Show HN: Semantic search engine for finding relevant VCs and angels
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.
Technical implementation:
- Indexed 9k active VC funds and ~5k angels globally
- Fine-tuned a custom embedding model on real-world pairs of investors and companies
- Developed an identity resolution system to collate portfolio data across many sources including portfolio websites scraped with a custom AI agent
Key features: - Search full investor database without signing up
- Optional email/calendar integration shows 1st/2nd degree connections to investors
- Results ranked by semantic similarity to historical investments
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
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.
Would appreciate feedback on:
1. Search result quality/relevance
2. Additional data points that would be useful
3. Performance/latency issues if you encounter any
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!
Would be awesome if I could see a family tree graph with my connections aswell
Why do you need all those permissions for signing up?