Specialty pattern recognized
Consumer marketplace
Not a sector tag. Not a keyword. 109 nodes. 264 connections. 64 specialty patterns. We classify every founder and every investor across all five — so the match reflects how investors actually think, not how a database categorizes them.
Beyond the dimensions
Then we layer everything else investors actually care about — stage adjacency, check fit, geography, deployment cadence, recent activity, behavioral history, network depth. Then a human decides what becomes an intro.
Layer 01 · Ontology coverage
foundation
Every founder and every investor positioned across industry, modality, technology, audience, and business model. Coverage matters, not keyword hits.
Layer 02 · Specialty bonus
amplifier
Investors with a tight, focused thesis get amplified when their specialty overlaps. A focused investor outranks a broad generalist on the same deal.
Layer 03 · Specialty patterns
amplifier
Consumer marketplace. AI fintech. Vertical SaaS healthcare. On-demand household services. When founder and investor both express the same pattern, the conviction reads through.
Layer 04 · Stage adjacency
filter
Stages adjacent to the raise pass; the rest get cut. A growth-stage fund doesn't surface for a pre-seed. A pre-seed angel doesn't surface for Series B.
Layer 05 · Check size fit
filter
Check-size mins and maxes measured against the raise. Lead-size matches score highest. Participation-size partial. Out-of-band cut. No founders pitching small angels on Series A.
Layer 06 · Geography
filter
Investors with local-only mandates surface only for nearby founders. Investors with regional focus match their geos. Global mandates match anywhere.
Layer 07 · Deployment cadence
signal
An investor actively deploying outranks one on pause. Funds at the end of their cycle don't waste anyone's time.
Layer 08 · Hard nos
exclusion
When an investor declares the sectors they'll never touch — and the founder is there — the match never fires. Saves both sides the dance.
Layer 09 · Behavioral profile
signal
We track what investors actually do, not what their website says — checks written, meetings taken, days to decision, ghost rates. The matcher quietly favors deciders.
Layer 10 · Network signal
signal
When other founders have engaged this investor, the aggregated history surfaces — commitment rates, what resonated, common objections — without ever exposing any individual pipeline.
Layer 11 · Human curation
the final gate
The system surfaces signal. A human decides what becomes an intro. No auto-fired emails. No abused inboxes. Ever.
Eleven layers applied to every founder, every investor, every match. The score you don't see is the score we engineered to make sure the names you DO see are the ones worth your time.