Investor Intelligence for founders
Know exactly who to pitch, and why.
Tell the Engine about your company and round. It researches 4,000+ venture firms and 15,000+ investor profiles against your profile, then hands you a ranked target list: the firms that fit, the reasoning, the most relevant partner at each one, and a verified contact. Start outreach the same day.
Why raises stall
Three things break most fundraises. All three are inputs.
Most founders spend the first two months of a raise emailing firms that were never going to write the check.Investor Intelligence fixes the inputs before the first email goes out.
You're going after the wrong funds.
A fund that only writes $5M checks will take your meeting and never write the $500K one. Fit is stage, sector, check size, and whether they have money to deploy this year.
You don't have nearly enough in your pipeline.
Rounds close on volume. A spreadsheet of thirty names runs out before the first no.
You're pitching investors who can't deploy capital.
Plenty of firms on a scraped list raised their last fund years ago and are out of money. They'll still take the call.
How it works
Your raise goes in. The right investors come out.
The Investor Intelligence Engine researches the whole venture market against your company and round, keeps the firms that hold up on the details, ranks them, and finds the most relevant partner at each. Six beats, below.
What you receive
Every firm on your list arrives researched.
One target from an example list, and what each part of it means.
- Firm
- Tulsa, OK · Seed, Series A · $250K to $3M checks
- Why this firm fits
- Leads seed in your sector, and your round sits inside their check range.
- Most relevant partner
- Michael Basch, Founder and General Partner
- Verified contact
- Direct email on file, verified
- Context
- Fund details, notable exits, and recent activity, open in full
- Fit rating
- A 0 to 100 score of how likely a firm is to write your check, from its thesis, stage and check size, recent deals, and whether it has money to deploy. Only firms above the bar are ever delivered.
- Why this firm fits
- The reasoning, written out for your company: what matched, and what to lead with when you reach out.
- Most relevant partner
- The person at the firm most likely to lead your deal, with their background, focus, and prior investments.
- Verified contact
- A direct address for the partner, checked against a verification service before it reaches you. Where no verified address exists, you see that plainly instead of a guess.
- Firm and deal context
- Fund size and vintage, check range, notable exits, and recent activity, open in full for every firm on your list.
- Add to pipeline
- One click moves the firm into Raise HQ with its reasoning, partner, and contact attached, so the raise runs from one place.
For 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.
Side by side
Compare the four plans.
Every plan runs on the same Engine and includes Raise HQ. The difference is how much of the list you get, and whether an expert reviews it.
Scroll sideways to compare the plans.
| Feature | Raise HQ$207 first 3 months | Target 50$499 one-time | Full Raise$999 one-time | Expert-BuiltFrom $1,299 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The list | ||||
| Investor Intelligence run | Buy one anytime | 1 run, top 50 | 1 run, up to 150 | 1 run, up to 150, expert-reviewed |
| Ranked by fit, with the reasoning written out | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Partner contact for every firm on your list, verified | Not included | All 50 | All 150 | All 150, checked by hand |
| Scoped with you, every firm reviewed by hand | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Additional runs | In the app | In the app | In the app | In the app |
| The workspace | ||||
| Raise HQ included | 3 months | 90 days | 6 months | 6 months |
| Then | $69/mo | $69/mo | $69/mo | $69/mo |
| Full directory of US venture firms, maintained weekly | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Your list's firms, open in full from day one | Not included | All 50 | All 150 | All 150 |
| More firms to open in full, each month | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 |
| Extra contact unlocks, each month | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Pipeline with statuses, notes, and CSV export | 300 firms | 300 firms | 300 firms | 300 firms |
| Cancel anytime, with an email before any renewal | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Get started | Start Raise HQ | Buy Target 50 | Buy Full Raise | Talk to us |
- Investor Intelligence run
- The Engine reads your fundraising profile, scores every firm in the directory against it (stage, sector, check size, dry powder, geography), and ranks the ones most likely to write your check. Each firm comes with the reason it fits and the partner to contact.
- Fit
- A 0 to 100 score of how likely a firm is to write your check. Only firms above the bar are ever delivered.
- Verified email
- A direct address for the partner, checked against a verification service before it reaches you. Where no verified address exists, you see that plainly instead of a guess.
- Opened in full
- Seeing a firm in full: thesis, fund details, the partner roster, and your fit analysis. An opened firm stays open. Firms on your list are open from the start and never count.
- Additional runs
- Another Investor Intelligence run that returns the next-best firms, skipping everything already on your lists. Available in the app whenever you want one.
Choosing
Which option is right for me?
My round and my targets are straightforward.
Most are. Run Investor Intelligence yourself: fill in your profile, get your list on your own schedule, and start outreach the same day. Target 50 or Full Raise, depending on how much of the list you want.
Self-serve still puts the full Engine to work for you, across 4,000+ venture firms and 15,000+ investor profiles.
See the optionsI want help scoping it, and a human review of the results.
Expert-Built Research. We scope the raise with you, run the Engine against that brief, then review every firm and every contact by hand. You are paying for our time and our judgment on investor research: the review that takes a very good list to an excellent one.
Expert-Built ResearchMy raise is more complex.
Strategics, a narrow sector, an unusual structure, several rounds to plan at once. We work with founders like this at higher levels of engagement. Read how custom lists work and send a booking inquiry, and we'll talk it through.
Custom lists and bookingRaise 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.”
Questions
Real questions, straight answers.
How does an Investor Intelligence run work?
You fill in a short profile: stage, sector, check size, geography, timeline, traction. The Engine then researches every firm in our data set against it, across every data point we hold: thesis, stage and check size, fund vintage and dry powder, recent deals, portfolio, the partners and what each has led. It goes deep on the firms that hold up and delivers your list ranked by fit, each firm with the reasoning written out and the partner to contact. Target 50 delivers your top 50 with 90 days of Raise HQ; Full Raise delivers every strong fit, up to 150, with 6 months. Contacts for every firm on your list are included.
What's included with the partner contacts?
Each partner profile shows their direct email when we have it, LinkedIn, X, operator background, prior firms, focus stages and sectors, and the deals they've led. Emails are validated where possible. These are the people who lead deals, not info@ inboxes.
Can I get more firms later?
Yes. A re-run finds the next-best 50 that weren't on your earlier lists, for $499. Only strong fits are ever delivered, so a second list is next in line, never filler.
What happens after the included period?
After your term the workspace continues at $69 a month: the directory, your pipeline, your list, and every contact you've unlocked stay exactly where they are. We email you a week before it renews. Cancel anytime from your account page and nothing more is charged; you keep access through whatever you've already paid for.
How is this different from PitchBook?
PitchBook sells data, and it's built for institutional analysts at tens of thousands a year. We sell answers to the questions a fundraising founder actually has: which firms fit my company and round, who at each firm should I talk to, and why. That means extensive research against an extensive data set, ranked for your raise, from $499.
Why pay for this if I can scrape Crunchbase or LinkedIn for free?
Crunchbase is built for people selling to startups, and LinkedIn is built for everyone. Our data set is proprietary and focused exclusively on investors who write checks into US-based companies, and our research engine works every firm in it against your company and round. What comes back is a ranked list with the reasoning and the right partner at each firm, ready for outreach, in place of weeks of scraping that ends in a list of firms that mostly can't write your check.
Do you offer refunds?
No. This is research, and the value is delivered in full the moment your list arrives, so there's nothing to return. We stand behind the quality of the work: if something in your list is wrong or missing, email tyler@thestartupverse.com and we'll make it right.
What if I'm pre-seed or just starting to think about raising?
Use it now. Investor relationships are best built well before you need the check, and your list shows you exactly which firms and partners are worth building them with. The one reason to wait is if you're still deciding whether venture capital is the right path at all. Commit to that first, or get to the point where it's more likely than not, and then run your list.
Can my whole team use one account?
Each account is set up for one founder. A co-founder can sign up separately. If your team needs shared access, email us and we'll work it out.
Book a 15-minute call with our founder. A few quick questions first, so the call is worth your time.
Your next ninety days don't have to look like the last ninety.
A ranked target list built around your company and round, with the reasoning and the contacts. From $499.