Crino solutions for early-stage startups

Use Crino to discover, analyse and prioritise venture capital firms and angel investors backing early-stage and seed-stage startups like yours.

For early-stage founders

Discover and prioritise the right investors for your stage

Stop guessing who might be a fit. Crino helps you identify investors actively deploying capital into early-stage, pre-seed and seed-stage startups – filtered by stage, ticket size, vertical and geography.

Filter VC firms and angels by investment thesis, check size, industry focus, round type and geographic preference.
See which startups they backed recently, including deal terms, valuations and co-investors.
Build highly targeted investor pipelines instead of broad “spray and pray” outreach.
Identify under-the-radar venture funds, micro-VCs and angel investors aligned with your startup profile.

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Investor discovery filters and early-stage funding tools for startups

Go beyond basic investor lists

Understand each investor’s deal history, thesis and early-stage activity

Crino gives you real context on how venture capital firms deploy capital at the early stage, so you can tailor your pitch to what they care about and improve your chances of securing funding.

Review recent deals by round, valuation range, ticket size and co-investment partners.
Identify patterns in the founders, sectors and regions they consistently back.
Prepare data-driven outreach referencing their portfolio and investment behaviour.
Quickly qualify whether a fund, micro-VC or angel investor is worth your time.

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Data export

Turn investor research into a focused outreach file

For early-stage founders, Professional exports make it easy to move investor shortlists and recent funding rounds into your CRM, spreadsheets, or team planning docs.

Build a clean outreach list from investor profiles and contact fields.
Compare rounds, companies, amounts, industries, and source links while planning your raise.
Download links stay available for 24 hours after each export is prepared.

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See real Pre-Seed & Seed-stage activity

Explore the latest early-stage funding rounds from startups like yours. On Crino, you can dive deeper into each deal — investor profiles, co-investors, industry focus and complete investment history — and access many more early-stage transactions.

July 10, 2026
USD 17m
Seed
Bessemer backs QIZ’s $17m bid to tame quantum cyber risk
Company site
Software
Lead investors
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QIZ Security, the cryptographic posture and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) management platform, has closed a $17m seed round as businesses race to shield their encryption from the looming quantum threat.
The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures, with Evolution Equity Partners, Qbeat Ventures, Singtel Innov8 and Qino Cyber Capital also taking part. The New York-based firm intends to use the capital to fuel its expansion, deepen product development and strengthen its market position as companies confront the shift away from encryption systems vulnerable to quantum attack.
July 9, 2026
USD 20m
Seed
Can AI close the FinCrime investigation gap? Tangos bets $20m
Company site
Fintech
Lead investors
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Tangos AI, an autonomous AI platform for financial crime investigations, has secured $20m in seed funding as it looks to tackle one of compliance's most stubborn bottlenecks.
Red Dot Capital Partners led the round, joined by Leaders Fund, Clarim, Venture Israel, Signal Fire, Clutch Capital and Selah Ventures, alongside a strategic cheque from Bright Data.