As we launch Byblos Digital app on the 30th of July (two days away!), I wanted to hop on here to speak about the problems we want to solve, and why you should use our app.
Founder’s job is to build. Raising is hard enough without spending hours on VC research by hand. It has a hidden time-sink. Before a founder ever pitches, they have to figure out who to pitch — which funds are active, which invest at their stage, which care about their sector, and what those investors currently believe. That research is slow, manual, and it's not building the company. Founders do it anyway because getting it wrong wastes the raise.
Here are the complaints we hear most, what you want instead, and how Byblos helps. There is a demo video near the end.
Tell us how many of these you have hit.
You only reach out to Tier-1 investors with your first pitch because they are easy to find. Surely, they almost never respond.
You are about to pitch a fund, but the only thing you have read is some blog post definitely not enough to speak their language.
You send 100 cold emails and hope that something sticks. You do not know which 10 investors are actually active, and how to approach them.
The partner references their thesis you’ve never head of while in the meeting. The only thing you can do is nod.
You pitch a fund one angle. Later you find out they moved into your sector last month and wanted a different one.
You work off a “top VC” list. Half of it is two years old. Some of those funds stopped investing.
You subscribed to 50 VC newsletters. You read maybe 3 of them.
You cannot tell if your sector is getting more investor attention or less. So you time your raise on a guess.
You spend two hours a week reading VC news. Next week you start over, and none of it gives enough insight.
Most founders we talk to hit five or six of these. None of it is a you problem.
Walk into every meeting knowing what that investor wrote this month.
A short list of the funds active in your sector, not a stale directory.
One briefing that covers everything, instead of 50 unread newsletters.
A read on whether investor attention on your sector is rising or falling, from data.
Research you do not have to redo every week.
Byblos Digital reads VC newsletters so you do not have to. It offers aggregated intel from 1,400+ investors and 60,000 newsletters in one place. Every piece is tagged by sector, theme, funding round, people move, and sentiment. Then it gives you what matters for your raise.
One feed, followed VC. Every newsletter sits in one place. You read it here, not across 50 inboxes. You also do not have to hand over your email to each firm.
Intel. Any newsletter becomes tagged data. Funding rounds, people moves, thesis shifts. This is what powers everything above.
Filters. Sort the feed by fund, sector, theme, sentiment, content type, and other preferences. Find the investors active in your space in seconds.
VC Index cards. Open a card for any fund. See what they invest in, what they focus on, what they have been writing, and their links. Read this before you pitch.
Conviction tracking. See how much each sector is discussed over time, and whether the tone is positive or negative.
Watchlist. Build a list of your target funds. Track what they write during your raise. Fixes problems 1 and 4.
Sign up. Pick your sectors and themes.
Follow the VCs you are targeting. Or let Byblos suggest them by sector.
Before any pitch, open that fund’s card. Read what they have written lately.
During your raise, keep your target funds on the watchlist and check what they write.
Here is a short demo:
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All of the Byblos Team: Lina, Ekin, Feri, Mert, Mike
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