What is poach.vc?

Track VCs to find undiscovered pre-seed / seed founders.

One of the hardest challenges for early stage investors is to find high quality deal flow. Personal networks and LinkedIn are usually the tools to find founders. But often, if someone lists “Stealth Startup” as their job on LinkedIn, it’s already too late. Wouldn’t it be great to find this founder as early as possible?

We help you find founders by keeping tabs on the partners and investors at top seed and pre-seed firms. By looking at publicly accessible data about your competition, we can find people that they’re interested in or interacting with online.

We compile lists of people that are coming onto the radar of top VCs and send them directly to your inbox. Friday emails are free, but you have to be a paid subscriber to receive the Monday and Wednesday emails.

Why pay for this?

Large firms have a ton of resources and data teams looking to find the best founders. They’re probably using tools like Harmonic (which charge an extortionate amount of money) or have their own people in-house.

If people from a few top firms are chatting with a current Google engineer with 4 YOE who has recently been tweeting about a AI-related side project, it might be worth reaching out. But how would you ever find this person? We can, and we send people like this directly to your inbox every day.

There is a ton of information out there. We sift through it, save you time, and just a single deal made via one of the people we find (or referrals from talking with them) are worth the subscription fee. At the very least, it helps you keep a pulse on who top firms are looking into.

Below is a graph of social activity from your competitors we scanned the day of writing this. Don’t miss out on the insights we can draw from them, every single day.