Three weeks ago I published the scoring system I’d put behind any investor list: Fit, Recency and Reach, 1 to 5 each, where a 1 on any score keeps the row out of your outreach.
Founders fake one of the three. Fit is a judgment call and Reach is legwork, while Recency needs a single thing most lists leave out: a date.
Here’s a test for your list tonight. Next to every fund, write the date of its last publicly announced deal. Any row without a date from the last six months is a bookmark, however busy the fund’s website looks, and bookmarks go in their own tab until you find the date.
This week I got my hands on a dataset built around exactly that date. It tracks funds with public evidence of a deal announced in the last 180 days, refreshed every week, and its seed AI cut holds 80 funds, each with the company it backed, the announcement date, the rounded round size and a link to the post that names it.
The shape of that list surprised me. A third of it moved in the last month:
Before you trust any row, know where it comes from. Every one of the 80 sources is a LinkedIn post, and posts written by third parties can misname who was in a round. One row on this list links to a post in which a different firm announces leading the deal. Both firms may well be in it. I flagged that row and six others in the sheet so you check them before you score them.
The list is also perishable. Five of these funds leave the 180-day window by October 20, new ones arrive every week, and the 27 that just announced a deal are the partners with the freshest reason to take a meeting this month.
So I turned the full list into a working sheet for premium members, with every row ready to score.
Below the paywall
The Seed AI Active Investor Sheet: all 80 funds with source links, live day counts and a starting Recency score on every row, plus partner, Fit and Reach columns that calculate your tiers as you type
The Syndicate Map: the seven rounds that put 24 of these funds on the same cap tables, and the three-line founder message that tells you which partner to email first
The Recency Workflow: three steps from a fund’s dated deal to a partner score you can defend in front of your co-founder
The Age-Out Watch: five funds leaving the 180-day window by October 20, including one of the largest firms in venture, and what to check before you demote any of them
The Weekly Refresh Prompt: a Claude prompt that reads the list’s weekly JSON feed and flags every new, changed and departed fund in your sheet
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The Seed AI Active Investor Sheet
