How do you tell an angel from a VC before you send the deck?

Angels write their own first check. VCs have a process, a partner meeting, and a stage they already decided. Sending a seed deck to an angel, or a pre-seed deck to a Series A fund, is how you get silence.

Before anyone gets the deck:

1. Last check: did they write a first check in the last year, or only lead later rounds?

2. Check size: $10–50k personal vs $1m+ fund

3. Decision: one person vs a partnership

4. Sector: they actually do this, not "we invest in everything"

If it is their own money and a first check, it is an angel. If it is a fund and a process, it is a VC. Matching is that filter, not a bigger list.

Round Funded matches by stage and sector so the first 50 are people who can actually write the check.

https://roundfunded.com/en/tools...