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Investor Hunt — A database of 40k+ investors to raise your seed round 💰
Investor Hunt is a database of 40k+ investors that saves you hundreds of hours of research on AngelList, Crunchbase, and LinkedIn trying to find the right investors and their emails. 🚀
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@dainiskanopa Since when is a database of essential info for fundraising garbage? 😂
@agshinrajabov Even with our 50% forever lifetime discount for PH users? It's 'EARLY-PH' 🙂
@misterdz123 Doing that at scale takes a lot of time. Busy founders are busy
@misterdz123 @juhaszhenderson agreed. And the pain solved is largely worth the money for a founder trying to raise funds.
🔔 **UPDATE**
We just launched Investor Hunt 2.0, rebranded as Investor Scout. Investor Scout has tons of new features, an updated dataset, and a brand new UI. You can see it here: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
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Hey guys! 👋
Investor Hunt is a categorized database of 40k+ angel investors and venture capitalists. 🤑
Figuring out which investors are likely to be interested in your project and how to get in direct contact with them is a nightmare. All this data is spread out, and finding it pushes you down a rabbit hole of AngelList, personal websites, Crunchbase, and VC fund portfolio pages. All this can take hundreds of hours of research––hours you could be using to *actually* close rounds.
For the last few years while we’ve been fundraising for different projects, we've built out spreadsheets of all the investors we’ve met with (and who we’d want to meet) complete with data like where to best contact them. Over the years, our private lists grew to over a thousand investors.
After building the data engineering tools to make Press Hunt (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) and Howler (https://www.howler.media/?ref=in...) possible, we realized it would make perfect sense to use them to grow our lists of investors into a comprehensive all-in-one database.
Investor Hunt is a simple SAAS product that aggregates the names, contact info, investment focuses, and past investments of the best investors in the world in one place. We’ve grown the list to 40k+ investors (~30k of them have emails, and the rest have alternative contact links like Twitter, LinkedIn, and AngelList).
The database is still very much a WIP––we’re constantly enriching data and adding new sources. We’ve been using this ourselves (and have a few beta users), and have found it really useful, and it’s now 10x bigger than other investor database alternatives.
Investor Hunt plans start at $69/mo, but we’ve made a special *50% off forever* lifetime discount code for early adopters on Product Hunt: ‘EARLY-PH’. This code expires this week. 🙂
We’d love feedback––thanks for the time 🙏
- Matt, David, Ermek, & Rashid
@juhaszhenderson Anybody considering using this should know that response rates for cold emails to investors are very low (i.e. < 1%). If you don't personalize the email, it's going to be even lower. So if you're taking all the time to personalize the content of the email, then a small bit of time to find their email address is pretty irrelevant. This product would work great to generically email / spam hundreds of investors, but again, see my first point.
Here's an example of a cold email I sent an investor that got a response. I spent 5 to 10 minutes writing it in a way that was most relevant to the recipient.
Hello [investors name] - I'm Mike and I founded SeekWell. I've been reading [investors blog] since I started the company and I think we'd be a great fit at [firms name].
SeekWell is SQL / Python desktop app for analysts and product managers that is tightly integrated with Google Sheets and Slack. Users can send data from their database to Google Sheets and schedule data to refresh regularly (e.g. every five minutes). SeekWell also builds a shared code repository that lets users find snippets of code their teammates created. The snippets are automatically linked to conversations in Slack which adds context to their code and makes it easy to find in the future.
I know [firms name] values data moats and I believe we're building one with SeekWell. Creating a link between natural language (the Slack conversation) and code will enable us to build models that will automate adhoc analytics and allow non-technical users to get answers by asking questions in natural language.
We are x months in and have X paid users with MRR of $X (+X% MoM). Our paid customers include This Big Co (x employees), That Big Co (x employees), and Another Big Co (x employees). Please let me know if you'd like to chat and thanks again for making [investors blog].
@mike_seekwell Thanks for sharing this Mike! This is a great example of how to properly cold email. I also recommend including follow ups and using rich media like emojis & gifs (arguably less mature, but more authentic/personable).
A note here that the personalizations in this email are variables you could define with a service like MixMax. Having a central place for this data is the best way to build an outreach list so you can then focus on personalizing every bit of outreach––like an assembly line. Way more efficient.
@juhaszhenderson Can you sort by gender? I'm specifically looking for funds that are led by women.
@danatodd Hey Dana! As of now we don't have that data type. It's a little hard to get reliably. We'll be working on that for future versions though––just will take some time.
Products that help founders save countless hours of mundane research are always welcomed! Looks super useful and UI is great! 🚀
I've used AngelList in the past and it gives a great common ground for approaching an investor - its an indication of their willingness to be contacted and interest in funding.
What happens with your product? Presumably the investors are not aware they've been scraped from other platforms for inclusion on yours... how do you suggest founders engage with them to maximise the chance of success? 🤔 @bsmoder @juhaszhenderson
@bsmoder @abadesi Founders should do their due diligence on Investor Hunt to make sure that the investors are relevant, then can use any of the platforms we've linked to to contact them OR (cold) email them directly.
Relevant, polite cold emails work really well for investor discovery and starting relationships (even if they sometimes get a bad rep when abused like spam). For example, I've been able to get in touch with founders at Atomic and eFounders with cold emails.
@bsmoder @abadesi @juhaszhenderson You definitely need the ability for investors to look themselves up + request removal without paying for access. I get enough spam as it is.
@bsmoder @abadesi @rossdcurrie Even easier––investors can just tell us their name in our Intercom and we'll remove them.
Hey, guys! You are doing a great job, keep on doing it! Do you also have investors from Russia or CIS?
@daniiar_moldokanov Thanks Daniiar! Yes we do––however not as many as we have from the USA
@alan_lam1 That was our goal. It took us 1 week when we had to manually find 400.
Cool idea and congrats on the launch! Can you download the data after subscribing?
@r44d Thanks Raad! Not yet––we're working on a CSV export feature for v2.
Thanks PH!
We built Investor Hunt because of how scattered investor data is. AngelList doesn’t have emails, LinkedIn doesn’t have investment focuses, and Crunchbase usually doesn’t have a complete list of past investments. Investor Hunt is an all-in-one place for that data so you can spend less time researching investors and more time building product! 😸
Having personally raised money from folks, this is by far a huge help when trying to seek specific industry investors. It's easy to get dumb money, its hard to get to the people who are the most relevant to your field. Congrats to Matt, Ermek, and team for building something fluid and awesome. To the moon!
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Seems like a really cool idea to help founders find not just any investor, but the right investors. Definitely will check it out!
Thanks for the huge discount for PH users!
Pros:Really useful data; Easy-to-use UI with simple design
Cons:None so far
@matthewkulp Thanks Matthew! Alternatives like VC Wiz and Signal conceal direct contact info (and block you from contacting them if you don't have a mutual contact). They also have a limited number of investors, usually with a focus on tech investors in USA/SF.
Investor Hunt has direct contact info and investors from all over the world that invest in all sorts of sectors at different stages.
Well if you ever had to raise funds you know what I am talking about
Pros:They have emails
Cons:I don't know if its fine with GDPR
@nathanologies Hey Chen! Investors made their emails publicly available, and anyone can access them. We just built a few systems that collect data automatically so we can have larger numbers that are more up-to-date.
Startups whose strategy is to spam investors will spam them with or without us. Either way, spam isn't a winning strategy so they'll figure out not to abuse systems like this eventually.
We're working hard on building tools that help founders find the most *relevant* investors to reach out to––without wasting time doing grunt work data research. That should decrease both the need to spam and the amount of spam.
@nathanologies, investors want business, so they are technically interested in exploring new opportunities. Our job was to make sure startups don't spam them, and we believe pricing is the best way to eliminate unserious startups.
Hope I answered your question.
@juhaszhenderson there are so many similar product out there, what makes this platform better?
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