We built a search engine that matches startup descriptions with investors based on their historical investments. Write your startup description and get a list of investors who've backed similar companies.<p>Technical implementation:<p>- Indexed 9k active VC funds and ~5k angels globally<p>- Fine-tuned a custom embedding model on real-world pairs of investors and companies<p>- Developed an identity resolution system to collate portfolio data across many sources including portfolio websites scraped with a custom AI agent<p>Key features:
- Search full investor database without signing up<p>- Optional email/calendar integration shows 1st/2nd degree connections to investors<p>- Results ranked by semantic similarity to historical investments<p>Example query: "B2B SaaS platform for automating accounts payable workflows using OCR and ML"
→ Returns VCs/angels who've invested in similar enterprise automation/fintech companies<p>Origin: Built this after struggling with my own seed round. Existing solutions didn't solve the core problem: systematically finding ALL relevant investors, not just the obvious ones.<p>Would appreciate feedback on:<p>1. Search result quality/relevance<p>2. Additional data points that would be useful<p>3. Performance/latency issues if you encounter any<p>Team: danishabdullah, combdn, thelifeofrishi, howes, Hossamhamdy20, Isomorpheus
This is amazing and super effective, just made an account - amazing idea - really great for organizing and understanding my contacts beyond finding new VCs!<p>Would be awesome if I could see a family tree graph with my connections aswell