Deal flow that already fits your thesis — and tells you why.
Set your sectors, stages, cheque range and geographies once. Every early-stage founder is scored against them, and each match arrives with the reasoning behind it — so your queue stays short and nothing in it is a mystery.
- 5 fields
- 0
- 100%
- Fintech · SaaS
- Seed
- ₹25L – ₹75L
- Pune · Bengaluru
Fewer names. Better reasons.
Startup Connect AI is not a directory you scroll. It is a short, ranked list you can interrogate — and a set of controls that keep the volume where you want it.
A queue filtered before you ever see it
Founders reach your list only if their sector overlaps your thesis and clears your no-gos. Stage, cheque fit, geography and semantic similarity then set the order.
Every match explained, with citations
Each signal carries a plain-language reason, any concern worth raising, and the value it came from — taken from the founder’s own profile, never invented by the model.
Founders come to you, not at you
There is no cold outreach and no bulk mail. A founder requests an intro; you accept or decline. Messaging only opens once both sides have agreed.
Signals you can sanity-check
Responsiveness badges built from real activity, endorsements from investors and mentors who have met the founder, and the founder’s own milestone updates sit on every profile.
Four steps, and you are in the loop for every one.
Set your thesis
Sectors, stages, cheque range, geographies and no-gos — plus prior investments if you want them on your profile.
Get ranked matches
Your thesis is embedded and scored against every visible founder. Weak fits are filtered out rather than padded into a feed.
Accept the intros worth your time
Save a founder for later, mark “not a fit” with a reason, or accept the intro request and open the conversation.
Meet, then log the outcome
Share a Cal.com link, meet, and record how it went in one tap. Private notes stay private to you — the other side never sees them.
You get the reasoning, not just a score
This is what a match looks like when you open it. Every line is traced back to a field somebody actually filled in.
“Sector match (Fintech), stage match (Seed), and an ask of ₹40L that sits inside your ₹25L–₹75L cheque range. Both of you are active in Pune.”
- Fintech · Seed — founder’s profile
- Ask ₹40L — founder’s profile
- Cheque ₹25L – ₹75L — your thesis
- Pune — founder’s profile
Worth checking: Team of 2 with no prior exits — worth probing on the hiring plan.
Your data, your visibility
Built for India’s DPDP Act, and boring on purpose: nothing leaves the platform without you asking it to.
- Hide your cheque range from founders with a single setting.
- Notifications are in-app only — no email or WhatsApp blasts in v1.
- Withdraw matching consent to disappear from matching without losing your profile.
- Export everything as JSON, or delete your account with a 30-day restore window.
Before you sign up
What does it cost?
Nothing. Startup Connect AI is free while we run a private beta with our first cohort of founders, angels and mentors.
How many founders will I actually see?
Only the ones that clear your thesis filters and the fit threshold — sometimes a handful, sometimes none that week. We would rather show you nothing than pad the list.
Can founders see my cheque range?
Only if you let them. Hiding cheque sizes is one toggle in investor settings, and your prior investments are yours to add or leave out.
What if the AI gets a match wrong?
Tell it. “Not a fit” with a reason is a first-class action, and because every match ships with its reasoning you can check the logic instead of trusting a number.
Fill in your thesis once. Let the filtering happen before your inbox.
Set up an investor profile in about three minutes and see what the first pass surfaces.