FoundMatter
Find relevant startups. Build investment cases that hold up.
FoundMatter connects mandate-driven startup sourcing and evidence-led evaluation for investors with investor-readiness workflows and permissioned matching for founders.
Automated and recurring startup pipelines
Hard facts and soft facts for any company
Adaptive founder work that produces evidence
Permissioned introductions after fit is clear
Founder experience
Paul Krügel
Built from 80+ startup rooms—not just a scoring model.
Track record and case studies- 80+
- AI and technology startups accelerated
- USD 25M+
- Fundraising by supported technology and Web3 startups
- 150+
- Evaluation, training, and jury contexts
- 50+
- Advisory and investment roles
Accelerator, advisory, and venture work
Cumulative rounds across supported companies
Pitch rooms, programs, demo days, and events
AI, SaaS, fintech, infrastructure, and Web3
A qualified pipeline, with the evidence attached.
Use FoundMatter for sourcing, evaluation, and focused pipeline review—separately or together. Every company explains why it surfaced, what changed, where the information came from, and what remains unknown.
Nova Systems
Vienna, AT / Pre-seed / Industrial AI
A defensible investment case starts beneath the deck.
FoundMatter identifies the current constraint, gives the team practical work, and turns the result into company evidence the founders control. Small teams work at their own pace.
Turn promising conversations into a repeatable buying signal.
Current module
Three decisions, not thirty lessons
Run five interviews against one urgency hypothesis.
Choose the segment after the evidence threshold is reached.
Connect the round size to the next proof point.
Work that survives the session
Problem, buyer, why now, proprietary insight
Exact alternatives, triggers, and budget ownership
Round purpose, milestone, and investor narrative
Evidence before confidence.
FoundMatter combines structured hard facts with founder, execution, experience, and public soft signals in one practical evaluation.
Useful before the network becomes large.
Investors bring a company or a mandate.
Evaluate an existing opportunity or generate an automated search pipeline without waiting for a large registered startup directory.
Founders work privately by default.
Strengthen the business and produce useful outputs before choosing what becomes visible for matching or introductions.