Know which investors are worth your time.

Before you send the deck or take the meeting, check fit, fund activity, portfolio conflicts, and the evidence behind the answer. One link in. Pitch, Wait, Skip, or Unclear out.

First investor check free · no card · public sources only

  • Fit against your startup
  • Recent activity and conflicts
  • Sources behind the verdict
VCignal investor decisionIllustrative placeholder · fictional data
VCignalResearch workspaceFounder preview
Illustrative example

Arbor Arc Ventures

Pre-seed fund · London, UK · Fictional venture firm

Founder decisionPitch

Stage and climate infrastructure focus align; confirm the fund’s current deployment window.

Evidence8 sources
Fit

Pre-seed · climate

Timing

Verify deployment

Portfolio

No obvious overlap

See how the decision is built ↓

A decision, not another database row.

VCignal starts where investor lists stop: with one investor, your startup, and the question that matters before you spend another founder hour.

VCignalResearch workspaceNew brief
Illustrative placeholder

Check an investor

Use a profile, company page, or firm site.

Investor or fund URLhttps://arborarc.example/fund

Fictional example only

Startup contextSeed · B2B
Identity

Resolve the right target

Public trail

Check current signals

Conflict scan

Flag overlap early

Start with the investor already on your list.

Paste a LinkedIn profile, company page, or fund website. Your saved startup context keeps every result specific to this raise.

  • ✓
    Is the fit real?

    Stage, sector, geography, cheque size, and thesis are checked against your startup—not a generic founder profile.

  • ✓
    Are they active now?

    Recent deals, fund-cycle clues, public signals, and reachable paths help separate current opportunity from stale reputation.

  • ✓
    What could waste the meeting?

    Portfolio conflicts, verified mismatches, missing evidence, and trust gaps appear before the outreach draft.

Get the answer before the research report.

The top of every dossier says whether this investor is worth your time, why, how to approach them, what angle to use, and the biggest risk to verify.

  • Pitch, Wait, Skip, or Unclear
  • Source count and confidence stay visible
  • Outreach and meeting prep follow the verdict
Check an investor free →
VCignalInvestor dossierSample data
Fictional fund & data

Arbor Arc Ventures

Illustrative venture-fund brief — not a real investor.

Founder decisionPitch

Evidence supports an intro. Start with the verified industrial-data thesis signal.

ConfidenceMedium
Stage fit

Seed aligned

Recent signal

Public update

Watch-out

Check ticket size

These are screenshots of the VCignal app using clearly labelled sample data. They are not recreated marketing mockups.

Good research is allowed to say no.

The product is useful when it gives you time back—not when it finds a flattering reason to contact everyone.

Pitch
The fit and timing justify outreach now.
Wait
The investor may fit, but a better trigger or timing is needed.
Skip
A verified mismatch makes this a poor use of founder time.
Unclear
The evidence is too thin or conflicting to pretend certainty.

Built from the other side of the table.

Alex Zlotnikov on LinkedIn ↗
“I review founder decks and host early-stage pitch sessions. VCignal exists because founders burn too much time on investors who were never positioned to write the cheque.”

GGW VenturesAssociate

LvlUp VenturesSenior Scout

Flashpoint VCScout

Ganas VenturesScout

Roles shown are Alex’s professional affiliations. They are not customer endorsements of VCignal.

Cheaper than one wrong coffee meeting.

Every plan runs the same research. Capacity grows with your raise.

Free

$0 / monthYour first check is free

  • ✓1 research credit each month
  • ✓Source-backed investor verdict
  • ✓No card required
Get my verdict

Pro

$49 / monthBilled monthly

  • ✓50 research credits each month
  • ✓20 refresh credits each month
  • ✓Investor CRM access
Choose Pro
Most popular

Active Fundraising

$99 / monthBilled monthly

  • ✓100 research credits each month
  • ✓50 refresh credits each month
  • ✓Investor CRM and Signal Tracker
Start researching

Fundraising Partner

$199 / monthBilled monthly

  • ✓300 research credits each month
  • ✓300 refresh credits each month
  • ✓Unlimited access to all other features
Choose Partner
One avoided dead-end week pays for the whole year.

Your first check every month is free. No card.

The questions worth asking first.

Including what VCignal will not do.

Isn't this just ChatGPT with a fundraising prompt?

It resolves the investor or fund, researches public firm and person context, checks relevant signals and portfolio context, assesses founder fit, and prepares an evidence-led outreach angle when appropriate.

Do you contact investors for me?

No. VCignal researches public sources and does not claim access to private investor data, private messages, or shared connections it cannot verify.

How do I know the findings are accurate?

“Unclear” is a valid output. The brief should show coverage gaps rather than inflate certainty just to create a score.

Should I trust it over my own read?

VCignal prepares a researched approach and messaging angles when the founder decision supports it. You retain control over whether, when, and how to send anything.

Is this another investor database?

Submit the waitlist form. This temporary standalone page does not support sign-in or product use; every primary action opens the VCignal waitlist form.

Keep building. Check the investor first.

Paste the next name on your list and decide whether the outreach, follow-up, or meeting deserves your time.

  • No card required
  • Your link is never shared
  • Privacy
VVCignal

Legal

Privacy Policy

How VCignal handles personal data in connection with the website, waitlist, product, and related support.

Last updated: July 12, 2026

Foundterra (“we,” “our,” or “us”) operates VCignal. This policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal data when you use VCignal, join its waitlist, contact us, or interact with our services.

Information we collect

  • Waitlist and contact data: name, email, company, role, fundraising context, and information you submit in the waitlist form.
  • Account and profile data: where the product is available, account identity, startup context, investor lists, saved items, research inputs, and related preferences.
  • Usage and technical data: browser, device, approximate location inferred from IP, pages viewed, events, diagnostics, and security logs.
  • Public-source research data: public investor, fund, company, and professional-profile information used to create research outputs.

How we use information

We use information to operate the site and waitlist, provide and secure the product, communicate about access and support, understand reliability and usage, prevent misuse, comply with legal obligations, and improve the service. We do not sell personal information.

Legal bases and choices

Where applicable, we rely on consent, contract necessity, legitimate interests, and legal obligations. You may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, export, or objection by emailing alexz@vcignal.com. You can also use the Data Deletion page.

Sharing and international transfers

We may share data with service providers that help us host, secure, measure, support, bill for, or operate VCignal. The current list is available on the Subprocessors page. Providers may process data internationally, subject to appropriate safeguards where required.

Retention and security

We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described here, including legal, accounting, security, and dispute-resolution needs. We use reasonable technical and organizational controls, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Contact

Privacy, deletion, and support requests: alexz@vcignal.com.

VVCignal

Legal

Terms of Service

Terms that apply to the VCignal website, waitlist, product, and related services.

Last updated: July 12, 2026

These Terms of Service are between you and Foundterra, Israel (“VCignal,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). VCignal is an investor research and outreach-planning product. By accessing the site, submitting the waitlist form, or using the service, you agree to these terms.

Service and no guarantees

VCignal helps founders and teams research public investor and fund information, prioritize investor outreach, evaluate fit and trust signals, and prepare outreach or meeting materials. It may include AI-assisted research, scoring, summarization, and drafting. VCignal does not guarantee replies, meetings, introductions, funding, business outcomes, source accuracy, or investor suitability. It is not investment, legal, financial, tax, compliance, or fundraising advice.

Accounts and acceptable use

You are responsible for activity under your account and for providing accurate information. Do not use VCignal to spam, harass, deceive, unlawfully profile, violate applicable law, resell or publish outputs as a competing data product, bypass security controls, or upload data you do not have the right to use.

Public sources and third parties

VCignal may rely on public websites, public search results, professional profiles, fund websites, news, podcasts, and third-party infrastructure, billing, analytics, search, and AI providers. Public information can be stale, incomplete, or incorrect; third-party services remain governed by their own terms.

Beta access

VCignal may be offered in early-access, beta, or limited-release form. Features may change, break, be rate-limited, or be discontinued. Waitlist submission does not guarantee access, a place in a release wave, or a particular feature set.

Intellectual property and liability

VCignal, including its software, workflows, designs, branding, and service-generated system structure, is owned by Foundterra or its licensors. To the maximum extent allowed by law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available,” and Foundterra will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits, lost opportunities, loss of goodwill, loss of data, or fundraising outcomes.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised terms where permitted by law. Questions: alexz@vcignal.com.

VVCignal

Legal

Cookie Policy

How VCignal uses cookies, local storage, and similar technologies for essential product behavior and optional measurement.

Last updated: July 12, 2026

VCignal uses cookies and browser storage to keep the web app working, remember preferences, protect sessions, and understand service reliability.

Essential storage

  • Authentication and session storage: used by Supabase and related authentication services to keep users signed in and protect account sessions.
  • Cookie-consent preference: stored as vcignal_cookie_consent_v1 so the banner remembers whether you selected essential-only or accepted all.
  • Sidebar preference: the app shell may set a sidebar-state cookie so logged-in workspace navigation opens consistently.
  • Security and diagnostics: limited browser or request metadata may be used to prevent abuse, diagnose errors, and maintain service reliability.

Analytics and measurement

VCignal may use privacy-conscious analytics to understand which pages and workflows are used, where errors occur, and how to improve onboarding. If non-essential analytics are enabled, they should respect your consent choice where required.

Your choices

You can choose “Essential only” or “Accept all” from the cookie banner where provided. You can reset your choice by clearing browser storage for VCignal. Browser settings may also let you block or delete cookies, but blocking essential storage can prevent sign-in and core app features from working.

Contact

Questions about cookies or privacy choices: alexz@vcignal.com.

VVCignal

Legal

Data Deletion

How VCignal users, startups, investors, and funds can request account deletion, data deletion, export, correction, or objection.

Last updated: July 12, 2026

This page provides a public deletion and privacy-request path for VCignal users, startup representatives, investors, fund representatives, and app/API reviewers. To request deletion or another privacy action, email alexz@vcignal.com.

Who can request deletion or correction

  • Account users: account, startup profile, saved items, research inputs, research outputs, and support metadata.
  • Startup representatives: startup profile data, uploaded context, deck links, generated outputs, or other startup-related records.
  • Investors and fund representatives: access, correction, deletion, objection, restriction, or source review for public-source research data.
  • Waitlist contacts: waitlist submissions and related access notes.

What to include

  • Your name, role, and contact email.
  • The email connected to your account or waitlist submission, if applicable.
  • The startup, investor, or fund name and relevant URL where applicable.
  • The requested action: deletion, export, correction, restriction, objection, source review, or account closure.

What we delete and retain

After verifying a request, VCignal aims to delete or de-identify user-controlled account data, startup profiles, saved items, research inputs, generated outputs, waitlist records, and support metadata, subject to necessary legal, security, billing, tax, fraud-prevention, backup, audit, and dispute-resolution retention.

Timing

We aim to acknowledge requests within 7 business days and complete verified deletion, correction, restriction, export, or de-identification within 30 days, unless a longer period is required or allowed by law, security review, backups, or technical constraints.

Contact

Privacy, deletion, correction, export, and objection requests: alexz@vcignal.com.

VVCignal

Legal

Subprocessor List

Service providers that may process data for VCignal infrastructure, billing, research, analytics, support, and security.

Last updated: July 12, 2026

Foundterra uses the subprocessors below to operate VCignal. The exact providers used for a workflow may depend on enabled features, region, plan, and operational configuration.

Current subprocessors

ProviderPurposeProcessing location
Lovable CloudApplication hosting, deployment, and managed project infrastructureUnited States / international
SupabaseDatabase, authentication, Edge Functions, storage, and security logsUnited States / international
FreemiusCheckout, billing, subscriptions, licenses, invoices, and customer portalUnited States / international
SentryError monitoring, diagnostics, and reliability alertsUnited States / international
PostHogConsent-gated product analytics and funnel measurementUnited States / EU / international
ResendTransactional email deliveryUnited States / international
DataForSEOSearch-result and web-data enrichment for investor researchEU / international
ApifyManaged actor execution and temporary dataset processing for public-source researchEU / United States / international
DeepSeekAI-assisted summarization, classification, and draftingInternational
Firecrawl / BrowserbaseWeb crawling and browser automation for public-source researchUnited States / international
You.comSearch and public-source research assistanceUnited States / international

Changes to this list

We may update this list when we add, remove, or replace providers. If a signed DPA or customer agreement requires advance notice or an objection period, those agreement terms control.