Guides
Practical, no-fluff playbooks on finding investors and running a fundraise. Written for founders raising pre-seed to Series A.
Finding & researching investors
Build a target list, vet fit, and find warm intros without wasting weeks.
How to Find Investors for Your Startup
A practical, step-by-step guide to finding the right investors for your startup — how to scope your target list, vet investor fit, and avoid wasted pitches.
How to Research a VC Before You Pitch
A 15-minute research routine for evaluating any VC before you pitch — activity, stage fit, thesis, partner-level research, and portfolio conflicts.
How to Build an Investor Target List
A repeatable, six-step process for building a tiered investor target list — filters, sources, qualification, and outreach sequencing for a real fundraise.
How to Tell if a VC Is Still Actively Investing
Five signals that tell you whether a venture firm is actually deploying capital — or quietly between funds, harvesting, or winding down.
10 Best Investor-Matching & Fundraising Platforms for European Founders
A researched, sourced comparison of 10 platforms European founders use to find and reach investors — database size, targeting precision, and pricing, plotted on one chart.
The fundraising process
Pitch, valuation, equity, and timeline — the mechanics of running a round.
How investors actually work
Theses, evaluation criteria, co-investment — see the round from the other side.
Angel Investors vs VCs: Which Should You Raise From?
The real differences between angel investors and VCs — check size, decision speed, dilution, value-add — and how to mix both in a single round.
What VCs Actually Look For in a Pitch
The five things VCs really evaluate in a pitch — team, market, traction, business model, and round fit — plus what doesn't matter as much as you think.
Compare
How Brouky stacks up against other investor-matching tools.
Brouky vs OpenVC
AI-ranked fit scores vs a free, filterable investor directory with deck-tracking and outreach tools.