulp Thanks Matthew! Alternatives like VC Wiz and Signal conceal direct contact info (and block you from contacting them if you don't have a mutual contact). They also have a limited number of investors, usually with a focus on tech investors in USA/SF.
Investor Hunt has direct contact info and investors from all over the world that invest in all sorts of sectors at different stages.
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Pros:a lot of data
Cons:Imposible to unsubscribe, expensive.
Even if an investor is interested in a startup after being published in the business media, it is not yet a guarantee of a deal. The company itself may not be ready for a partnership. If you speak in the business press and do not prepare for the influx of calls and incoming mail, they can paralyze your work. When I opened my first business, it was an unreal event. But there were some problems with investors, I looked for them for a long time, but all attempts were unsuccessful. Then I was helped by the schwab intelligent portfolio https://haveyourdollarsmakesense... platform, which collected helpful information.
Just a garbage. It is shame it is on the top of the today's list. Most my comments are always positive but this is scraped email db wrapped in a nice template+call to actions buttons. + intercom widget to make some trust.
@dainiskanopa Since when is a database of essential info for fundraising garbage? 😂
I've used AngelList in the past and it gives a great common ground for approaching an investor - its an indication of their willingness to be contacted and interest in funding.
What happens with your product? Presumably the investors are not aware they've been scraped from other platforms for inclusion on yours... how do you suggest founders engage with them to maximise the chance of success? 🤔 @bsmoder @juhaszhenderson
@bsmoder @abadesi Founders should do their due diligence on Investor Hunt to make sure that the investors are relevant, then can use any of the platforms we've linked to to contact them OR (cold) email them directly.
Relevant, polite cold emails work really well for investor discovery and starting relationships (even if they sometimes get a bad rep when abused like spam). For example, I've been able to get in touch with founders at Atomic and eFounders with cold emails.
@bsmoder @abadesi @juhaszhenderson You definitely need the ability for investors to look themselves up + request removal without paying for access. I get enough spam as it is.
@bsmoder @abadesi @rossdcurrie Even easier––investors can just tell us their name in our Intercom and we'll remove them.
🔔 **UPDATE**
We just launched Investor Hunt 2.0, rebranded as Investor Scout. Investor Scout has tons of new features, an updated dataset, and a brand new UI. You can see it here: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
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Hey guys! 👋
Investor Hunt is a categorized database of 40k+ angel investors and venture capitalists. 🤑
Figuring out which investors are likely to be interested in your project and how to get in direct contact with them is a nightmare. All this data is spread out, and finding it pushes you down a rabbit hole of AngelList, personal websites, Crunchbase, and VC fund portfolio pages. All this can take hundreds of hours of research––hours you could be using to *actually* close rounds.
For the last few years while we’ve been fundraising for different projects, we've built out spreadsheets of all the investors we’ve met with (and who we’d want to meet) complete with data like where to best contact them. Over the years, our private lists grew to over a thousand investors.
After building the data engineering tools to make Press Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) and Howler (https://www.howler.media/?ref=in...) possible, we realized it would make perfect sense to use them to grow our lists of investors into a comprehensive all-in-one database.
Investor Hunt is a simple SAAS product that aggregates the names, contact info, investment focuses, and past investments of the best investors in the world in one place. We’ve grown the list to 40k+ investors (~30k of them have emails, and the rest have alternative contact links like Twitter, LinkedIn, and AngelList).
The database is still very much a WIP––we’re constantly enriching data and adding new sources. We’ve been using this ourselves (and have a few beta users), and have found it really useful, and it’s now 10x bigger than other investor database alternatives.
Investor Hunt plans start at $69/mo, but we’ve made a special *50% off forever* lifetime discount code for early adopters on Product Hunt: ‘EARLY-PH’. This code expires this week. 🙂
We’d love feedback––thanks for the time 🙏
- Matt, David, Ermek, & Rashid
@juhaszhenderson Anybody considering using this should know that response rates for cold emails to investors are very low (i.e. < 1%). If you don't personalize the email, it's going to be even lower. So if you're taking all the time to personalize the content of the email, then a small bit of time to find their email address is pretty irrelevant. This product would work great to generically email / spam hundreds of investors, but again, see my first point.
Here's an example of a cold email I sent an investor that got a response. I spent 5 to 10 minutes writing it in a way that was most relevant to the recipient.
Hello [investors name] - I'm Mike and I founded SeekWell. I've been reading [investors blog] since I started the company and I think we'd be a great fit at [firms name].
SeekWell is SQL / Python desktop app for analysts and product managers that is tightly integrated with Google Sheets and Slack. Users can send data from their database to Google Sheets and schedule data to refresh regularly (e.g. every five minutes). SeekWell also builds a shared code repository that lets users find snippets of code their teammates created. The snippets are automatically linked to conversations in Slack which adds context to their code and makes it easy to find in the future.
I know [firms name] values data moats and I believe we're building one with SeekWell. Creating a link between natural language (the Slack conversation) and code will enable us to build models that will automate adhoc analytics and allow non-technical users to get answers by asking questions in natural language.
We are x months in and have X paid users with MRR of $X (+X% MoM). Our paid customers include This Big Co (x employees), That Big Co (x employees), and Another Big Co (x employees). Please let me know if you'd like to chat and thanks again for making [investors blog].
@mike_seekwell Thanks for sharing this Mike! This is a great example of how to properly cold email. I also recommend including follow ups and using rich media like emojis & gifs (arguably less mature, but more authentic/personable).
A note here that the personalizations in this email are variables you could define with a service like MixMax. Having a central place for this data is the best way to build an outreach list so you can then focus on personalizing every bit of outreach––like an assembly line. Way more efficient.
@juhaszhenderson Can you sort by gender? I'm specifically looking for funds that are led by women.
@danatodd Hey Dana! As of now we don't have that data type. It's a little hard to get reliably. We'll be working on that for future versions though––just will take some time.
So I'll echo some of the opinions stated here and add my own little spin. I think this is great in theory and I absolutely get the allure. Fundraising and connecting with investors is such an opaque, mind numbing, and time consuming endeavor that this almost works like a cheat sheet.
My fear is that for just $300 (they could cancel after the first month), a startup, one who might not be ready for the rigors of fundraising now has the names, phone numbers, email addresses, and office addresses of every VC, seed, and angel investor in across many cities. That is both powerful and dangerous in the wrong hands. I know you ask them not to spam these investors but a founder, desperate for cash and hungry to become the next Zuckerberg, isn't going to listen.
Now I might be going too far down the rabbit hole but this could cause investors, the very ones who already get bombarded with enough cold emails and tweets as it is, to become more guarded and not open to anything but warm intros when they start to receive an influx of communications. That hurts the community more than it helps.
With all that being said, I'm sure this will be a success. There are literally thousands of founders who need or more likely want funding and the overwhelming majority of them don't have the connections needed to get those coveted warm intros. Good luck!
As a founder, one of the common problems is lack of time. Reaching out to investors is definitely important and time-consuming. I am glad to see a product that can save founders huge amount of time because at the end of the day, time is the most important asset.
Pros:Saving a lot of time for me.
Cons:not found.
I've reached out to a few investors and have some phone calls setup!
Pros:It saves so much time. Tracking down all this info sucks. It's finally in one easy to see place.
Cons:None so far.
Pretty cool and good layout. BUT isn't that already out there with multiple other approaches? For example GlassDollar (http://glassdollar.com) is really good and free! Either way, will look more into it anyhow. Will need all the help there is for the coming 3-4 months. It's on......
@laurens_laudowicz Great service but they (along with most/all other services) hide direct contact data. We also have 4x as many investors
Investor hunt is a centralized resource to help doers find seed capital. Search is instantaneous and quite useful.
Pros:Clear value proposition, solves a real problem for product people
Cons:Data quality not always 100%
Thanks for the huge discount for PH users!
Pros:Really useful data; Easy-to-use UI with simple design
Cons:None so far
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