# AngelBacked

> AngelBacked is a searchable database of 58,000+ angel investors and venture capital firms. Founders use it to find investors by industry, funding stage, check size, and location, view portfolios and contact details, and research fundraising topics.

Key facts:
- 58,000+ investor profiles: angel investors, VCs, family offices, and accelerators
- Filterable by industry/market (50+ verticals), country, US state and city, funding stage (pre-seed through growth), and check size
- Includes investor contact details, portfolio companies, and firm affiliations
- Also tracks recent funding rounds, SEC Form D filings, and which investors backed which companies
- Free tools for founders: valuation calculator, cap table calculator, runway calculator, elevator pitch generator, pitch deck database

## Investor Directory

- [Investor search](https://www.angelbacked.co/directory): Browse and filter the full investor database
- [Individual investor profiles](https://www.angelbacked.co/investors): one page per investor at /investor/[slug], with their role, firm, location, portfolio companies, sector focus, and contact details
- [Investors by industry](https://www.angelbacked.co/markets): e.g. /market/saas, /market/fintech, /market/restaurants, /market/cannabis
- [Investors by location](https://www.angelbacked.co/locations): countries, US states, and cities, e.g. /investors/united-states
- [VC firms](https://www.angelbacked.co/firms): venture capital firm profiles at /firm/[slug] — the people at each firm plus the firm's aggregated portfolio companies
- [Company backer pages](https://www.angelbacked.co/directory/companies): one page per funded company at /company/[slug], answering "who invested in [company]?" with the named angels and VCs in our database who backed it
- [Best VC firm rankings](https://www.angelbacked.co/best/venture-capital-firms): curated "best investors for X" lists

## Original Research and Rankings

Primary data compiled from AngelBacked's own funding dataset and rebuilt daily. Free to cite with attribution.

- [The State of Angel Investing](https://www.angelbacked.co/state-of-angel-investing): quantified report on 28,000+ startup funding rounds since January 2025 — median round size by month and by stage (pre-seed through Series D), top sectors by round count, how often angels appear on a round, and SEC Form D fund-formation counts. Includes a stated methodology, the coverage window, and the limitations behind each figure.
- [The 100 most active angel investors](https://www.angelbacked.co/most-active-angels): angels ranked by the number of funding rounds since January 2025 that list them among the backers, with deal counts and recent portfolio companies
- Quarterly archives of that ranking (top 50 each) at /most-active-angels/[quarter], e.g. [Q2 2026](https://www.angelbacked.co/most-active-angels/2026-q2) and [Q1 2026](https://www.angelbacked.co/most-active-angels/2026-q1); quarters run from 2025-q1 to the current quarter, and the in-progress quarter is labeled quarter-to-date

## Funding Signals

- [Funding Signals](https://www.angelbacked.co/signals): recent startup funding rounds — company, date, stage, amount, industry — each mapped to the angel investors in our database who backed it
- [SEC Form D filings](https://www.angelbacked.co/signals?tab=filings): recent private-placement filings from SEC EDGAR where a person named on the filing matches an investor in the database

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- [Find investor emails](https://www.angelbacked.co/find-investor-emails)

## Fundraising Resources

- [Startup fundraising glossary](https://www.angelbacked.co/glossary): 56 plain-English definitions of fundraising terms (pre-money valuation, SAFE notes, carried interest, term sheets) with formulas and current benchmarks
- [Top angel investors by city](https://www.angelbacked.co/top-angel-investors): ranked lists of the most active angels in 27 startup hubs
- [Pitch deck database](https://www.angelbacked.co/pitch-decks): real startup pitch decks by industry and round
- [Pitch deck template](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/pitch-deck-template): investor-tested 11-slide template with instructions, examples, and a free downloadable outline
- [Fundraising playbook](https://www.angelbacked.co/fundraising-playbook): step-by-step guide to raising a seed or Series A — when to raise, how much, running the process, valuation, and closing
- [Blog](https://www.angelbacked.co/blog): fundraising guides and investor research

## Free Tools

- [Valuation calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/valuation-calculator): pre-money and post-money valuation, dilution, and ownership
- [Cap table calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/cap-table-calculator)
- [Runway calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/runway-calculator)
- [Burn rate calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/burn-rate-calculator): monthly, weekly, and daily burn from two cash balances
- [Break-even calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/break-even-calculator): customers and revenue needed to cover costs
- [Funding goal calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/funding-goal-calculator): how much to raise for a target runway
- [Investor ROI calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/investor-roi-calculator): return multiple and IRR with dilution
- [CAC calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/cac-calculator) and [LTV calculator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/ltv-calculator)
- [Elevator pitch generator](https://www.angelbacked.co/tools/elevator-pitch-generator)

## MCP Server for AI Agents

- [AngelBacked MCP server](https://www.angelbacked.co/mcp): connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client to the investor database. Endpoint `https://www.angelbacked.co/api/mcp` (streamable HTTP, Bearer `ab_` API key, Annual plan). Tools: search_investors, get_investor, company_investors, reveal_investor_email, recent_funding_rounds. Fair use: 150 requests/day, 25 results per call.

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://www.angelbacked.co/pricing): free browsing; paid plans unlock full contact details and exports — $79/month (3-day free trial) or $499/year (price lock)
- [Plain-text pricing summary](https://www.angelbacked.co/pricing.md): markdown pricing doc for AI assistants