Once you decide to raise funds, you’ll spend weeks looking for Business Angels.
Now with Investor Profiles, you can directly see if you fit their investment thesis.
Even better, we’ve created a list of top BAs on Folk, the CRM we used to raise our own seed.
Great product, congrats on the launch. Check it out @etiennegatti, could be helpful for us.
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Congrats on the launch! I'm particularly interested in how you maintain the accuracy and relevance of the investor profiles over time. Do you have a dedicated team or an automated system to update the data? Additionally, are there plans to expand the database to include more international investors, especially those outside traditional startup hubs? Great work, and looking forward to seeing more features in the future!
Hi @anastasia_chakileva_ , great question !
Regarding accuracy and relevance, here is how we built it.
The end product contains between 50 and 100 top Business Angels (BAs) per country.
The idea was to have a mix of “veterans” and promising new BAs, as well as a mix of men and women BAs.
But how did we get there?
We started with existing lists, which gave us a few thousand names, as well as reviewing our user base.
We have near 20k users, mostly investors, on the Roundtable platform.
We then narrowed them down with the help of a few top angels from our network in each target country.
What we basically asked them was : “who would you follow without thinking if they invited you to a deal?”
That’s why we’ve only included in the list countries where we have a geographical footprint.
Finally, we tried to contact everyone to check if they were still actively investing at the moment.
This is why some household names may be missing: they told us they didn’t want to be listed, or were not currently investing.
We plan on updating it every few months, with a similar process :)
Regarding international scope, what other locations do you have in mind?
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A must-have for any startup raising funds. Well done, Roundtable team!
This is great! Out of curiosity, from the investments so far, how many founders got funding by reaching out to Investors, and how many investors reached out to founders? is there a percentage you could share?
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