Executive Summary

Many founders and fundraising teams waste weeks chasing stale investor contacts and suffer low response rates because datasets are noisy and deliverability is poor; this problem hits roughly 500,000 prospecting teams who already spend about $5K/year on contact data. The consequence is slow, expensive fundraising and poor signal on investor intent for both founders and investor-relations teams. You could build a searchable marketplace and API that maps capital-seeking founders to investors using verified, consent-aware contact records enriched with real-time AI intent signals (news, job posts, social) plus deliverability and freshness scores, CRM integrations, and sector/stage filters. The product would prioritize human-in-the-loop verification and opt-in indicators so buyers see demonstrable response-rate and time-to-meeting improvements rather than raw volume. This is an attractive $2.5B market (500k teams × $5K ACV) with a high market score (88/100) and strong revenue potential (82/100), driven by a shift from manual networks to data-driven sourcing and the rising value of fresh, intent-enabled contacts. AI makes real-time intent feasible now, and privacy/deliverability concerns make verified, consent-aware lists more valuable than undifferentiated databases. Competitive pressure is high, so your edge must be defensible: invest in superior verification workflows, privacy-compliant consent tracking, unique vertical coverage, and proprietary intent models that demonstrably increase reply rates and shorten fundraising cycles. That focus can justify premium pricing, but expect meaningful acquisition and maintenance costs and plan to prove ROI early with pilot customers.

Market Opportunity

Connect capital-seeking founders to investors via searchable verified contact data targets a $2.5B = 500,000 prospecting teams × $5K ACV total addressable market with high saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 8% YoY — industry estimate for sales intelligence and specialized vertical data products (2022-2025 CAGR, industry reports).

Key trends driving demand: Trend — Data-driven sourcing is replacing manual networks, creating demand for specialist vertical datasets that save sourcing time.; Trend — AI enables real-time intent scoring from news, job posts, and social signals which increases the value of 'fresh' contact data.; Trend — Privacy and deliverability concerns push buyers toward verified, opt-in, or consent-aware lists, making quality more valuable than raw volume..

Key competitors include Crunchbase, Apollo.io, PitchBook, Lusha.

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