investor-company-prospecting
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YC / Investor-Portfolio Prospecting
Find companies backed by a specific investor or accelerator (YC, a16z, Sequoia, etc.) that are hiring for a target role, then find contacts and build personalized outbound.
Core insight: VC portfolio data is public
Every major VC and accelerator publishes their portfolio online. Do NOT waste turns trying to discover portfolio companies through Deepline search tools. Instead, fetch the public portfolio page directly and extract company names from it.
This is faster, cheaper, and more complete than any provider-based approach.
What NOT to do (and why)
These approaches were tested in eval runs and all failed or were extremely wasteful:
Do NOT use Apollo to filter by investor
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