Topical Series
Venture Scouting
How scouts and angels source, vet, and refer startups: scout programs, referral networks, and the leading-indicator data that finds deals before the databases do.
Articles in this series (3)
The series runs 2026-08-14 through 2026-08-16, 3 posts so far, newest first below. The spread of publish dates is the cadence: the pillar is maintained, not a one-off essay collection.
Venture Scout Programs: How to Join One and Actually Earn Carry
A practical guide to venture scout programs: what they are, which funds run them, what they pay, and the five-step process to get selected, including how to build verifiable sourcing receipts before you apply.
Pre-Seed Scouting With GitHub Signals: Finding Startups Before Their First Announcement
How to scout pre-seed startups using public GitHub signals, including the thin-footprint caveat that makes pre-seed a verification game rather than a discovery game.
Venture Scouting: How Scouts and Angels Source Deals Before the Databases
How venture scouts and angels source startup deals ahead of Crunchbase and the funding databases, from scout programs to referral networks and leading-indicator data.
How this pillar fits together
"Venture Scouting" is one of 10 topical series on the site, and its scope is deliberately narrow: how scouts and angels source, vet, and refer startups: scout programs, referral networks, and the leading-indicator data that finds deals before the databases do. The keyword set (venture scouting, startup scouting, scout program, angel sourcing) marks the edges of that scope.
Each post in the grid above covers one slice of that scope, and together the 3 posts sequence from measurement (what the signals are) to workflow (what an investor does with them). Read them in publish order if you are new to the series; jump to the newest if you already run a sourcing stack.
The pillar interlocks with the dataset itself: every claim in the series cites the same weekly-recomputed methodology and the same machine-readable feeds, so the essays age as data updates rather than as opinions.
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