Your AI market intelligence platform
One platform to accelerate deal sourcing, tech scouting, and company tracking, using deeper, more accurate market intelligence.
Enterprises lose up to 30% of productivity due to outdated legacy tools. FounderNest removes that friction and fuels your next innovation breakthrough.
Explore any space and iterate further to perfect results.
Gone are the days of time-consuming market research and missing the perfect startup or hot technologies.
Spaces use specialized agents to scout landscapes, map markets, and keep you ahead in any emerging technology or innovation area.
Target identification.
Quickly identify high-potential startups and emerging players that align with your innovation or investment goals.
Market research.
Conduct deep market research in minutes, not weeks, all powered by real-time AI analysis of over 10 billion global signals.
Competitive intelligence.
Stay informed on how competitors are innovating, expanding, and investing, so your team can respond with confidence.
Company insights powered by AI agents and trained to work like an army of analysts.
We deliver actionable results by optimizing for highest relevance and signals, while our AI reduces noise and finds you more company hits.
Company Intelligence gives you a complete, real-time view of any startup or competitor, helping you assess relevance, track momentum, and make smarter decisions, faster.
Company diligence.
Company diligence helps you answer critical questions about any company, uncovering key signals, risks, and opportunities so you can move forward with confidence.
Company information.
Access reliable, up-to-date company information from an overview and team profiles to funding history and patents so you can start every evaluation with trusted, actionable data.
Similar companies.
Find lookalike companies instantly, helping you explore adjacent players, spot patterns, and uncover hidden alternatives.
Key Features
Smart market intelligence made simple. FounderNest helps you uncover trends, analyze competitors, and spot opportunities with comprehensive, real-time data and AI-driven insights.
Create specific spaces and sub-spaces.
Enhanced company scouting.
Detailed company information.
Natural language AI Copilot.
Discover similar companies that are relevant.
Uncover trends and new technologies.
Track competitive movements.
Built with innovation, M&A and strategy teams in mind.
Get faster, more relevant scouting results from the world's most comprehensive dataset.
Customer feedback
Don't just take our word for it!
"FounderNest gives us key market insights like founding dates and funding history, and expands our reach, helping us hit KPIs by streamlining access to the right opportunities."
Shiva Chandra
Senior Associate.
"The beauty of FounderNest is that it understands my search intent and identifies all the relevant startups we need."
Carlos Cendra
Scouting & Investment Lead.
"FounderNest has become an essential tool for us, sharpening our innovation edge and propelling Novo Nordisk towards the future of healthcare."
Lluc Diaz
Director, Digital Innovation.
"FounderNest has completely replaced Crunchbase and CB Insights in our team. The biggest factor for us was being able to use our time in other impactful ways outside of scouting efforts."
Carmel Appel Raskin
Global Director, Tech Innovation.
"FounderNest helped us find 3x more unique providers than expected and cut scouting time by 30%, allowing us to focus less on searching and more on delivering results."
Marina Lutzenberger
Senior Project Manager Corporate Strategy & Digitalization.
"FounderNest has completely replaced Crunchbase and CB Insights in our team."
Carmel Appel Raskin
Global Director, Tech Innovation
"FounderNest has been a game-changer for us."
Shiva Chandra
Senior Associate
"Traditional tools can be overwhelming, but FounderNest stands out with a more focused and impactful approach that delivers clearer, more actionable insights."
Thomas Froehlich
Technology and Science Lead
"The granularity FounderNest offers helps us filter companies effectively so we don’t miss anything important. We can choose only those that are relevant and focus on the ones that make sense for us."
Susana Jurado
Head of Open Innovation Campus
"Tasks that previously took an analyst three days can now be completed in just a few hours with FounderNest."
Pablo Zabaleta
Associate Partner
"FounderNest helped us discover the hidden 20% of opportunities we would have never found otherwise. We can now map 100% of a space in record time."
Lluc Diaz
Director, Digital Innovation
"FounderNest’s natural language is very intuitive and makes our scouting incredibly easy. It’s such an interesting tool and that’s why we love using it."
Cord Schmidt
Co-founder and Managing Director
"Where FounderNest really adds value is in helping us find providers we wouldn’t have discovered otherwise. Our goal last year was to have at least two of those ‘unique hits’ for our projects - we actually had six."
Marina Lutzenberger
Senior Project Manager Corporate Strategy & Digitalization
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