The 1-minute Gatsbie tour (turn the sound on)

Every founder raising a round ends up with the same three jobs: find the right investors, reach them, and keep track of who's interested. Several tools help with parts of that. This guide compares five of them (Gatsbie, Metal, OpenVC, Foundersuite and Visible), so you can pick the one that fits how you raise.

The short version

  • Gatsbie is built around AI fit: upload your deck, and Gatsbie scores thousands of funds against your startup, explains every match, drafts a personalised email for each, and tracks when investors open your email, profile or deck. Every fund profile shows a written investment thesis and the fund's portfolio companies, and you can browse them for free. Investors can use it the other way round, screening startups against their thesis.
  • Metal is the closest alternative to Gatsbie: an AI fundraising platform that ranks investors, analyses their theses and past deals, and maps warm-intro paths through your Gmail and LinkedIn. It has no open directory or free plan. Access starts with a demo, and pricing is quoted by stage.
  • OpenVC is a large free investor directory with a simple way to submit your deck to investors who accept cold pitches. Profiles list themes, stages and countries, but no portfolio companies.
  • Foundersuite is a long-established fundraising CRM with one of the largest investor databases (216,000 investors including LPs and family offices).
  • Visible is strongest at investor relations after the raise: investor updates, data rooms and deck analytics, plus a free investor database.

Side-by-side

Gatsbie Metal OpenVC Foundersuite Visible
Investor database 12,900+ public-source investor profiles (VCs, PE, family offices, CVCs, angels), browsable for free Size not published; no open directory (investors surface through its matching engine) 16,000+ investors 216,000 investors incl. LPs, family offices, HNW 19,000+ investor records (Visible Connect, free)
Investment thesis Written thesis on almost every fund profile Thesis patterns per investor (paid platform) One-line funding requirements and theme tags Description, stage and sector focus Stage and sector tags, check size
Portfolio companies Portfolio companies listed on the fund profile Similar past investments per investor (paid platform) Not shown List of previous deals Recent investments
Matching AI match: score (0–100), verdict (e.g. Strong Buy) and a written reason for every fund AI ranking of investors most likely to lead your round Search with filters (4 free, 10 on Premium) Database search Database search
Profile from your deck Upload a deck → AI fills your startup profile Not listed Deck review / feedback Not listed Not listed
Outreach emails Ready-to-send, personalised email for each matched fund; send via Gatsbie or your own mailbox AI-drafted intro requests for warm introductions Contact up to 5 investors/day (Premium) Email tools and AI email generation (paid plans) Investor updates from your own domain
Warm intros Not listed Maps intro paths through your Gmail and LinkedIn Not listed Not listed Not listed
Engagement tracking Email opens, startup-profile views and deck views, even when you send from your own mailbox Not listed Deck sharing with engagement tracking Not listed Per-slide deck analytics (Core plan)
Investor CRM Pipeline from To contact → In talks → Invested Investor CRM with meeting briefs and call analysis Fundraising CRM Core product (pipelines up to 1,500 investors) Unlimited pipelines (paid)
Add a fund by URL Paste a website; Gatsbie scrapes thesis, portfolio and partner emails Not listed Not listed Not listed Not listed
For investors Screen up to 20 startups at once against a fund's thesis, with a fit score and full report for each Not listed Investor-side deal-flow inbox Not listed Portfolio reporting for VCs
Built-in assistant Ask Gatsbie (AI assistant) Agent Mode (AI agent) Not listed Not listed Not listed
Free plan Yes: 1 AI match/month, 20 profiles, 20 CRM saves No; demo first, then a trial Yes Yes (Basic) Yes (Starter)
Paid from €6.67/month (billed quarterly) Custom quote by stage and round (not published) $99/month or $299/year $745/year (Silver) $59/month billed annually (Base)

Prices and features as published on each company's website in October 2026. "Not listed" means we couldn't find the feature on the company's public pages. Metal's thesis and portfolio views come from its product documentation; we could not see them without a paid account.

When to choose each

Choose Gatsbie if you want to stop guessing which investors fit. Instead of filtering a list yourself, you get a ranked shortlist where every fund has a score, a verdict and a reason, plus a draft email ready to send. You can read each fund's thesis and portfolio before you reach out, without a sales call. It's also the most affordable paid option here, and the only one in this comparison that lets investors screen startups against their own thesis.

Choose Metal if you're raising a later seed or Series A, your network is strong, and you want warm-intro mapping and meeting coaching, and a quoted, demo-first plan suits you.

Choose OpenVC if you mainly want a long free list of investors and plan to pitch the ones that accept cold decks through the platform. Expect to research each fund's thesis and portfolio elsewhere.

Choose Foundersuite if you need the widest possible database, including LPs and family offices, and want a mature CRM to run a large, process-heavy raise.

Choose Visible if you've already raised and your priority is investor updates, data rooms and reporting to existing shareholders.

Many founders combine tools, for example a directory for research plus a CRM for tracking. Gatsbie aims to cover the full loop of match, outreach, tracking and CRM in one place.

How Gatsbie works, in four steps

  1. Upload your pitch deck. Gatsbie reads it and fills in your profile: stage, sector, traction, team. Turn on stealth mode to keep it private.
  2. Run AI matching. Gatsbie compares your startup with thousands of funds and returns a ranked list with a score, verdict and reason for each.
  3. Send personalised outreach. Every matched fund has a ready-to-send email. Send it from Gatsbie or your own mailbox; either way, you'll see who opened your email, your profile or your deck.
  4. Track your pipeline. Move funds from To contact to In talks to Invested in your investor CRM.

Start free at gatsbie.net · ▶ Watch the 1-minute tour

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