How do you actually get the people-level data?

Public LinkedIn profile changes, GitHub activity, public conference and writing patterns, the public departure announcements that founders themselves post. We don't scrape private data and we don't broker introductions; we surface signal that's already public but hard to track in aggregate.

Which 'notable companies' are tracked?

Per-fund, curated. Most funds start with a list of 50–200 scaled startups and notable scale-ups in their thesis area — companies whose alumni typically become founders. The list evolves as the partners refine; this is configuration, not fixed.

What's the partner-side experience?

A weekly digest — notable departures from watchlist companies, organized by role and seniority. Plus a real-time channel (Slack, email) for the high-priority signals (named technical leaders, cluster departures). The partner has the choice of weekly skim or real-time alert.

Doesn't Harmonic do this?

Harmonic focuses on the company side — they surface companies in stealth or recently founded. This product is upstream — it surfaces the people before they've started the company. The two are complementary; some funds run both. Where they overlap (companies founded by tracked individuals), the signal lights up across both products.

Scoped to watchlist size and the partner-alert tier (weekly vs. real-time channels). Discovery call covers both.

§ Product

Founder Network Intelligence

A people-level tracking layer — monitors departures from a curated 'talent watchlist' of notable companies, surfaces clusters and individuals to the partners with context (role, tenure, who they worked with), refreshes daily.

Engagement: 8–12 week build · ongoing signal feed
Built for: Partners · Principals · Sourcing leads

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§ Problem

Early-stage VC backs founders, not companies — but the companies don't exist yet. The signal that matters is the engineering or product leader who just left Stripe with no public next role, the founding designer who left Figma three weeks ago, the cluster of staff engineers who left the same scaled startup in the same quarter. Right now most funds find this through happenstance.

What this is

The product that does what every VC partner wishes someone was doing for them. Three layers:

Watchlist construction. Per-fund curated list of notable companies whose alumni become founders. Evolves with the partners.
People-level signal ingestion. Public LinkedIn changes, GitHub activity, public writing and conference patterns. Departure detection. Role and seniority normalization.
Partner notification. Weekly digest with clustering and prioritization. Real-time channel for high-priority signals (named technical leaders, cluster departures from the same company, founder-archetype individuals).

How it's built

Headless-browser-class scraping of public profile changes (within site terms-of-service rate limits), public-API integrations where the source provides them (GitHub, GitLab), and a manual-curation overlay where the partners flag specific people to track. Embedding-based clustering on department-and-team correlation to surface "ten engineers from team X all left within the same six weeks."

What you get

The watchlist configuration tool for the partners.
The weekly digest delivered to partners' inbox.
The real-time channel for high-priority signals.
A partner-side UI to drill into individual people — tenure, role history, who-they-worked-with graph.
Quarterly review of watchlist quality with the partners.

§ How we engage

Engagement is shape, not list.

Length and price are functions of the data and the destination. The shape below is the typical engagement.

Length: 8–12 week build · ongoing signal feed
Lead: Bogdan
Cadence: Async, weekly
Bar: Production

§ Related

Products this composes with.

Same suite, or vertical-specialized versions in another.

§ Questions

What buyers ask about this one.

How do you actually get the people-level data?
Public LinkedIn profile changes, GitHub activity, public conference and writing patterns, the public departure announcements that founders themselves post. We don't scrape private data and we don't broker introductions; we surface signal that's already public but hard to track in aggregate.
Which 'notable companies' are tracked?
Per-fund, curated. Most funds start with a list of 50–200 scaled startups and notable scale-ups in their thesis area — companies whose alumni typically become founders. The list evolves as the partners refine; this is configuration, not fixed.
What's the partner-side experience?
A weekly digest — notable departures from watchlist companies, organized by role and seniority. Plus a real-time channel (Slack, email) for the high-priority signals (named technical leaders, cluster departures). The partner has the choice of weekly skim or real-time alert.
Doesn't Harmonic do this?
Harmonic focuses on the company side — they surface companies in stealth or recently founded. This product is upstream — it surfaces the people before they've started the company. The two are complementary; some funds run both. Where they overlap (companies founded by tracked individuals), the signal lights up across both products.
Pricing?
Scoped to watchlist size and the partner-alert tier (weekly vs. real-time channels). Discovery call covers both.

§ The next step

If the deliverable matches the gap, the next step is one call.

We'll scope length and price against your data and the operation it integrates with. No retainer, no fishing.

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Bogdan and team · async-first · OP—2026