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Find investors for your startup,
with the reasons shown
Lists are easy; fit is hard. Ishara ships 32,822 investors and answers the question that matters, which of them fit this raise: a ranked shortlist with the reason for every name, the warm paths you already have, a prep brief per meeting, and the outreach run from the same CRM.
The real problem
Finding investors is a ranking problem, not a search problem.
Anyone can export 500 names. Rounds close on the 40 that actually fit, the dozen you can reach warm, and the follow-up that never slips. If you are working out how to find investors for your startup, those are the three jobs to solve, and Ishara is built around them.
A shortlist that argues its case
Describe the raise (sectors, stages, locations, cheque) and Find my investors returns a ranked shortlist where every name carries the reason it is on it. The match page is a shareable URL, so your co-founder argues with the same list.
Warm paths you already own
Ishara mines your own workspace for routes in: colleagues who know the investor, your peer graph, records at the firm's email domain, and portfolio companies already in your CRM. Cold outreach becomes the fallback, not the plan.
A prep brief before every meeting
One minute before the call, a grounded AI brief per investor, built from corpus facts plus your own warm paths. Nothing invented, and nothing written to a record until you accept it in the review queue.
Describe the raise
From a described raise to a working funnel in one sitting.
Tell Ishara your sectors, stages, geography, and cheque. The shortlist comes back ranked with reasons, not an opaque score. Multi-select a page of names and send them into a staged raise pipeline; Add to CRM is idempotent, so re-running the search next week cannot create duplicates.
- Cheque-size containment: only investors whose published range contains your cheque
- Fit scores that state their reason, name by name
- Multi-select into a staged raise funnel, ready to work
Diligence both ways
A directory deep enough for the follow-up questions.
Behind every ranked name is a full profile: thesis, track record by round, career, press, peers, and ranked list seats. Every value carries its provenance, self-declared claims never share a column with verified facts, and truncated counts show as 50+ instead of a guess.
- Five doors into the corpus: Investors, Companies, Firms, Lists, Ecosystem
- 34,097 photos downloaded and self-hosted, so profiles do not rot
- A backers drill-down behind every company in a track record
The honest part: regional investor data is thin everywhere.
Global databases barely see this region, and Ishara will not pretend otherwise: of the 32,822 investors in the directory, only 175 are located in MENA today. That gap is the reason the product exists, not a footnote. An enrichment adding 272 regional investment entities and 572 investor people is running now, in progress rather than done, with every value provenance-labelled as it lands. Alongside it sit 1,793 bilingual Saudi ecosystem organisations: funds, accelerators, incubators, and angel groups.
We wrote up the gap, and the plan to close it, in The MENA investor gap.
From shortlist to term sheet, without leaving the record
Outreach runs on the record, not in a separate tab. Gmail and Outlook connect two-way, threads land on the investor they belong to, and the template picker sorts by real reply rates, so the words that worked rise to the top. Variables carry fallbacks, and a send guard blocks any email with an unresolved variable before it embarrasses you.
Sequences keep the follow-up honest: steps go out on schedule until a reply pulls the contact out automatically, so no investor gets step three after answering step two. Engagement analytics (send-time heatmap, A/B panel, decay alerts) show which of your emails earn replies, and the next batch improves on the last.
The raise itself lives on a staged pipeline: a kanban by stage, notes and files on each record, comments with mentions for your co-founder, and win and loss outcomes recorded at the end, so the next raise starts from evidence. The machinery is on record email and pipelines.
A worked funnel. Say matching returns 300 plausible names and you keep the 90 whose cheque range contains your $400k average ticket and whose reasons hold up. Warm paths surface 25 reachable through a colleague, a peer, or a portfolio founder; the other 65 go into two cold sequences. At a 30 percent warm meeting rate and 8 percent cold, that is roughly 13 first meetings before a single manual follow-up. Those rates are illustrative and yours will differ: the free raise pipeline calculator runs the same math on your numbers.
Frequently asked questions
How does Ishara find investors for my startup?
You describe the raise: sectors, stages, locations, and cheque size. Ishara filters 32,822 investors by cheque-range containment and fit, then returns a ranked shortlist where every investor carries an explicit reason for its position. The match page is a shareable URL, warm paths mined from your own CRM show who can introduce you, and a multi-select sends the names you choose into a staged raise pipeline without creating duplicates.
How strong is the data for a MENA-based raise today?
Honest answer: the global set is deep, at 32,822 investors with 34,097 self-hosted photos, but only 175 of those investors are located in MENA today, because regional data is thin in every database, not just ours. An enrichment adding 272 regional investment entities and 572 investor people is in progress, and 1,793 bilingual Saudi ecosystem organisations are already in. For cross-border raises the directory is strong now; the regional set grows as the enrichment lands.
What does it cost to run a raise on Ishara?
Early-access pricing: a Free tier to start, Pro at $12 per seat per month, Business at $39 per seat per month, and custom Enterprise plans. Plans may evolve as early access matures. A raise is usually one or two seats, so the tooling costs less than one flight to a partner meeting.
Stop working the market blind.
The investors, the tenders, and the signals are in Ishara from day one. You bring the deals.
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