How to use FTW Hub

If you don't already have an account, head to the Hub — sign-in or sign-up takes ~30 seconds (Google or email).

Open FTW Hub →

Once you're in, everything else is downstream of your profile. The match engine, fit score, and intro pre-flight all read from it. Open Profile from the top-right and fill in:

• Description, sectors, stage, country, business model — these drive the embedding that powers fit scoring.
• Website + Pitch Deck — at least one is required to request an intro.
• Target raise + check size context — used by the check-size signal in the score.
• Investor Network — log every fund that has invested in you. Drives the "In my network" filter and unlocks co-investor discovery.

The sidebar on Funds shows a banner if your profile is incomplete. Fix it once and forget it.

The Funds tab is your investor universe — every approved, active fund in the FTW database, ranked by fit score for your specific company.

Use the sidebar to narrow:

• Industries / Investor Type / Investment Role / Country — standard filters.
• Check Size — slider; shows funds whose stated range covers your number.
• Intro possible — funds where the FTW team can facilitate an intro.
• Featured on IC Podcast — funds whose partners have appeared on the Investment Climate Podcast.
• In my network — funds that have already co-invested with one of your investors. The warmest path on the platform.
• Saved — your hearted funds; export to CSV.

Type in the navbar search bar and press Go (or Enter) to search by fund name. Typing alone doesn't refetch — it's deliberate so the list doesn't flicker.

Click any fund to open its detail page. What you'll find:

• Investor Fit bar — score 0–100 combining embedding similarity (50%), sector overlap (20%), check size fit (20%), and geography (10%). ≥70 is a Strong Match; ≥40 is a Match.
• Thesis, sectors, geography, check size — what they say they fund.
• Known Investments — every Investment Round we have on record for them, with the startup, series, and date.
• Co-Investors — funds that have backed the same startups. If you're a founder, your existing investors that have co-invested with this fund show first as the warm path.
• Request Intro — for funds where it's available, this opens the intro flow (covered in Guide 02).

Heart a fund to save it for later; toggle "Saved" in the sidebar to filter to that list.

The Startups tab is the same idea applied to companies. Use it to:

• Find peers raising in your sector — see their stage, country, and prior investors.
• Toggle In my network to surface only startups that share at least one investor with you.
• Find startups whose leadership has been on the IC Podcast (and listen for the founder POV before reaching out).

Click into any startup for their public profile, including prior investors and (when available) their leadership team.

The Pipeline tab is your fundraise board — every fund you're pursuing, tracked from first interest to closed round so nothing slips. It's free for every founder.

• Stages — move each fund through Discovered → Getting Intro → In Discussions → Due Diligence → Closed.
• Notes & contacts — keep a dated journal and the partner's details right on the card, shared across your team.
• Priority & nudges — flag your top targets and spot cards that have gone quiet, so you always know what to chase next.
• Export — pull the whole board to CSV any time.

Add any fund to your Pipeline from its profile, or add a fund we don't have yet with Add a lead.

New: you can now connect FTW Hub to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini and ask it, in plain English, to search investors, score your fit, manage your Pipeline, and draft intro requests — all on live data scoped to your own account, with the same permissions you have on the web.

How to connect your AI →

FTW+ ($150 / month, billed every 3 months) unlocks everything:

• Full investor database — every approved fund, no blurred cards, plus the intelligent matching engine.
• Unlimited facilitated intros — request as many as you like; you only pay $250 when an intro is successfully made. No upfront charge, no quota, and zero commission on your raise.
• Strategy onboarding plus a weekly Pipeline Review with a real person.

To request an intro: open a fund profile → click Request Intro → you'll be checked against the pre-flight gates (active FTW+, profile completeness, a reasonable fit score, no duplicate request). Pass the gates, write a short note, and submit. Track status on your startup profile, on your Pipeline card, or by asking your AI assistant.