Powered by AIMIA, your AI Market Intelligence Analyst, FounderNest taps into the world’s largest market data asset to scout opportunities, identify trends, and deliver deep competitive and market intelligence from a single prompt. No noise. No misses.
Enterprises lose up to 30% of productivity due to outdated legacy tools. FounderNest removes that friction and fuels your next innovation breakthrough.
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.
Quickly identify high-potential startups and emerging players that align with your innovation or investment goals.
Conduct deep market research in minutes, not weeks, all powered by real-time AI analysis of over 10 billion global signals.
Stay informed on how competitors are innovating, expanding, and investing, so your team can respond with confidence.
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 helps you answer critical questions about any company, uncovering key signals, risks, and opportunities so you can move forward with confidence.
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.
Find lookalike companies instantly, helping you explore adjacent players, spot patterns, and uncover hidden alternatives.
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“The beauty of FounderNest is that it understands my search intent and identifies all the relevant startups we need.”
“FounderNest has become an essential tool for us, sharpening our innovation edge and propelling Novo Nordisk towards the future of healthcare.”
“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.”
“Traditional tools can be overwhelming, but FounderNest stands out with a more focused and impactful approach that delivers clearer, more actionable insights.”
“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.”
“Tasks that previously took an analyst three days can now be completed in just a few hours with FounderNest.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The beauty of FounderNest is that it understands my search intent and identifies all the relevant startups we need.”
“FounderNest has completely replaced Crunchbase and CB Insights in our team.”
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Find quick answers to the most common questions about FounderNest and our AI Market Intelligence Analyst.
FounderNest is a natural language AI-native market intelligence platform that helps innovation teams discover, evaluate, and track emerging startups, technologies, and trends faster and more accurately than traditional methods.
FounderNest is not just a dataset or a search tool. It’s powered by AMIA, your AI Market Intelligence Analyst which is an orchestrated network of domain-specific agents that scouts, analyzes, and proactively tracks your markets.
Spaces are where users can create and retrieve personalized content. Each space gives you an overview of your area of interest, understanding the subspaces it's divided into, and example companies. The content is determined by the features contained in your package.
FounderNest is built for corporate innovation teams, CVCs, R&D, M&A, and strategy teams looking to scout startups, assess markets, monitor competitors, and make smarter innovation bets.
Unlike static databases, FounderNest continuously analyzes billions of unstructured data points (news, patents, web activity, etc.) to surface hidden startups, trends, and market signals in real time, many of which are missed by legacy platforms.
You can generate in-depth company profiles, discover similar companies, map entire market spaces, track competitive moves, and monitor ongoing trends - all from a single platform.
FounderNest’s AI constantly ingests and validates data from trusted public and proprietary sources, ensuring that profiles, funding rounds, and activity signals are current and reliable.
Yes. FounderNest supports shared workspaces, Spaces, notes, and exporting features, so teams can collaborate, comment, and align seamlessly across scouting and diligence workflows.
Not at all. FounderNest is built for business users with intuitive prompts, visual market maps, and ready-to-use insights that anyone on your team can explore and act on, all wrapped up in a beautiful, modern user interface.
You can request a personalized demo directly from our team. We’ll walk you through use cases tailored to your goals and show you how to get value right away.
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