A founder doubled their commit cadence three weeks ago. Another quietly hired a Controller and an SOC2 lead while still bootstrapped. MentionFox surfaces them before Crunchbase, hands you a founder dossier where every claim is cited, and runs your pipeline, memos, and warm intros without bolting four tools together.
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Verified, sourced, every claim cited.
MentionFox for investors sources bootstrapped founders before Crunchbase from public signals, vets any founder with a sourced and cited dossier, and runs dealflow, deal memos, warm-intro paths, and portfolio watch in a single workspace — for VCs, angels, scouts, and PE.
"Non-profit publishing platform. Open-source flagship. Engineering output has roughly doubled in the last month and a half."
"Privacy-first analytics shop just posted a Controller plus a RevOps role plus an SOC2 lead — while still taking no outside money."
"Image-and-video generation API, indie-built, quietly added customer-success and RevOps roles in the last 30 days."
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Foxhole reads four signal classes — engineering acceleration, operational scaling, founder maker history, and emerging-category pain — to surface bootstrapped companies before they appear in any private database.
Founder Vetter builds a sourced, cited dossier: career and company arc, public reputation, network mapping beyond LinkedIn, and track-record signals. Every claim links back to where it came from.
Spin a deal memo from a company you're evaluating — thesis, concerns, weighted conviction, and the asymmetric plays only you can run. The structured memo behind your next yes.
Find a citable warm-intro path, draft the three-sentence opener, and track every founder in your pipeline. Nothing sends on its own — you review and send each message yourself.
A signal database with hundreds of companies per query. You still export the list, decide who's worth a message, write each opener from a blank page, and chase contact details in another tool. Volume without a reason to reply.
Strong company graph and growth tracking. But it stops at the list — vetting the founder, writing the personalized opener, and running the deal memo all happen somewhere else, across two or three more subscriptions.
Surfaces three companies that match your thesis today → vets the founder with a sourced, cited dossier → drafts the three-sentence opener that references their real work → tracks it in your pipeline and memo. One login. See pricing.
Proprietary deal flow. Subscribe to your thesis and get a daily feed of bootstrapped companies entering enterprise scale before they hit Crunchbase — ranked by signal strength, each with the reason it surfaced today.
See Foxhole →Watch the alumni of any company — Stripe, Anthropic, Figma, OpenAI, or whoever you add. Get a weekly digest the moment one of them starts something new, with one-click links to vet the founder. Three watchlists free.
See Alumni Tracker →Founders the moment they show "someone just started something" — stealth departures, big-company exits, co-founder hunts, just-launched products. Pattern-scored, with one-click add to pipeline or research.
Open in your workspace →A verified, sourced portrait of any founder: career and company arc, exits, board seats, public reputation and sentiment, and track-record signals. Not a Google search — a partner-meeting-grade dossier where every claim is cited.
See Founder Vetter →Co-founders, frequent collaborators, prior investors, and advisors — relationship signals beyond what's on LinkedIn. See who really backs a founder and who the warm path runs through.
See Investor Vetter →Two co-founders? Three finalists for a board seat? Compare people side by side across expertise, leadership, communication style, and risk — with role-aware scoring. Make the call without another round of calls.
Open in your workspace →Every founder you're tracking, from sourced to closed, in one board. Add companies straight from Foxhole or Founder Radar, with the thesis-match context attached so you know why each one is there.
Open your pipeline →For any founder or investor, find a citable warm-intro path — scored by connection strength, with the co-investment or shared history that justifies the ask. Copy the subject and message and send it yourself.
Find warm intros →The structured memo behind every yes. Auto-built context from your sourcing and signal data, weighted conviction, a deterministic action band, and a Linchpins panel of asymmetric plays only you can run.
Write a deal memo →Rank a verified investor base against each company in your pipeline — fit score 0 to 100, green for a strong fit, with a warm-intro path on every match. Useful for co-investment and for founders raising alongside you.
Open Pipeline Match →Track the companies you've backed — positions, entry size, and per-holding signals pulled from your scan data. One consolidated view so you know when to double down, with a one-page printable tear sheet for your LPs.
Open your portfolio →Your daily home page as an investor — what needs attention today, fresh signals, and every tool in one place. Open it each morning instead of stitching together five tabs.
See the Investor Den →Find founders before they pitch. Open with a three-sentence note that proves you read their last commit, not their landing page.
Proprietary signal and a cited dossier on every founder — the edge a fund's research desk gives, without the desk.
Deal flow, vetting, memos, and warm intros in one workspace. The signal does the legwork; you focus on the conversation.
Bootstrapped companies entering operational scaling are ideal targets. Find them while they're still off everyone's radar.
Start your free trial. Subscribe to a thesis. See what Foxhole surfaces — and run a founder dossier on someone you're already evaluating. First dossier in five minutes.
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