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Find your way into a fund

You are raising, and you want to know which of a fund's portfolio companies someone in your network has actually worked at.

Runs 3:39

The prompt

Which companies has @byFounders invested in in the past three years? Can you do a deep research and find people in my network who have been part of those companies?

What O did

  1. Read the fund. byFounders, a community powered early stage VC, around sixty three people.

  2. Ran deep research across twenty pages and scored every source, then discarded the ones it could not stand behind.

  3. Matched the portfolio against your network and the networks of your trusted partners.

  4. Returned the matches ranked, with its reasoning attached to each one.

What came back

From the public web

The portfolio, assembled from the public web: Lovable, Monta, Normative.io, Cobalt, Contractbook, Rig.dev, Corti, QA.tech, DataCrunch.io and Digitali. Two sources were crawled and thrown out in view, coincarp.com scored 2 out of 10 and vcbacked.co scored 0.

From your network

Eight people in your network who have been part of those companies. Four confirmed, one flagged as uncertain rather than guessed at, and three discarded as name collisions. The four you can actually ask are the four it is prepared to stand behind, and it says in writing why it dropped the rest.

“So it's not hallucinating. It's telling me exactly what it knows.”

From the recording at 3:09

What happens, in full

You are raising, and you want to know which of a fund's portfolio companies someone in your network has actually worked at. Not who the fund backed, which is public, but which of those doors you can knock on warm.

So you ask in one sentence: which companies has this fund invested in over the past three years, and who in my network has been part of them.

What O does

It reads the fund first, so it knows what it is dealing with: size, stage, the kind of founder it backs. Then it researches properly across the public web, Crunchbase, the fund's own site and the databases that track this, and assembles the portfolio across pre-seed to Series A.

If you already hold the information in a spreadsheet or a document, it will read that too and match against it rather than ignoring what you have.

Then it turns inward, and looks for those companies inside your own network and the networks of the partners who share theirs with you.

What comes back

Eight matches. Some confirmed, with the company and the person named. Some marked uncertain, because the evidence was not strong enough to assert.

That last part is the point. It is not guessing and then sounding confident. It tells you what it knows, what it half knows, and what it threw away, so you can decide who to actually write to.

Access intelligence

This is the shape of the thing, and it is not only about funds. Any time you need a trusted path into a company, a firm or a person, the question is the same: who do I already know who can tell me the truth about this, and how do I reach them.

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