For VCs, Angels, Scouts & PE

From off-radar founder to conviction memo — sourced, cited, in one place

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.

The next company in your thesis is already leaving a trail. You just can't see it yet.
These are real types of public signals Foxhole reads — across code repos, hiring pages, maker communities, and emerging-category conversations. Each one is a founder you could reach before anyone else does.
Public repo Two-founder team · commit cadence doubled over six weeks

"Non-profit publishing platform. Open-source flagship. Engineering output has roughly doubled in the last month and a half."

→ Engineering acceleration is the earliest fundraise tell — it shows in public repos three to six weeks before any wire. Foxhole surfaces the team and drafts a three-sentence opener that references the actual work.
Hiring signals Bootstrapped · profitable since year one

"Privacy-first analytics shop just posted a Controller plus a RevOps role plus an SOC2 lead — while still taking no outside money."

→ That hiring pattern is the signature of a company preparing to handle enterprise contracts on its own balance sheet. Ideal for a Series A check or a PE roll-up — and it's off everyone else's radar.
Maker community Serial bootstrapped builder · fourth product, not first

"Image-and-video generation API, indie-built, quietly added customer-success and RevOps roles in the last 30 days."

→ Founder maker history predicts which lean teams actually scale. Foxhole ranks the signal, you pick the hook and the proof point, and send the opener from your own inbox.
Signal → Vet → Memo → Reach. Before the round is even announced.
This is a walkthrough of how a single public signal becomes a sourced founder dossier and a warm, cited opener — without a five-person research desk.

Interactive demo · Sample data · 30 seconds

Four steps. One workspace. No five-person research desk.
Step 1

Source

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.

Step 2

Vet

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.

Step 3

Decide

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.

Step 4

Reach

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.

MentionFox investor workspace
Your investor workspace — Foxhole feed ranked by signal strength, founder dossiers, deal memos, warm-intro paths, and portfolio watch. Each card explains why it surfaced today.
They hand you a hundred leads. We hand you three you can actually open.
Sourcing isn't the bottleneck anymore — conversion is. Cold investor outreach replies in the low single digits, and almost nobody personalizes at real scale. A bigger list doesn't fix that. A reason the founder replies does.

Specter

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.

Harmonic

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.

MentionFox

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.

Sourcing, diligence, and pipeline — built for the way investors actually work.
Each capability links to the real surface. Sign up free to open any of them.
Sourcing — find founders before the crowd
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Foxhole

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.

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Alumni Tracker

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.

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Founder Radar

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.

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Diligence — know the founder before the partner meeting
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Founder Vetter dossier

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.

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Network mapping

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.

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Fox Compare

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.

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Pipeline & CRM — run the whole deal in one workspace
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Dealflow pipeline

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 →
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Warm-intro scoring

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 →
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Deal memos

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 →
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Pipeline Match

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.

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Portfolio watch

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 →
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The Investor Den

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.

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Built for four buyer types with one shared problem: too many leads, not enough hours.

Seed & Series A VCs

Find founders before they pitch. Open with a three-sentence note that proves you read their last commit, not their landing page.

Angels & scouts

Proprietary signal and a cited dossier on every founder — the edge a fund's research desk gives, without the desk.

Family offices & solo GPs

Deal flow, vetting, memos, and warm intros in one workspace. The signal does the legwork; you focus on the conversation.

PE roll-up funds

Bootstrapped companies entering operational scaling are ideal targets. Find them while they're still off everyone's radar.

All of this in one place — see pricing
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