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

👋 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. 🦄 WHY? Finding an ideal investor is hard. The number of startups and VCs grow from year to year. 📈 Information is abundant, but is it always reliable? As a human, it’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. 👀 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. 🔝 The funds are competing to get on your list. HOW is Smart Search different from other investor-picking services? - Advanced industry rules. 🗂 We give points to funds who invested in closely related verticals. - Sophisticated geography rules. 🌍 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. 🎯 Most likely, you won’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. 👩‍💻 Only those investors that have made at least 1 investment in the last 2 years will appear on the list. We’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 📌 - get a list of all available decision makers in the funds - see contact details of relevant decision makers (GDPR doesn’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 📩 Finally, in order to get your list, you need to log in with your LinkedIn account. This is done to avoid platform abuse. We don’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. 🎉 Extremely eager to hear your questions, comments and suggestions. 🙌

Hey! Our matching questionnaire is startup-centric and I know you've already enjoyed it ✌️ But which kind of questionnaire do you prefer?

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 VC’s could receive theses matches so that the outreach is not so cold. Rather qualified and warm to begin with…..

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!

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. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Where have you been 5 years ago? I needed it in 2016 when I've looked for an investor for my first startup

looks super interesting -- any case studies or success stories?

Ideal .. happy that Anna and team has created a product like this. Hopefully other regions could also get a hold of it ...and leverage the product.. great going

Cool project. Is access from Russia excluded on purpose?

Finding an ideal investor is hard. The number of startups and VCs grow from year to year. 📈 Information is abundant, but is it always reliable? As a human, it’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. 👀 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.

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I’m using this tool. It is a good alternative crunchbase

Will definitely try it out! Good luck with your launch ✨

Great tool. Good luck

Nice stuff. As founder, I use it in addition to my own research

Amazing Database. Would love to access.

Access to this service from Russia is not working (with VPN too)

Wow, good job!

Much needed!

Cool product. So helpful for startups!