You already have one. What you do not have is which of these firms is writing checks this month, how each one actually takes a pitch, and which of them you are already one introduction away from. That is what this does.
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Two lists, deliberately. The funds you can actually reach sit at the top. The biggest check writers sit in their own list underneath, so they do not crowd out the ones that will reply.
Add your LinkedIn connections and every investor on the page is checked against them, so the people who could introduce you stop being invisible. On a real profile that produced a route into half the funds shown. Nobody is contacted and your connections are never shown to anyone.
Where you know nobody, we name the founders that fund has already backed, with titles. A founder they have already written a check to is the next warmest route in.
When there is no warm route, you need the official one, and six in ten firms have no public door at all. An open form, a published address, a scoped program, or an honest "get an introduction". You get it before you spend an evening on an application.
None of it counts if the fund is dead. Ranked by live deal activity, not by directory listing. Each row says how many checks into companies like yours and how recently, so you can tell a fund in motion from a fund that has gone quiet.
Every firm carries the one fact that changes whether you should approach at all. These are real notes from the product, on firms you know.
No referral requirement and no restriction on who may apply, which makes this one of the few genuinely open doors among the largest investors.
The Apply button on their site is the 8VC Fellowship, a summer internship for undergraduates, not a funding application, so do not use it.
This is a late stage and growth equity mandate. Seed and Series A companies are out of scope.
That last one is an evening you just got back.
Fundz already tells you which companies just raised, so your team can sell to them. This is the same intelligence pointed the other way. It is included with Strategic, not sold separately.
See plansFundz ranks investors by real checks rather than by directory listing. Every firm on your list wrote into a company like yours in the last 90 days, and each row says how many times and how recently. A fund that raised its own money years ago and has been quiet since does not appear, because it cannot help you.
Each firm carries a researched route in: an open form, a published pitch address, a scoped program application, or an honest statement that there is no public door and you need an introduction. Across the firms researched so far, roughly six in ten are introduction only, which is the answer that saves a founder the most time.
That is the point of the note attached to each firm. It carries the one non-obvious fact that changes whether you should approach at all: a stage or geography limit, a conflicts policy, or a form that is not what it looks like. Knowing a fund is out of scope before you apply is worth more than another name on a list.
Yes, if you add your own LinkedIn connections. Fundz checks every investor on your list against the people you already know and names the ones who work at the firm or at a company it has backed. Nobody is contacted, and your connections are never shown to anyone.
Fundz names the founders that fund has already backed, with their titles, so you have a specific person to approach rather than a count. A founder they have already written a check to is the next warmest route after someone you know yourself.
No. It is included with the Strategic plan alongside everything Fundz already does on the revenue side. The same event data that tells your team which companies just raised is what tells you which investors are active, so one subscription covers both directions.