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How investormap works

investormap answers one question for founders in Europe: which investor invests in what, and does my startup fit? Next to investors it keeps an overview of grants, loans, accelerators and other funding at EU and national level.

Where the data comes from

A crawler reads public pages of funders (programme pages, investor websites, call documents), public APIs and news headlines, respecting robots.txt and at most one request per second per site. More about our crawler. We never use sites whose terms forbid it, and we never store personal data of people: only organizations and generic routes such as application forms.

How a record is checked

  • A language model (Google Gemini) reads each page and proposes the fields. Every critical field (status, deadline, ticket, apply link, stages) needs a quote from the page that our code finds back in the text, and a second check that the quote supports the value. Anything inferred or doubtful goes to a person for review.
  • Summaries are written in our own words. Quotes are kept as evidence and shown only as short excerpts with a link to the source.
  • Records are re-checked on a schedule: daily for calls closing within two weeks, weekly for open programmes, monthly for investors. "Last verified" shows the date of the latest check. When a page disappears or a deadline passes, the status changes; when we are unsure, the record shows an "Uncertain" warning.
  • Investor profiles (stages, typical round size, how often they lead) are derived from their deals in the news over the last 24 months and from their own website. "Typical round size" is the median round they joined, not their ticket.

How matching works

Candidates are active investors that invest at your stage (or did at least three deals in 24 months, some at your stage; at the idea stage, pre-seed investors count too) and in your country, either directly or because they invest EU-wide. Investors that focus only on other sectors, or say they avoid yours, are left out. Each candidate gets a score from five parts:

  • Deal evidence (40%): deals in the last 24 months at your stage and in one of your sectors; recent ones count double.
  • Thesis fit (30%): how close your one-liner is to the investor's stated focus.
  • Lead fit (15%): if you need a lead, how often they lead.
  • Round size (10%): your round against their stated ticket or typical round size.
  • Freshness (5%): how recently we verified the record.

Reasons are generated from these parts by fixed templates, with links to the deal sources. No language model writes them. When a recent portfolio company looks very similar to your one-liner we warn you about a possible competitor. Your one-liner is used once to compute the comparison and is not stored: we keep only a one-way hash of it, its numeric representation and the resulting ranking in server memory, for at most a day, so a repeated query is fast.

Sources

Investor and programme pages are also found through search (Exa) and through tips from founders. Search results are only used to find pages; we read the pages themselves.

Attributions

  • Contains information from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU). Records are summarised and may have been changed.
  • Amounts in other currencies are converted with the euro foreign exchange reference rates of the European Central Bank.
  • Horizon Europe associated countries follow the European Commission's list (V4.2 – 07.10.2026).
  • Head-office cities on the investor map and their coordinates come from GeoNames, reused under CC BY 4.0. The map's outline of Europe is drawn from the same places.
  • Summaries and field extraction use Google Gemini on Vertex AI.
  • Logos are taken from each organization's own website and identify the organization only; they imply no endorsement. Organizations can ask us to remove theirs through "Report an error" on their page.

Corrections

Every record has a "Report an error" link, and you can send us a tip about funding we missed. A person reviews every report.