BERLIN, DE– October 16, 2025 – SheetVenture has launched its 2026 fundraising intelligence platform, built to end the chaos for founders. The system replaces the broken startup investor database with a live active investors list of VCs and private equity firms who are actually writing checks. This move cuts the time it takes to find investors for startup growth by getting rid of dead-end leads and stale data.
Fundraising is a flawed process that burns a founder’s most valuable resource: time. Startups are told to build a list of venture capital firms, but every available venture capital database is outdated the moment it’s published. Founders waste hundreds of hours chasing ghosts—investors who are no longer active, have shifted their focus, or simply will not reply. This “spray and pray” approach shortens the runway and kills the momentum needed to close a round.
SheetVenture was built by founders to fix this. It is not another static list; it is a dynamic intelligence engine that monitors the private markets in real time. It delivers a single source of truth, giving founders confidence that every investor they target is currently deploying funds. This transforms fundraising from a frustrating, low-return grind into a strategic, data-driven mission. With its simplified global access, SheetVenture gives startups a critical advantage in identifying the top venture capital firms 2026 before they become widely known.
The platform’s power comes from its direct, no-fluff approach. It tracks where capital is flowing across industries, stages, and geographies, giving founders a real-time view of investor interest. This allows them to validate their market and align their pitch with proven demand—a capability that is impossible with a conventional startup funding database. Instead of guessing which sectors are hot, founders know exactly which markets are attracting checks.
Furthermore, an AI-powered scoring system analyzes a startup’s profile—including its industry, business model, and funding stage—to intelligently rank the best-fit investors from its unified venture capital database and private equity database. This function turns a massive, overwhelming list of names into a prioritized, actionable outreach plan. Founders can now focus their energy on the VCs and private equity professionals most likely to engage, saving countless hours of manual work and guesswork.
Simplicity is at the core of the SheetVenture experience. There are no locked-in CRM systems or complicated workflows. Founders can filter their target investor list by specific criteria, including check size, geography, and industry focus, and download it directly to a clean spreadsheet. This empowers them to build a hyper-targeted active investors list in minutes and integrate it into their existing outreach process without friction. The goal is to get founders out of spreadsheets and into investor meetings that actually matter. By delivering this level of accuracy and real-time intelligence in a simple, fast platform, SheetVenture is setting a new standard for modern fundraising.
About Us
SheetVenture is a live intelligence platform for private markets, built for founders who refuse to waste time. We track the investors that matter and watch how capital shifts—all in real time. Our startup funding database filters out the noise, focusing only on the 30,000+ VCs and Private Equity professionals who have written checks in the last 18 months. We combine fresh data from our venture capital database and private equity database with smart scoring to help founders raise smarter, move faster, and