Seed VCs spend ~60% of their time sourcing deals. Most use some combo of Airtable, spreadsheets, and Twitter alerts. Affinity (the CRM everyone recommends) costs $2k+/mo and still requires manual data entry.
I built DealPulse to fix this. You define your investment thesis (stage, sector, geo, check size), and an AI agent continuously sources deals from Product Hunt, Hacker News, Crunchbase, and the broader web.
Each morning you get scored deal briefs with:
How the scoring works: It's not a simple keyword match. The AI cross-references founder history, funding stage signals, and market timing against your thesis parameters. Deals that score above your threshold get a full brief. Everything else gets filed for later review.
The whole thing runs autonomously. No manual data entry, no inbox triage, no "let me add this to Airtable" tax.
Pricing: \(299/mo flat. No per-seat, no enterprise minimum. Compare that to \)2k+/mo for Affinity, which doesn't even do the sourcing part.
We're early and actively looking for feedback from VCs who live this pain daily. Any seed investors here? What does your current deal flow process look like?
William Wang
Founder of GEOScore AI & KeepRule. Building tools for AI search visibility.
The 60% time on sourcing stat is real — and the core problem isn't data collection, it's signal quality. Most VC deal flow tools drown you in leads. The actual value is in the filtering: which signals actually predict founder-market fit at seed stage?
Curious about two things: (1) How are you handling the cold start problem when a VC first connects? Do you need a minimum history of past deals to calibrate the model? (2) What's your signal source for "momentum" — is it purely public data (GitHub stars, Product Hunt launches, social mentions) or do you incorporate private signals like hiring velocity or domain registration patterns?
The pricing gap between Affinity at $2k/mo and what indie VCs can afford is a real market opportunity. Most seed funds have 1-2 partners and can't justify enterprise CRM pricing for deal flow that's 80% noise.