World-class fundraising support for every founder you serve. From you.
Startupverse for Organizations is the operating system your team uses to put personalized investor research and real fundraising tools behind every founder you serve. We do the heavy lifting. All of it carries your name.
You want more funded founders. Your resources are finite.
Whether your return comes from portfolio exits or your impact report, more of your founders successfully raising is the outcome that matters. And giving each one real fundraising support has never been something a small team could actually do.
What founders spend hand-building an investor list alone: researching firms, guessing at fit, chasing dead ends. No program can pour that into every portfolio company. So founders do it badly, or don't do it at all.
Your warm intros and known investors are real advantages, and they still cover a fraction of the market. The right lead for a founder's round is often a firm nobody on your team has met.
You know founders got value from your program. Proving it is another thing. There's no record of what support each founder received, and nothing quantitative for the board, your funders, or your annual report.
An army of fundraising research analysts: the 200-hour job, done for every founder you serve, with your organization's name on the result.
A branded investor list, in minutes
One of your founders is raising. Here's how your team hands them a personalized list of best-fit investors.
Company, round, stage, sector, geography, check size. Two minutes per founder.
The platform surfaces the firms most likely to fund that specific company, ranked with reasons.
Remove any weak fits. The relationship statuses your team set at onboarding are already on every matched firm: who you know, who funded your alumni.
"Prepared by your organization, powered by The Startupverse." A polished report or share link, under your name.
Every list delivered is logged. Support per founder, per program, ready for your board and funders.
Founders get world-class investor research from the people they already trust: you.
It works whether founders log in or not
Same platform, one price, and your organization gets the credit either way. Choose per founder, based on your capacity and how your organization works.
Give founders the platform
Founders get full access under your organization's brand: the directory curated by your team, your relationship tags rendered on every firm, matched investor runs for their company, verified contacts, and pipeline tools to run the raise.
Best for: portfolios of self-serve founders, with your brand on the experience.
Hand founders the finished list
Your team generates a matched list, removes weak fits, adds your relationship notes, and delivers a branded report. No founder login required, ever.
Best for: high-touch programs, heads-down founders, pre-raise prep.
Two sides of one platform
What your team controls
- The list builder. Create founder profiles, generate matched investors, curate, approve, deliver.
- Relationship intelligence.Tag any firm: warm relationship, funded our founders, open to intros. Your tags render on every founder's view.
- Curation. Hide irrelevant firms. Shape the directory to your community.
- Delivery tracking. A log of every founder supported and every list delivered.
- Reporting and exports. Engagement metrics and activity summaries, board-ready.
- Seats for your whole staff. Organization seats are never the bottleneck.
What your founders get
- A continuously refreshed map of 4,000+ U.S. venture firms and 15,000+ investors. Never a stale PDF.
- AI-matched investor runs ranked to their exact company, stage, and sector, with the reasoning shown.
- Verified investor contacts and deep firm research.
- Pipeline tools that carry a raise from first touch to term sheet.
- Your organization's presence throughout: your logo, your tags, your curation.
Support you can show
- If you're an accelerator:your return rides on the share of your portfolio that raises. Every founder gets the strongest possible investor targets, and you see who's actually running at it.
- If you're an ESO: real numbers for the board deck and the annual report. Investors researched and handed to founders. Founders who leveraged your fundraising support. Outcomes you can attribute.
- Either way: a clear record of exactly what support each founder received, instead of anecdotes.
Sized by the founders you support
Think of it as adding a team member whose only job is helping your founders find the right investors. Every plan includes the full platform, the list builder, and seats for your whole staff. The only variable is how many founders you put real fundraising support behind this year.
Cohort
Smaller accelerators, university programs, single-cohort organizations
- Organization-side investor list builder
- Branded list delivery
- Optional founder platform access
- Usage and delivery reporting
- Group onboarding
Program
The standard plan for accelerators, incubators, and ESOs
- Everything in Cohort
- Investor annotations and relationship notes
- Optional founder platform and pipeline access
- Multiple organization administrators
- Data exports
- Priority implementation support
Network
Statewide networks, multi-program organizations, larger accelerators
- Everything in Program
- Multiple programs or cohorts
- Program-level reporting
- Expanded administrative access
- Quarterly activity summaries
- Priority support
Imagine what it would mean if even a few more of your founders raised this year.
More questions? See the FAQ.
Frequently asked questions
Will our founders actually use it?
It doesn't have to matter. Your staff can deliver finished investor lists with no founder login at all, so the value never depends on founder adoption. You're buying a capability for your organization, not seats you hope get used.
What counts as a "founder served"?
A founder counts against your annual capacity when your team creates or delivers a substantive investor research project for that company. Browsing, tagging, and curation never count. Staff usage never counts.
Do staff seats cost extra?
No. Organization staff access is included at every tier and is deliberately generous. We price by founders served because that's where the value is delivered.
Where does the investor data come from, and how fresh is it?
The directory covers 4,000+ active U.S. venture firms and 15,000+ investors, continuously researched and refreshed: fund activity, check sizes, sector theses, and verified contacts. Your founders are never working from a stale annual PDF.
Can we add our own investor relationships?
Yes, and it's an important part of the product. Tag any firm with your relationship status: warm intro available, funded our alumni, met at demo day. Your tags render on every list your team builds and on every founder's view of that firm. A national database becomes your network.
What does a founder see if we invite them in?
Full platform access under your organization's presence: the directory with your curation and tags, AI-matched investor runs for their company, verified contacts, and pipeline tools. Your logo stays in the experience, so the resource always traces back to you.
What do we see about founder activity?
Engagement metrics by default: who's active, who needs a nudge, lists delivered, matches run. We deliberately don't expose the contents of a founder's pipeline to admins by default. Deeper visibility exists but is consent-gated per founder, which protects your founder relationships and ours.
How long does onboarding take?
Days, not weeks. The platform is live, provisioning an organization is same-day, and we set up your first founder lists with you. Most teams are running independently within two weeks.
How do we justify the investment?
Leverage: your team can put personalized investor research behind every founder you serve, not just the few they have hours for. That serves the goal your program is actually measured on, launching more high-growth companies. Reporting: you get full usage and delivery data, who was supported, what they received, and how they're engaging, exportable for board decks, annual reports, and funder updates. And impact: a couple more founders raising each year changes what your program can claim, and what it can raise for itself.
Can we pay from grant funds?
Commonly, yes. This is founder-support program infrastructure, which typically maps to program services or capital-access line items in state innovation, federal, and foundation grants. We'll provide a scope-of-services description matching your grant language; your team determines eligibility.
How does payment work?
Annual, prepaid, due on signature. ACH preferred; invoice supports ACH and card. Access activates on payment. We provide a W-9 with every agreement, and if your finance team needs a formal invoice, a scope of services, or other documentation for a grant or budget approval, tell us what it needs to say and we'll send it.
Do you offer monthly billing?
No. This is a program line item, not a month-to-month tool, and annual terms are what let us commit to implementation support and locked pricing.
What happens at renewal?
No auto-renew surprises. We confirm with you before any year-two invoice, and if your founder capacity needs to change, it changes then.
What if we support more founders than these plans cover?
We'll build a custom plan around your portfolio. If you're supporting more than 50 fundraising founders a year, that's a conversation we'd love to have on the call.
Is this white-label?
It's co-branded. Deliverables read "Prepared by your organization, powered by The Startupverse." Your founders see your brand delivering the value, with our name standing behind the data.
How is our data secured, and how is privacy handled?
US-hosted infrastructure with organization-level data isolation enforced at the database layer, so your tags, notes, and founder data are invisible to every other organization on the platform. On privacy: we do not sell your data or your founders' data, we never share it with other organizations, and founders control what they share with you beyond high-level engagement. Our full privacy policy is at thestartupverse.com/privacy. If your IT or procurement team has a security review process, send it over and we'll work through it with you.
Can we talk to a current customer?
Yes. For serious evaluations we arrange a reference conversation with an organization using the platform today.
Your founders are raising right now
Book a call. We'll show you the platform live, map it to how your organization supports founders today, and you'll know by the end whether this is your infrastructure.
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