Paid pilot · 4 weeks · 8 briefs

Discover startups raising now that actually match your thesis.

Receive a personalized brief of overlooked pre-seed and seed opportunities gathered from Demo Days, accelerators, pitch events, newsletters, and founder announcements.

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$149 for four weeks. Two briefs each Tuesday. No subscription. No public Crunchbase-style database.

Sample brief · Pilot week 1
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Lattice Compute

Attach-time deterministic-scheduling kernel for serverless AI workloads — cuts cold start latency by 6–9×.

Geography
San Francisco, CA
Founders
ex-Stripe + ex-Lambda Labs
Stage / round
Pre-seed · $1.2M SAFE
Sectors
AI infrastructure · Dev tools

Source signal

Three repeat users booked $40k follow-on before round closed.

Source · YC W26 Demo Day · Captured Mar 12

Who it's for

Solo GPs and micro-VCs backing U.S. pre-seed and seed.

Prewire is for investors whose time is the bottleneck, not their fund size. If you write checks between $100k and $500k and want pre-seed and seed AI and B2B SaaS companies kept on your radar between accelerators and Demo Days, the pilot is built for you.

This is not a network. There's no shared CRM, no warm-intro marketplace, and no scrape-everything firehose. Two briefs a week, hand-curated against the thesis you describe during the intake interview.

What's in each brief

A full 14-field startup record, not a one-liner.

Every Prewire brief is a single company assembled by a human researcher from multiple sources. Skim it, save it, or move on. Every field is filled in.

NameCompany name and one-line tagline.
SourceWhere the lead was first seen — Demo Day, newsletter, accelerator.
SectorVertical(s) with priority ranking applied to your intake thesis.
StagePre-seed, pre-seed + seed, or seed — never more advanced.
GeographyCity + region, mapped to your intake geography preferences.
RoundRound size band and instrument (SAFE, priced, etc.).
FoundersBackground, prior companies, and current status checks.
SummaryTwo-paragraph description of what they're building and why now.
PricingPricing model and the rough revenue trajectory if disclosed.
TractionConcrete signal — pilots, design partners, repeat usage — not vanity growth metrics.
Lead investorIf known — the partner pushing the round forward.
Co-investor interestWho else has been circling, including notable angels.
Allocation readHow well the lead maps to the intake you submitted (1–5).
Source signalA quote from the original announcement or speaker notes.
How it works

Tell us your thesis. Get two briefs a week.

  1. 1

    Intake

    Submit the thesis intake form: sectors, stage, check size, founder profile, calibration anchors, and the success criterion you will judge Prewire on.

  2. 2

    Calibration call

    A 30-minute interview so we can pin down what "overlooked" and "match" mean for you — not for the average fund.

  3. 3

    Two briefs a week

    Every Tuesday for four weeks, two companies delivered to your inbox with full source provenance and a one-line allocation read.

Two briefs every Tuesday for four weeks — eight briefs over the run of the pilot. No daily digest of everything that raised. No push alerts you didn't ask for.

Where the data comes from

Public deal sources, read by hand every week.

Sources a real investor would check — never a private data provider a startup would ask you to remove them from.

  • Accelerator Demo DaysYC, Afore, Neo, banach, Pioneer, Era — public cohorts only.
  • Independent pitch eventsNYC + SF pitch nights, founder showcases, regional demo competitions.
  • NewslettersCurated funds-and-startups digests read end-to-end each week.
  • Founder announcementsPublic launch posts, hiring pages, and open-source project writes.
  • Academic spinoutsLab-to-startup news from U.S. AI and bio university groups.
  • Manual researchDirect outreach to operators and angels for unannounced raises.
What this isn't

A firewall between you and the things you already don't need.

Not a Crunchbase replacementThere is no public directory to search. Briefs only land in your inbox.
Not a shared CRMNo multi-investor pipelines, no tags, no dashboard built for a team.
Not a warm-intro marketplacePrewire is read-only. We surface the lead, you take the next step yourself.
Not an AngelList integrationNo syndicate flows, no rolling funds, no co-invest alongside the fund.
Not a portfolio trackerDeal-by-deal history is not in scope for the pilot.
Not an open startup databaseBriefs are private to you. Companies are never listed publicly by Prewire.

If you want a public startup database, a shared CRM, or a warm-intro exchange, Prewire is not the tool. The pilot is built to validate one job: a founder raises pre-seed or seed, and Prewire surfaces them to you inside two weeks if they fit.

Pilot details

Four weeks. Eight briefs. One short intake interview.

The pilot runs four weeks. You submit a thesis intake form, schedule a half-hour interview so we can calibrate, and your first two briefs land the following Tuesday. We invoice at the end of week one — flat $149, no subscription to cancel.

Pilot fee$149
  • Briefs delivered8 total
  • Cadence2 per week · Tuesday
  • Window4 weeks
  • IntakeForm + 30 min call
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Early-stage pilot

Prewire is a one-operator pilot. Briefs are hand-curated, intake is reviewed personally, and the schema behind every record is small and deliberately so. We're validating the format before opening it up — if that's not the experiment you're looking for, no problem.