Investor List Building Service: Verified Investor Lists Built for Your Raise

Our investor list building service gives you a list made for one raise: VCs, family offices, angels, real estate investors and high-net-worth individuals, filtered by ticket size and past deals in your space. Each investor is checked for recent activity and fit, and every email is checked before anyone sends. You get it in a clean sheet, ready for outreach. You can buy the list on its own, or use it as the first step of a full outreach campaign. Some founders use AI to find investors first, and we explain where that works and where it fails. We run this service, so we have a stake in it. That’s why this page also shows you where to get investor data for free, and when that’s enough.

What you get in a verified investor list

Here’s what’s included. It’s the same list you’ll find on our home page:

• Hand-researched lists built for your raise, so every name on it is worth contacting.
• Filtered by ticket size and past deals in your space.
• Decision-maker names, emails and LinkedIn profiles for each investor.
• Each investor checked for recent activity and fit.
• A clean sheet with contacts ready for outreach.
• Built and verified in Apollo, with every email checked before anyone sends.

If you’re not sure which investor types fit your round, we can define the ideal investor profile for your raise first, and rank priority targets by stage, sector and region before the list is built.

Who we put on the list

We pick the mix for your deal. Not every raise needs every type.

• Venture capital firms: for startups raising pre-seed, seed, Series A or Series B, where the fund’s stage and sector match yours. Our seed, Series A and Series B benchmarks show what each stage looks like.
• Family offices: for startups and real estate projects that match what the family has backed before. If you’re deciding between the two, read family office vs venture capital.
• Angel investors: for pre-seed and seed rounds, picked by the sectors and stages they’ve backed before.
• Real estate investors: for development projects and other property deals.
• High-net-worth individuals: for rounds and projects where individuals invest their own money directly.

Who it’s for

AI founders. We work with AI founders raising pre-seed, seed, Series A or Series B rounds. A list for an AI company should be filtered on funds that have actually backed AI companies at your stage, not every fund with “AI” on its website. Our report on how to raise money for an AI startup covers what those investors check. For the wider picture, start with our guide on how to find investors for your startup. Seed, Series A and Series B startups in other sectors. We also raise for FinTech, Health and Hospitality companies. The filters are the same: stage, sector, ticket size and past deals. Real estate developers. For property deals we mainly list family offices, high-net-worth individuals, real estate investors and angels, matched on ticket size and past real estate deals like yours. The real estate developers page has the project version of this list.

How we build and check every contact

A list is only useful if the emails reach real inboxes. Here is how we handle that:

• Lists are built and verified in Apollo.
• Emails are checked and verified before sending.
• LinkedIn profiles are matched to every contact.
• Bad and risky contacts are removed.

This matters because bounced emails can hurt the domain you send from. Apollo’s own help center says hard bounces “can damage your email domain reputation” and that an acceptable bounce rate is “typically under 2%”. It also says contacts verified more than 6 months ago “may need additional enrichment”, because people change jobs and inboxes. Google’s sender guidelines tell bulk senders to keep the spam rate reported in Postmaster Tools below 0.3%. So we check emails close to when they’ll be used, not just once.

Building an investor list vs buying an investor database

Investor databases are useful, and several are free to browse. Here is what a few of them said on their own pages when we checked on October 28, 2026:

• Fundraising Fox calls itself a free, open database of 26,523 venture funds and 230,545 investors, with no login required.
• RaiseHunt says it lists 135,000+ investor profiles across 31,462 firms, with a badge when an email address is on file.
• AngelBacked lists 58,336 angel investors and VCs. Browsing is free, but verified email addresses need a paid plan.
• OpenVC says its investor database has 16,000+ investors.
• Nautis has a free directory of 2,148+ curated investor profiles, with no signup, that you can filter by stage, industry, geography or ticket size.

If you have the time to research and check contacts yourself, start with one of these. What a built list adds is the work on top of the data. AngelBacked’s own numbers show why that work matters: 11,562 of its 58,336 investors have exactly one recorded investment. In its view, “a list of 58,000 names is not 58,000 prospects”, and for most companies the real target set is “somewhere between twenty and eighty people”. That’s one vendor’s estimate, but the point holds. A big download isn’t the same as a short list of investors who fit. SheetVenture estimates that about 60% of useful investor data can be pulled automatically, while the other 40%, such as thesis fit and deployment pace, needs hands-on research. Again, that’s a vendor’s estimate, not an independent study. We use a database too. Our lists are built in Apollo. What you’re paying for is the filtering, the fit checks and the email checks, done for your raise. A word on “buy investor list” offers. Be careful with any seller offering a ready-made file of thousands of investor emails. You don’t know when it was last checked, and Google’s guidelines say plainly: “Don’t purchase email addresses from other companies.”

What happens after the list

You can take the list and run your own outreach. Our investor outreach step by step report shows how. Or we can run it for you. For real estate projects our process runs in four steps: a call about your project, the capital you need and your timeline; a verified list of investors who fit the deal; personalized LinkedIn and email outreach through HeyReach and Instantly, with follow-ups and replies handled; then interested investors booked into calls with you. Campaigns come with weekly numbers on opens, responses and meetings. For what reply and meeting rates look like in published data, see our investor outreach benchmarks.

What we are and what we aren’t

Our Terms say Investor Links is not a broker-dealer, investment adviser, investment bank or funding portal. We don’t sell, offer or recommend securities, negotiate investment terms or handle investor funds. We can’t promise funding, a set number of replies or a set number of meetings. Investment decisions are made only by investors. We’re Top Rated Plus on Upwork. One client wrote: “Working with Zain was great. He got the job done and gave us exactly what is needed.”

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