Early-stage investors
“Early-stage” is the largest stage tag in the database and the least precise one. It is what an investor writes when they do not want to commit to a specific entry point, which makes it useful for reach and close to useless for targeting on its own.
How to read these numbers: 1,000+ of the 5,000+ active investors in the database (20.7%) state an investment stage at all — most describe the sectors they fund and not the stage. The percentage above is therefore a share of those who said, not of every investor. Stages also overlap, because an investor writing “seed to Series A” is counted under both, so shares across all stages add up to more than 100%. No cheque-size figure is published anywhere on this page: cheque size is recorded for too few investors to report honestly.
How to approach this stage
Treat this tag as a starting filter, never a finishing one. An investor who says early-stage may mean pre-seed cheques or may mean a Series A fund that considers itself early relative to growth capital. The overlap figures below show how often these same investors also carry a specific tag — where they do, use the specific one.
This label is also the clearest example of why the raw database numbers understate reality. “Early stage” appears in the underlying data under dozens of different spellings — hyphenated, capitalised differently, or extended into phrases like “early-stage technology” — and reading only the single most common spelling undercounts the real total substantially. Every figure on this page is computed after folding those variants together, which is why the count here is larger than a naive query would return.
Practically, if you are choosing between sending to an early-stage-tagged investor and one tagged with your exact stage, send to the specific one first. The early-stage pool is where you go for breadth once the precise matches are exhausted.
What else these investors tag themselves
Other stages listed by the same investors. A high overlap means the tag is a range rather than a fixed entry point, and that you should not exclude these investors when targeting an adjacent stage.
- Seed
- Growth
- Series A
- Pre-seed
- Angel
- Series B+
What they fund
Sector focus areas most common among investors at this stage. Stage labels are excluded, so this is what they invest in rather than when.
- Tech
- Technology
- SaaS
- FinTech
- AI
- Fintech
- Consumer
- Generalist
Where they are based
- San Francisco
- Stockholm
- London
- Berlin
- Tel Aviv
- Singapore
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