Most "investor lists" are a scrape: a public directory plus whoever you follow, 400 rows, almost no replies. The work is not collecting names. It is matching: who writes a first check, in your sector, at your stage, in the last year.
What I do instead of growing the sheet:
1. Start from recent first-checks in your sector, not logos
2. Drop anyone who has not written a pre-seed or angel check in 12 months
Snippets AI
Round Funded came directly from our own experience raising.
We found our first angel investor through cold outreach, but it took us months of searching, pitching, following up, and keeping everything organized.
We built Round Funded to compress that process. What took us months to get started, you can now set up in an afternoon: find relevant investors and accelerators, start outreach, and track replies all in one place.
We built the tool we wish we had when we started.