<p><b>Startup description</b></p><p>We use social media tracking to infer which people the best seed and pre-seed venture capitalists and angel investors are interacting with online. We augment and filter our results using AI. We offer both a human-edited newsletter (monetized by subscriptions) and a data delivery service (where we deliver raw CSV files weekly to clients), which are powered by scraping / AI enrichment / AI filtering.</p><p><b>Key highlights:<b></b></b></p><ul><li>$25.5k ARR ($7.5k TTM revenue)</li><li>~$1.5k profit per month as of this month (we decreased costs, automated more, etc)</li><li>11.1% subscriber churn, 5.2% revenue churn</li><li>20% month-on-month growth</li><li>About half revenue comes from $29/mo newsletter subscriptions, the rest comes from $100/mo+ plans for the custom data service</li><li>Several top VC firms on our mailing list / as subscribers.</li></ul><p><b>Team</b></p><p>Running this solo. There's 1-4 hr a week in maintenance required to edit the newsletter, send out emails, etc.</p><p><b>Tech Stack</b></p><p>TypeScript, Next.js, LLMs, Substack, Postgres, Redis.</p><p><b>Marketing and growth</b></p><p>Advertising (Beehiiv, Facebook, Meco) has been a waste of money. Cold outreach to VCs has been effective. I haven't invested much in social media.</p><p><b>Startup assets<b></b></b></p><ul><li>2 Substacks with ~900 subscribers total</li><li>Stripe account with all of the subscriptions</li><li>Tech used to run everything (dashboard, AI tooling, etc)</li><li>Twitter account / LinkedIn page.</li></ul><p><b>Summary</b></p><p>If you're interested in building and expanding tools in the VC space, this is a great launching off point with an engaged and paying user base that is highly targeted on early-stage VCs.</p></br>✅ $7,800 in ARR✅ 900 subscribers✅ Business model: SaaS✅ Built with Substack, Next.js, PostgreSQL