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Know Your VC - Vetted investor reviews from the founders who know them

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Know Your VC is a platform for founders to anonymously or publicly share their experiences with VCs & Angels - both good and bad.

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Anthony Zhang
Maker
Hi 👋🏽 Product Hunt community! I'm Anthony, one of the team members at Know Your VC. My team and I started this project to provide a widely-accessible and safe place for founders to anonymously or publicly share their experiences with VCs & Angels - both good and bad. We believe Know Your VC will truly benefit founders by increasing transparency in the venture world. The platform is still in its early stages so any feedback would be greatly appreciated! My teammates and I will be available all day to answer your questions! 🤗
Jonathan Lee
@anthonyjz17 Congrats Anthony, killing it!
Chris Zioutas
@anthonyjz17 hey! great job there, I will start filling in some info for a few contacts :) Btw would you be interested in sharing the info in bulk? send me an email chriszioutas@datacircle.io
Rachael Norman
This is really high value. Congratulations @anthonyjz17! I am really glad that there is a question about whether or not the investor ever behaved inappropriately. I do not know any women working in tech that have not dealt with inappropriate behavior or overt sexism at some point in the career. I love that founders can privately report issues! Where does your interest in supporting female founders come from and how do you see this evolving?
Anthony Zhang
Maker
@rachaelbn thanks Rachael I'm happy that you like those features! We put a lot of thought in developing this platform to be a place where all founders can feel safe in reporting their experiences. I'm interested in supporting female founders because I believe it's the right thing to do and I want to do my part in helping solve the massive issues of harassment/discrimination in tech.
Misbah Ashraf
@anthonyjz17 Sounds interesting.
Rachael Norman
@anthonyjz17 I am so glad to hear that. Issues like this only change if everyone recognizes their existence and works to make a difference. Glad to see this happening. Beyond the ubiquitous discrimination female founders face, are there other specific issues you are hoping to tackle?
Anthony Zhang
Maker
@rachaelbn another big issue I aim to tackle is the lack of investor knowledge for first-time founders. Being a young founder, I didn't truly know where to start fundraising other than trying to get meetings with big-name VCs. I now know that some of my less well-known investors turned out to provide the greatest value add to my company. The platform will help even the playing field for both big and small name VCs.
Crumple
Really important and necessary service for a startup world. Respect! I would suggest adding something like "Divorce and its consequences", if this happened. The founders need to know how investors behave in such cases. Is it fair, dignified, meanly or absolutely disgusting?
Anthony Zhang
Maker
@iamcrumplecat that would definitely be really useful, thank you for your feedback!
David Carpe
doesn't thefunded.com already do this at scale? they've been around for years gathering reviews of investors. what's the difference in your approach?
Jed Christiansen
@passingnotes From what I've seen, there hasn't been a lot of activity on thefunded.com for many years, and even there the data is sparse/stale.
Anthony Zhang
Maker
@passingnotes great question. You're correct in that they have been around for a while, but our reviews are much more relevant and we have a 5x larger investor database. Also when founders are reporting harassment/discrimination on our platform, they can choose to privately record their experience and not anonymously publish it until others have come forward privately with similar experiences.
Sydney Liu
Congratulations Anthony! I love that you're bringing transparency to a process that desperately needs it!
Steven Zheng
Great timing for this product.
Zack Lee
Maker
@mstevenzheng Thank you for the support! ✨
Laduram Vishnoi
Really good platform for entrepreneur, so they won't waste their time with wrong vc.
Max Zhang
Maker
@laduramvishnoi Glad you're enjoying the platform! Thank you for the support!
James Gibbs
Now all we need is an API, so I can quickly cross reference. :) Great stuff!
Max Zhang
Maker
@jimgibbs Added to our future to-do list. Thanks for the suggestion!
Heidi Lindvall
Love it! I've been waiting for something like this. Really useful for founders!
Max Zhang
Maker
@heidilindvall Thank you for the support! Glad you're enjoying it :)
Justin Winter
Love this @anthonyjz17 it seems more akin to a G2Crowd/Capterra/Siftery for VC's. The flywheel opportunity is getting the VC's to actively promote their scores/profiles. Email signatures, twitter profiles, medium signatures. Maybe appeal to the vanity element with top ten lists or similar based on category, push press to those lists, VC's put in the work to invite their startups to review. Flywheel started. Excited to hopefully track lots of progress!
Anthony Zhang
Maker
@jcwinter I think that's definitely a great idea, we definitely have plans to engage VCs with some of the ideas that you have mentioned. Thank you for the inspiration 😊
Guy Gunaratne
Really useful. Great going guys.
Anthony Zhang
Maker
@guygunaratne thanks! We really hope this will help all founders through their fundraising experiences in the future.
Maxim Leonovich
Ok, we've just launched a product on PH, now it's time to run through the list of investors :) If you manage to maintain a high-quality data, it should be a very useful service.
Shea Rouda
Already digging it 🙌🏼
Shlok Vaidya
Yelp for VCs. Something like this, but specifically for women, behind an identity verification wall could probably take off.
Ian Smith
@shloky an app that lets women rate VCs on how sexist they are...?
Thomas Leitermann
@shloky you mean sth like Bumble.com? ;-)
Shlok Vaidya
@iansmith That's a feature, yes, not the value prop. But a secure/verified environment to compare notes across different self-identifying subgroups seems like a core requirement for something like this to gain traction. Then you can share artifacts/decks, how meetings/pitches wen, who was an idiot/an amazing resource, and who pulled a McClure/Sacca.
Shlok Vaidya
@thomasleiterman If you mean identity verification a la Bumble, yes.
Kevin Newman
Thanks for this resource @anthonyjz17 looks great!
Hunter Owens
Wow, this is fulfilling a solid use case. Thanks for bringing this to life!
Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano
This is cool :) Glad to see the team made it
Richardwerbe
Makes a lot of sense. Great idea!
Maximiliaan Van Kuyk
haha love it. A world with transparency and acceptability is always a better place.
Hasan Murat Akinci
I liked it! very helpful for entrepreneurs. A search/list by location feature would be great. Thanks and good luck guys!