Pre-seed · Seed
Continuous monitoring of investor activity in your domain — so you know who is actively writing cheques in your space before you start your raise.
Monitors
Most founders build their investor list in the six weeks before a raise. By then, the investors most likely to move quickly have already formed a view on your space from deals they have looked at and passed on. The Synthetic Investor Scout monitors investor activity continuously — so your list is built from evidence of current interest, not a cold search under deadline pressure.
Fund closes and new capital
When an aerospace or deep-tech focused fund closes — or when a generalist fund announces a dedicated aerospace or defence allocation — the Scout flags it with fund size, stated thesis, lead partners, and typical check size. Sources include PitchBook, Crunchbase, SEC EDGAR Form D filings, LP announcement pages, and trade press.
Portfolio additions
When an investor makes a new aerospace or defence investment, the Scout logs it with a profile of the portfolio company — technology domain, stage, geography, round size — and a one-line read on what it signals about their current thesis. Sources include Crunchbase, PitchBook, company press releases, and investor portfolio pages.
Partner moves and thesis signals
When an investment partner at a relevant fund joins, leaves, or publishes a thesis update — blog post, conference talk, LinkedIn post — the Scout captures it. Partner-level thesis tracking is more useful than fund-level tracking because investment decisions are made by individuals, not institutions.
Aerospace and defence deal flow
A running log of aerospace and defence deals closed in the past 30 days, structured by technology domain, stage, geography, and investor. Gives you a live read on what is getting funded, at what valuation, and by whom.
Corporate venture activity
Aerospace and defence corporate venture arms — Airbus Ventures, Boeing HorizonX, Thales, Leonardo, Safran, SAIC, In-Q-Tel — are active but less visible than institutional funds. The Scout monitors their announced investments and stated priority domains.
Government and institutional funding
EIC Accelerator, EDF (European Defence Fund), NATO DIANA, Horizon Europe, DARPA, DIU, and national innovation agency awards relevant to your technology domain. These are not equity investors but signal legitimacy and often trigger follow-on investor interest.
Delivers
Every week, the Synthetic Investor Scout produces a structured investor intelligence brief. The format is designed to inform your raise preparation continuously — not just when you decide to start fundraising.
Weekly investor brief
A structured summary of investor activity in your domain over the past seven days. New investments, fund announcements, partner moves, and thesis signals — all filtered to relevance for your stage, technology, and geography.
Investor profile updates
When an investor on your target list makes a new move — new portfolio company, partner departure, fund close, published thesis update — their profile is flagged in the weekly brief so your list stays current.
Warm signal flags
When an investor's recent activity suggests they are actively looking in your specific domain — two investments in adjacent technologies in the past 60 days, a partner who just published a thesis piece on your category — the Scout flags it as a warm signal and explains why.
Raise Package integration
All intelligence accumulated by the Synthetic Investor Scout carries forward automatically into your Raise Package when ordered. The longlist is built from six or more months of live monitoring, not a cold search conducted under deadline. Investors on the list have been tracked against your specific thesis — fit rationale is evidence-based, not generic.
Immediate alerts
Sent outside the weekly cycle when a highly relevant event occurs — a fund that has been watching your space closes a large new fund, a direct competitor raises from an investor you were planning to approach, or a corporate venture arm signals entry into your domain.
Replaces
Role
Pre-raise investor research — typically done manually by the founder
Cost
3–4 weeks of founder time at the moment of highest deadline pressure
Time to value
Founder-built lists are typically assembled in the 6 weeks before a raise — under time pressure, without continuity, and without live signal data
Most founders spend three to four weeks building their investor list manually before a raise. They use Crunchbase, read blog posts, ask their network, and produce a list that is already partially stale by the time it is finished. They do not have time to track thesis evolution, partner moves, or recent portfolio additions at the funds they are approaching. The Synthetic Investor Scout runs this process continuously — so by the time you start your raise, you have six or more months of accumulated intelligence on every investor on your list. You know who moved recently, who is actively investing in your domain, and who has warm signals. That changes the quality of the first conversation.
Scope
The Synthetic Investor Scout is an intelligence function. It monitors signals and builds structured knowledge about investors. It is not a relationship function.
Does not make introductions
It identifies and monitors investors. Introductions require human relationships — either yours, or through the SAV Human Amplified tier.
Does not access private fund data
It monitors publicly available signals — announced investments, fund closes, published theses. It cannot access non-public LP data, fund financials, or confidential investment committee discussions.
Does not replace investor relations
Tracking investor activity is not the same as building investor relationships. The Scout gives you the intelligence to have better first conversations — the conversations themselves are yours to run.
Does not guarantee fit
Investor thesis signals are indicators, not commitments. An investor who recently backed an adjacent company may or may not be interested in yours. The Scout surfaces the signal — you assess the fit.
For
A technical founder at pre-seed or early seed in aerospace or defence who is 6–18 months from a raise and does not want to start investor research from scratch under deadline pressure. You know you will need to raise. You do not have a dedicated person tracking who is investing in your space, at what stage, with what thesis, and who moved recently. Building your investor list the week before you start outreach is the most common and most avoidable fundraising mistake in deep tech. The Synthetic Investor Scout closes that gap continuously — so your raise starts from a position of intelligence, not a cold list.
Active from week one. Investor intelligence accumulates continuously. Carries forward into your Raise Package automatically. Cancel anytime after the first month.
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