Fundraising infrastructure for founders and the organizations that support them
Start your raise with the right investors.
Tell us about your company and round. We research the venture market against it, then hand you a ranked target list with the most relevant partners, verified contacts, and the reasoning behind every recommendation.
The difference
A bigger list of investors isn't the answer.
You don't need more names. You need to know which 50 to 150 firms fit your company and round, which partners are most relevant, and why each target deserves your time.
Traditional investor databases give you the market to research. The Startupverse researches the market for you.That is the whole difference between a database and Investor Intelligence.
Most of the market can't write your check.
Stage, sector, geography, check size, investment thesis, and current activity all have to align before a firm becomes a credible target.
Finding names is easy. Knowing who belongs is the work.
A long list without fit analysis only moves the research burden onto you.
The wrong list wastes the raise.
Every hour spent pursuing a false fit is an hour not spent building the right investor relationship.
The Investor Intelligence Engine
Meet the Investor Intelligence Engine.
Built on our vetted venture database, the Engine researches firms and investor profiles against the details of your company and round. It filters out false fits, ranks the strongest targets, identifies the most relevant partners, verifies contact information, and explains every recommendation. Not a list of names. A researched investor strategy for your raise.
A ranked case for where to focus, whom to contact, and why each investor deserves your time.
- Ranked investor targets
- Fit rating
- Fit rationale
- Relevant partners
- Verified contacts
- Firm and deal context
Two ways to use The Startupverse
Built for founders. Scaled through the organizations behind them.
For founders
Build the right investor pipeline for this raise.
Get personalized Investor Intelligence directly, then run the raise from Raise HQ: prioritize targets, manage outreach, and keep every conversation moving.
Explore for foundersFor organizations
Put better fundraising support behind every founder you serve.
Give your team and founders personalized Investor Intelligence, your own relationship context, a co-branded workspace, and program-wide visibility.
Explore for organizationsFor founders
Choose how much of the research you want us to own.
Every option starts with the same Investor Intelligence Engine. What changes is the scope of the research and the level of expert involvement.
Do it with our intelligence
Investor Intelligence
The Engine researches the market and builds your ranked target list. You review the intelligence, choose where to focus, and run the raise inside Raise HQ.
Have us do it for you
Expert-Built Research
A Startupverse fundraising expert operates the Investor Intelligence Engine for you, reviews the results, conducts the additional research your raise needs, and delivers a finished investor target list.
Help me find a way in
Warm-Path Research
We build and review your investor target list, prioritize the top 50 firms, and identify relevant portfolio-company founders who may represent a relationship path into those investors.
Prefer the workspace on its own? Raise HQ starts at $207 for the first three months, then $69 a month. Cancel anytime, with an email before any renewal.
Startupverse for Organizations
World-class fundraising support for every founder you serve. From you.
Give founders personalized Investor Intelligence, a place to run their raise, and the benefit of your organization's investor knowledge, without creating another manual research burden for your team.
- ScalePersonalized investor research across a cohort or portfolio, without rebuilding the work founder by founder.
- Your relationshipsYour investor relationships, previous investments, and portfolio history, layered into the intelligence each founder receives.
- Your name on itA co-branded experience, presented as support from the organization founders already trust.
- Proof for the boardEvery list delivered is logged, so leadership, funders, and boards can see the support your team provides.
Build and share research on a founder's behalf, or give founders direct access to the platform. Plans scale with the number of founders you serve, not the number of staff seats.
“It is also affordable enough to be sustainable for an ESO like ours, and the administrative features give our team visibility into founder engagement and the ability to manage access easily.”
Raise HQ
Turn investor research into a working fundraising pipeline.
Your Investor Intelligence opens inside Raise HQ, where you prioritize targets, manage outreach, and track the raise without rebuilding the work in a spreadsheet.
- A ranked investor pipelineMove recommended firms straight into your pipeline, set priorities, and keep the next step visible. Up to 300 firms.
- Research that stays attachedEach firm's fit rationale, relevant partners, and verified contacts stay connected to the target as the raise moves.
- The full VC Directory, and exportSearch 4,000+ vetted firms beyond your ranked list, and take your research with you as a CSV whenever you need it.
From founders who ran a raise on it
Less time searching. More confidence in the list.
“What stood out most was the quality of the investor research. You can tell it was built by people who understand how venture actually works, not just another scraped database.”
“I spent weeks trying to build my own investor list before realizing how time consuming it was to do properly. The Startupverse delivered a highly targeted list of investors aligned with our stage and sector, including the right partners to reach out to. It saved a huge amount of time and gave us a much stronger starting point for our fundraising process.”
“Using the platform, I added another 100 to 150 relevant investors to my outreach list. More importantly, I was able to score and prioritize them, which helped me narrow my focus to the 50+ investors that were the strongest fit for our round. That saved a tremendous amount of time and made my outreach much more intentional.”
The free VC Directory
A good place to start. Not the whole job.
The free VC Directory is where a raise begins: search 4,000+ vetted venture firms by stage, sector, geography, and thesis, and find the firms worth a closer look. The research is still yours to do. When you want that part handled, Investor Intelligence picks up where the directory leaves off: full profiles, the most relevant partner at each firm, verified contacts, and a ranked list built around your raise.
| What you get | Free directory | Investor Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Search 4,000+ vetted firms. By stage, sector, geography, firm type, and thesis. | Included | Included |
| Firm overview. Thesis, stages, sectors, check range, website. | Included | Included |
| Saved firms | Up to 75 | Up to 300 |
| Pipeline board. Track your saved firms by stage. | Included | Included |
| Full firm profiles. Investor roster, fund size and vintage, notable exits, fit analysis. | Not included | Included |
| Partner names, roles, and backgrounds | Not included | Included |
| Verified partner emails | Not included | Included |
| Ranked target list. 50 or up to 150 firms, with fit ratings and the reasoning. | Not included | Included |
| Contacts in your pipeline, and CSV export | Not included | Included |
Investor Intelligence plans include Raise HQ and open 75 new firm profiles and 50 verified contacts a month. Every firm on your ranked list is open from day one, contact included.
Playbooks, insights and resources for venture-backed founders.
Curated guidance from the operators, partners, and specialists who shape how venture-backed companies grow.
Know who belongs in your raise before you send the first email.
A ranked investor target list built around your company and round, or the same capability for every founder your organization serves.