Find pre-seed founders before they fundraise.
Describe your thesis founder. Get 20-50 builders who match the pattern before they hit Crunchbase.
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You sourced your last three term sheets through warm intros and Twitter DMs. One returned 8x. The other two are flat. Your LP update is next month. The problem isn't your evaluation. It's that warm intro deal flow is a popularity contest, not a thesis-driven strategy.
The funds that consistently outperform don't see better deals. They see them earlier. They found the payments infrastructure engineer who left Stripe six months before she incorporated. They built a relationship with the clinical operations director who was frustrated with trial management software two quarters before he started building the replacement. Those founders were identifiable by trajectory, not by company. No demo day, no AngelList signal, no co-investor introduction. Just a career pattern that matched a thesis.
Translate your thesis into a founder description: the company pedigree, the domain expertise, the career transition that signals someone is about to build. CloneICP finds 20-50 matching professionals. You reach them when your conviction and early support are the differentiator, not your valuation.
Conviction deals start before the fundraise.
What You Get
What You'll Get
Every search returns clear output in under 60 seconds.
20-50 Matched Founders
Builders and operators whose career trajectories match the archetype from your best portfolio investments.
Match Scores
Each founder ranked by trajectory fit. Focus relationship-building on the closest pattern matches.
Why They Match
See specific signals: company pedigree, domain expertise, career transition, technical depth.
CSV Export
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How It Works
Describe Your Target
Tell us who you're looking for in plain language.
AI Finds Matches
We analyze signals and find matching professionals.
Export Results
Up to 50 matches, ready for your enrichment tool.
How This Is Different
You know the sourcing problem. Here's what changes.
- Databases index companies after they've raised, when the signal is gone
- Accelerator demo days show you the same founders every other fund sees
- Warm intros through co-investors create consensus deals, not conviction deals
- No way to systematically search for 'founders who match my thesis'
- Describe the founder archetype from your highest-conviction investments
- Find professionals who match the pattern before they start fundraising
- Source independently of the warm intro and demo day cycle
- Build relationships early when your support creates real differentiation
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