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After 10 weeks of building in public, the signup page is live. Brouky scores 32,900 VCs and tells you exactly which ones to pitch — stage, sector, deal history, founder reviews. If you're raising, grab a spot 👇 brouky.tech/startup-regist…

@GS_VCactivist Since we categorise startups I put SaaS into illegal category, because it is too generic and tells basically nothing.

@DevMatyas28516 In a way true, any service’s business model stands on same ground. Here diligence is on product, not on business model.

Lot of VC funds who were major SAAS investors are now becoming AI and robotics investor because they missed the first wave, and they do not have workforce talent to do stringent due diligence on important science questions. This is what the biggest bubble is. As they have fund and they are under a timeline to deploy.

💰 Investment Announcement 💰 Qatar-based Project Q, stealth-mode startup, raises €15M Series A led by Project A Ventures. More here 👉 brouky.tech/insights/fundi…

We ranked all 369 VC firms in France by how their portfolios actually performed. Not reputation, not who paid. The median score was 63 out of 110. The top 5: @innovacom, 101/110 France's oldest VC. Backing founders since 1988, with 20+ IPOs behind it. @AnderaPartners, 99/110 4.5 billion euros in play. Just sold Amolyt to AstraZeneca. @aurigapartners, 99/110 Early in Neolane, later bought by Adobe, and in unicorn Nexthink. @RaiseImpact, 98/110 Gives half its team profits to fund young founders. @Eiffel, 98/110 Powering the energy transition, with over 5,000 green assets across Europe. Same method for every fund. No self-reported data. Full ranking at brouky.tech/vc-rankings/fr…

💰 Investment Announcement 💰 Qatar-based Project Q, Project Q is a stealth-mode startup, raises €15M Series A led by Project A Ventures. More here 👉 brouky.tech/insights/fundi…

🚀 Investment Announcement 🚀 UK-based GCORE, co-founded by Rob Sibley and James Brooks, platform for workforce management and safety in industrial settings, raises €55M Series A led by Constructor Capital. More here 👉…

What is your VC horror story?

💰 Investment Announcement 💰 United States-based Preference Models, preference models builds reinforcement learning environments designed to train and evaluate AI models by providing controlled settings for improving model behavior, raises €736M Series c led by Aditya…

@jayyeh Czech republic :) we monitor vc and the trend is very weird. There is also slow progression of the companies that get the funding, it is mostly bridge rounds, not next rounds.

@DevMatyas28516 what country?

tip for vcs: be easier to discover. i know it's cool to be mysterious on your website. i know linkedin can feel cringe. and i get the worry that being easier to find just means more bad deals getting thrown into your inbox. but honestly, the upside is way bigger than that cost. i advise a few companies at a time, and one of the main ways i help is around fundraising (shocker i know). sometimes that work is with the narrative, sometimes it’s strategy or process. but one workstream that ALWAYS comes up is figuring out which firms are actually worth talking to. btw...i only use my limited advisor slots on awesome founders. these are really good companies who can get meetings. if they're later stage, they've got strong metrics, if they're early... fantastic experience & resumes, the kind of startups most investors want to see. part of the list we build is vcs i know and like. the other part is looking through the founder’s 1st and 2nd degree connections on linkedin to see who might be a natural fit. maybe that's a surprise? this is where i keep getting annoyed. it is way too hard to tell what a lot of investors actually do. so freaking annoying... sometimes you can’t even find the firm. then you get to the website and still can’t tell what they invest in, what stage they like, whether they lead, or what size check they write. other times the linkedin headline is just something coy like “Investor and AI enthusiast,” which tells you basically nothing. the result is that amazing founders end up skipping over investors who might actually be great fits, just because the information isn’t easy to find. and that means the big branded firms keep getting more of the good deals, while lesser-known investors make themselves harder to discover than they need to be. so my advice: put more real information on your website and linkedin. say what you invest in, what stage you like, whether you lead, and if you’re comfortable, the kind of checks you usually write. yes, i understand being specific might mean missing a few weird edge-case deals. that’s fine. have some conviction and define your strategy. btw, you can always update it later. linkedin might be cringe, but it’s still the best dataset founders have for figuring out who they’re connected to and who might be worth reaching out to. instead of “investor and ai enthusiast,” try something like: “Partner @AdamantVentures, leading Seed - Series B Physical AI deals ” (bonus pts if you add check size) yeah, maybe you’ll get more junk in your inbox. just ignore them like you do so many other emails. the upside is you’ll also make it a lot easier for the right founders, with awesome warm paths to you, to actually find you. you’re welcome.

What is the best VC in europe?

💰 Investment Announcement 💰 United States-based Preference Models, reinforcement learning environments for AI, raises €736M Series C led by Aditya Agarwal. More here 👉 brouky.tech/insights/fundi…

@vahidf24 @RightSideCapVC @johnengtwit @EverywhereVC @jefielding We actually rank VCs and if the check does not meet basic criteria in the stage, they lose points for it.

@DevMatyas28516 @RightSideCapVC @johnengtwit @EverywhereVC @jefielding Fair point. It's always a tradeoff.

8 pre-seed investors that still reads cold pitches if the company fits the mandate Part2: US + Canada funds that write first cheques 1. @RightSideCapVC (@johnengtwit ) - $150K–$500K rounds, answers in days, US + Canada 2. @EverywhereVC (@jefielding ) - $250K first cheques, pre-seed, global 3. @VersionOneVC (@bwertz , ) - leads and co-leads pre-seed + seed, fresh $78M fund, Vancouver 4. @trustfundvc (@sophiaamoruso ) - $50K-$150K, business-building software, US 5. @Bread_ButterVC (@maryGrove) - foodtech, healthcare, enterprise, open office hours, Minneapolis 6. @G2CVENTURE (Vik Ghai) - $1M-$1.5M, leads first rounds, vertical AI, Palo Alto 7. @MaCVentureCap (@MarlonCNichols) - around $1M, leads seed, tech and culture, LA 8. @startupignition (@trich_) - $250K-$800K first cheques, Utah I put the full breakdown together with the cheque sizes, focus, and the exact way in for each fund. If you want it, just say the word and I'll send it over.

@AWSSupport Then urge them, it has been 50 days for one of them.

@DevMatyas28516 Hello, apologies for the frustration regarding your cases. You can be assured your sentiments have been shared internally with our Support team. While I don't have a time frame, I'd encourage you to continue to monitor your cases for further updates. ^DS

@awscloud can you please reply to our support tickets it has been 40 days, multiple tickets, no reply.

@AWSSupport Still nothing happened after a week, after I sent your X account our issues numbers.

@DevMatyas28516 Sorry to hear about the delay in getting a response to your support cases. Feel free to send us your case IDs via private message & we'll look into it. ⬇️ ^AN x.com/messages/compo…

@vahidf24 @RightSideCapVC @johnengtwit @EverywhereVC @jefielding But still the first valuation will be very bad for the startup. I am not fun of that.

@DevMatyas28516 @RightSideCapVC @johnengtwit @EverywhereVC @jefielding Yep They invest early with a smaller cheque, then keep capital aside to participate in later rounds if the company is performing well.

@vahidf24 @RightSideCapVC @johnengtwit @EverywhereVC @jefielding Hey what does get in early and reserve capital? I am asking sincerely, does it mean follow ones from same ones?

@DevMatyas28516 @RightSideCapVC @johnengtwit @EverywhereVC @jefielding That's fair but many of these are first cheques the idea is to get in early and reserve capital for follow-ons

Germany’s Assort Health leads with €110M Series C+ to automate healthcare referrals using AI. Close behind, Taktile secures €101M Series C+ for AI-powered risk management in finance, backed by Goldman Sachs and Index Ventures. #VCdeals

@dara_venture What was yours last investment?

Venture Capitalist firms don't need an office.