<aside> ☝ When you begin preparing for a funding round, your first stop should always be your existing investors and board members. Ask for recommendations, get warm introductions, and work together to create a focused and prioritized investor target list. This collaborative approach opens doors, and often closes rounds faster.

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Finding the Right Investors for You

Find a way to manage your exploration to track investor outreach in collaboration with your existing investors. Consider creating a joint Notion table/Airtable or even a Google Sheet. There are also tools that could be worth exploring, such as Cabal to help manage warm intros.

Curated Lists of VCs & Angels

Save time and broaden your reach by using these databases of investors.

General VC & Angel Databases

  1. No Warm Intro Required Investor List
  2. Shai Goldman’s Early-Stage VC List
  3. Active VC List
  4. Pre-Seed Investors List
  5. Ultimate Seed Fund List – 750+ Firms (by Matt Estes)
  6. US Founders Who Angel Invest
  7. Family Offices Investing at Pre-Seed
  8. US Women Angels List (by Lolita Taub)
  9. New VC Funds <$200M (Shai Goldman)
  10. Resources for Underrepresented Founders (by Anna Phan)
  11. 4WARD VC 1000+ Climate VC & Accelerator Database
  12. African Angel Investor List
  13. Diverse Background Angel Investors
  14. Trace Cohen’s Active Investor Angel List