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Know Your VC — Vetted investor reviews from the founders who know them
Know Your VC is a platform for founders to anonymously or publicly share their experiences with VCs & Angels - both good and bad.
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Love this @anthonyjz17 it seems more akin to a G2Crowd/Capterra/Siftery for VC's. The flywheel opportunity is getting the VC's to actively promote their scores/profiles. Email signatures, twitter profiles, medium signatures. Maybe appeal to the vanity element with top ten lists or similar based on category, push press to those lists, VC's put in the work to invite their startups to review. Flywheel started. Excited to hopefully track lots of progress!
@jcwinter I think that's definitely a great idea, we definitely have plans to engage VCs with some of the ideas that you have mentioned. Thank you for the inspiration 😊
Anonymity is going to be a problem. Investors only work w/ a finite amount of entrepreneurs at any given time. How will you take on that challenge?
Yelp for VCs. Something like this, but specifically for women, behind an identity verification wall could probably take off.
@iansmith That's a feature, yes, not the value prop. But a secure/verified environment to compare notes across different self-identifying subgroups seems like a core requirement for something like this to gain traction. Then you can share artifacts/decks, how meetings/pitches wen, who was an idiot/an amazing resource, and who pulled a McClure/Sacca.
Great product. Would be great if you could verify whether it was a funded company anonymously. These should carry extra weight in your algorithm.
Great work folks! This insight will be incredibly useful to many people. Thanks for the effort & best wishes!
Cool concept.
I'm always been skeptical of reviews about "people". My question is -- how do you combat the reality that real juicy details about any individual are only shared privately? Most people (not everyone) are very, very weary of the future potential repercussions of leaving a negative review about someone publicly. What if a founder leaves a negative review, another VC sees it, and doesn't participate in their round 18 months later as a result?
In short, how do you ensure the platform shows the real picture rather than just a bunch of 5 star & 1 star reviews?
@guygunaratne thanks! We really hope this will help all founders through their fundraising experiences in the future.
I guess you've been asked this many times, but other than a clean UI, how is this different from The Funded? How can users be sure that you're not going to sell information about reviewers to VCs?
Hi 👋🏽 Product Hunt community!
I'm Anthony, one of the team members at Know Your VC. My team and I started this project to provide a widely-accessible and safe place for founders to anonymously or publicly share their experiences with VCs & Angels - both good and bad.
We believe Know Your VC will truly benefit founders by increasing transparency in the venture world. The platform is still in its early stages so any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
My teammates and I will be available all day to answer your questions! 🤗
@anthonyjz17 hey! great job there, I will start filling in some info for a few contacts :)
Btw would you be interested in sharing the info in bulk? send me an email chriszioutas@datacircle.io
Really good platform for entrepreneur, so they won't waste their time with wrong vc.
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