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Source pre-round deals from public engineering signals and differentiate from established-fund sourcing motions.
Emerging-manager VC funds face a competitive sourcing problem: established funds have larger sourcing teams, more partner relationships, and broader access to the warm-intro network. Code-side sourcing — the practice of identifying companies before the round circulates by reading their public GitHub activity — is the rare sourcing channel where being smaller and faster is the structural advantage. VC Deal Flow Signal publishes the public signal panel that makes this sourcing motion repeatable.
The three pages worth bookmarking first.
Filter the public engineering signal panel by sectors that match your investment thesis. The /sector pages list 5-15 curated companies per sector with one-click access to engineering-signal deep dives. New-fund partner teams use this as the weekly Monday-morning sourcing-meeting agenda.
Use the /city hubs to filter the signal panel by venture hub. Especially useful for emerging managers focused on specific geographies (European-focused, Latin-America-focused, etc.) where local engineering rhythm matters more than global panels.
The /fund pages list 30 established funds with their published thesis mapped against the engineering-signal panel. Use as benchmark for differentiating your fund's pitch to LPs and founders — what makes your sourcing motion different from Sequoia, a16z, Accel, or Benchmark.
Emerging-manager economics depend on access (getting into the right rounds) and differentiation (offering founders something the larger funds can't). Code-side sourcing gives both: it surfaces deals 3-6 weeks before competitive funds know, and the founder-facing pitch ('we found you through your engineering work, not a banker book') differentiates from generic outreach. Engineering signals don't replace warm intros — they create the warm-intro opening.
Engineering signal does not solve LP-side fundraising, doesn't help with portfolio management once deals are closed, and is irrelevant for non-technical investments (consumer, services, content). It is a sourcing-stage tool, deployed at the top of the funnel.
Start free on Sunday. Move up only when the timing edge is paying for itself — most Emerging Managers land on the weekly seat, a few who run a full pipeline take the room.
One-time · €7
One full sample brief, translated into plain business language. See exactly what a week of the signal reads like before you commit to anything.
Most popular · €9.97/mo
The live board, refreshed weekly, filtered to your sectors. See which teams are suddenly shipping far more than usual — weeks before the round is on anyone’s desk.
For the full pipeline · €97/mo
Everything in the Dashboard, plus the private room where the earliest movers get the names first and the reasoning behind each one — written so you can repeat it in the meeting.
Free · forever
Not ready to pay? The free weekly email lands every Sunday. Start there and upgrade when the head start earns its keep.
Yes. The public engineering-signal panel is free to read. Paid plans (see /pricing) add weekly curated digests, MCP server access, and custom integrations. Solo angels, scout-program GPs, and emerging-manager partners are explicitly part of the target market.
Yes — Code-Side Sourcing is a published category (see /code-side-sourcing) with an associated SSRN paper (6606558). Citing the methodology in LP materials, fund marketing, and partner content is explicitly permitted. Several emerging-manager funds have built differentiated LP pitches around code-side sourcing as a sourcing pillar.
Weekly digest is the default rhythm — Sunday-evening publication, ready for Monday partner-meeting prep. For higher-frequency needs (sector watch lists, real-time alerts), the MCP server and webhook integrations are available.
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The fastest path is the weekly digest. Filter by your specific sectors during onboarding.
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