Investor matching
The right investors, ranked for you.
Stop scraping lists and cold-guessing. Grow finds the investors who actually fit your stage, sector and traction, ranks them, and shows you why each one made the list.
Investors ranked against your profile, pre-filtered to your stage and locale, with the ones worth your attention on top.
What it is
Investor matching
Investor matching in Grow is an AI targeting engine that finds and ranks the venture investors most likely to fund your company. It scores each firm and angel against your stage, sector, geography, check size and traction, explains the fit with a transparent breakdown, and hands the ranked list straight to your outreach — so research becomes a warm pipeline instead of a spreadsheet.
Discovery
Investors who fit, not just investors who exist
Describe your company once. Grow surfaces the firms and angels whose thesis, stage and check size line up with your raise, ranked so the best fit is at the top.
- Ranked by fit to your raise
- Stage, sector and geography match
- Check-size and lead/follow fit
- Angels and firms in one list
Transparency
See why each investor made the list
Every match comes with a score breakdown, so you know whether a firm ranked for thesis fit, portfolio pattern or recent activity — and can defend your target list to your board.
- Per-investor fit score
- Reasoned score breakdown
- Portfolio and thesis signals
- Recent-activity signals
From list to pipeline
Targeting that becomes outreach
Add a matched investor to your pipeline in one click. Because matching and CRM are the same system, the firm you just found is the firm you now track — no re-keying, no export.
- One-click add to pipeline
- Shared records with the CRM
- Warm-intro path surfacing
- No CSV export/import round-trips
Everything included
Everything in Investor matching.
- AI investor discovery across firms and angels
- Fit ranking by stage, sector, geography and check size
- Transparent per-investor score breakdown
- Portfolio, thesis and recent-activity signals
- One-click add to your fundraising pipeline
- Warm-introduction path surfacing
- Shared investor records across the platform
Grow vs manual research
Investor matching, or one more tool.
Most founders build a target list by hand — a database export, a spreadsheet, and hours of guessing which partner leads at which stage. Grow does the ranking for you and drops the result straight into the pipeline you already run here.
| Grow | Lists, databases and manual research | |
|---|---|---|
| Building the list | AI-ranked by fit | Manual, from database exports |
| Why an investor is a fit | Explained score breakdown | Your best guess |
| From research to outreach | One click into the CRM | Copy-paste into a spreadsheet or CRM |
| Kept current | Refreshed with new signals | Stale the day you export it |
| Cost | Included in Grow | Separate database subscription |
Comparison reflects common setups for this category; specific capabilities and pricing vary by vendor and plan.
One platform
Investor matching doesn’t work alone.
Investor matching shares one source of truth with the rest of Grow, so the work compounds instead of scattering across tools. A few places it connects:
Investor CRM
Investor CRM
Every investor conversation, in order, with the next step obvious. Email syncs in, updates go out, and the whole raise moves through stages you can see.
ExploreInvestor portal
Investor portal
Their position, their documents, your latest update — in one branded place. You decide exactly what each investor sees, down to the field.
ExplorePitch deck hosting
Pitch deck hosting
Send a link, not an attachment. Know which investor opened it, which slides they lingered on, and who forwarded it — so you follow up on real interest.
ExploreFAQ
Common questions.
- How does Grow decide which investors match my startup?
- Grow scores each investor against your stage, sector, geography, target check size and traction, then ranks them by overall fit and shows a breakdown of what drove each score.
- Does investor matching include angels or only funds?
- Both. Grow ranks venture funds and individual angels in the same list, so a pre-seed round and a Series A are each matched to the right kind of investor.
- Can I move a matched investor into my pipeline?
- Yes, in one click. Matching and the investor CRM share the same records, so a firm you find is immediately trackable in your pipeline with no export or re-entry.
- Is investor matching different from a database like Crunchbase?
- A database gives you a list to filter by hand. Grow ranks investors by fit to your specific raise, explains the ranking, and connects the result to your outreach and updates in one place.
The whole platform, free to start.
Investor matching is one part of Grow — the idea-to-IPO fundraising platform. Add your whole team; there are no seat fees.
Free forever to start. No credit card. No seat fees.