Anna Scherbak

Smart VC Search by Unicorn Nest - A free unique list of relevant VCs for your startup

We've built an algorithm that analyses historical data of 38,000 VC funds and suggests relevant investors for startups (seed, round A, B and C).
Fill in the questionnaire โžก๏ธ Get a list of VCs (incl. decision makers) โžก๏ธ Start investor outreach immediately ๐Ÿš€

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Anna Scherbak
๐Ÿ‘‹ Hey fellow Product Hunters! It's been a while since Unicorn Nest has launched a new product here. Today we are excited to present Smart Search, a recommendation algorithm that picks relevant VCs for you and suggests a list of investors likely to get interested in your startup. ๐Ÿฆ„ WHY? Finding an ideal investor is hard. The number of startups and VCs grow from year to year. ๐Ÿ“ˆ Information is abundant, but is it always reliable? As a human, itโ€™s easy to overlook something important about funds, reach out to the wrong investors or discard the ones that may be a good match. We rely on data and mathematics to compile a list of relevant investors that match your query as closely as possible. ๐Ÿ‘€ You only need to spend 1 minute filing in the questionnaire and you will get a list of VCs that you can use for outreach right away. WHAT? We use an innovative approach, scoring instead of filtering. You only need to fill in the questionnaire. We will search among 300,000+ deals in the database to find the funds investing in startups like yours. The funds are given points each time there's a match with your questionnaire. The more relevant their portfolio is to your startup, the higher the chances they will get on top of the list. ๐Ÿ” The funds are competing to get on your list. HOW is Smart Search different from other investor-picking services? - Advanced industry rules. ๐Ÿ—‚ We give points to funds who invested in closely related verticals. - Sophisticated geography rules. ๐ŸŒ Funds score points not only if they are headquartered in your location, but also if they have decision makers near you, or have portfolio companies in your area. - Prioritization. ๐ŸŽฏ Most likely, you wonโ€™t see a fund that has made 10 investments in your sector last year next to a fund that made 2 investments 5 years ago. This means you can prioritize your work and spend more time researching and finding connections with funds on top of the list. - Active investors. ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป Only those investors that have made at least 1 investment in the last 2 years will appear on the list. Weโ€™ve been experimenting with the algorithm for more than a year and had visible improvements recently. Our recommendations have changed up to 90% due to the latest deal data and AI-optimized algorithm rules. What you can do with us: - get a list of relevant VC investors completely for free - save the funds you like to favorites to check them out later and compare ๐Ÿ“Œ - get a list of all available decision makers in the funds - see contact details of relevant decision makers (GDPR doesnโ€™t allow sharing emails publicly but we can give you email formation rules that you can turn easily into actual emails) - send chosen funds to our email outreach system to start a fundraising-optimized email campaign ๐Ÿ“ฉ Finally, in order to get your list, you need to log in with your LinkedIn account. This is done to avoid platform abuse. We donโ€™t post on your behalf nor have access to any data except your name, photo and email. The first list you get is free. If you want to see advanced data about funds or export the document, you can subscribe and use our special 50% discount code for any of our plans for the Product Hunt community. ๐ŸŽ‰ Extremely eager to hear your questions, comments and suggestions. ๐Ÿ™Œ
Aleks Bochkov
@scherbaque Congrats on the launch! Supporting fellow Ukrainians ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿš€
Anna Scherbak
@bochkovaleks Thanks! Enjoy the service! ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
Levi Gleb Raskin
@scherbaque Wow! Such a great coincidence like a present for Christmas! I will gonna use it for upcoming rounds. Useful and in time!
Anna Scherbak
@_1_ras great to hear it. If you have any questions or suggestions, you can always connect with us.
Firas Abboud
@scherbaque Anything that analyses historical data sounds right to me! Congratulations on the launch!
Sasha Geo
Cool project. Is access from Russia excluded on purpose?
Anna Scherbak
@sasha_geo Unfortunately, we had to restrict some of the regions due to ddos. Try using VPN, I'm sure it'll work.
Sasha Geo
@scherbaque Thank you, I have already started studying your service, just want to understand the reason for inaccessibility from Russia.
Anton Viborniy
Iโ€™m using this tool. It is a good alternative crunchbase
Anna Scherbak
@anton_viborniy Thanks for the comparison. Trying our best!
Yev Podgayetsky
Video, 0:07. Thanks for reminding me how VC fund search looks like sometimes. I definitely want to pick a VC based on the portfolio of their companies, rather than picking them based on their SEO strategy!
Anna Scherbak
@yevgeniypodgayetskiy Thanks a lot! Doing our best! Absolutely correct about SEO.
Oleg Ovsyannikov
Nice stuff. As founder, I use it in addition to my own research
Anna Scherbak
Thanks! Sure, it can greatly power up your research. Also can be a great starting point if you are clueless when beginning your fundraising.
Thusitha Jayasundara
This will be a great product for all type of founders I think. Instead of reaching out for everyone we can decide whom to choose. Great work guys. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ
Anna Scherbak
@thusitha_jayasundara Yep, you can target the ones who have demonstrated interest in startups like yours. Thanks!
Alexander Udodenko
Hey! Our matching questionnaire is startup-centric and I know you've already enjoyed it โœŒ๏ธ But which kind of questionnaire do you prefer?
James Tran
Excellent presentation of this service. Sure to save entrepreneurs a ton of time so they can focus on quality execution on reaching out and getting intros to their list. It would seem also, that likewise VCโ€™s could receive theses matches so that the outreach is not so cold. Rather qualified and warm to begin withโ€ฆ..
Anna Scherbak
@james_tran1 Yep, we are also thinking in this direction. Thanks for feedback, that's what we intend to do!
Vladimir Samoletov
Awesome product! Good luck!
Dheeraj Mehndiratta
Amazing Database. Would love to access.
Anna Scherbak
@dheeraj_mehndiratta Thanks Dheeraj. You can try it out at any moment, the first search is free.
Alexander Udodenko
@dheeraj_mehndiratta thank you for this words! Unicorn Nest is the whole toolset: database โž• recommendation engine โž• investor engagement platform
Misha Iasinskyi
Fantastic effort and great toolset!
Anna Scherbak
@misha_iasinskyi Thank you. Hope to help as many entrepreneurs as possible.
Arsen Kazibekov
Great idea. it will save us a lot of time
Anna Scherbak
@taparchi Thanks! Sure thing. That's what we intended to do โ€” save a lot of time.
Anton Cherkasov
Cool product. So helpful for startups!
Anna Scherbak
@a007mr Glad to hear that. Enjoy!
Anna Scherbak
@volodarik Thanks Alex. Appreciate it! ๐Ÿค
Alex Harris
Much needed!
Anna Scherbak
@alexharris Glad to hear that! ๐Ÿ˜€
Dmytro Korol
Very promising product.
Artรฉm Zhigรกlin
@scherbaque You make dreams come true! :)
Anna Scherbak
@quarklyteam Thanks! Happy to hear that!
Alex Bobniev
A powerful tool for my startup! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€
Anna Scherbak
@redgad Hope to save you a ton of time and nerves!