Until today, there were only two ways for your investors to access Seed Labs:

1. Organization owners log in, invite an email address individually or in bulk, and then sends the investor a link to join. With that link, the investor can immediately onboard and see the Deal they've been invited to.
2. Organization owners send potential investors a link to request to join. The investor can click the link, sign up for an account, and then request to join the organization. The request then needs to be approved by the organization owner.

Both options have been great solutions for our customers— from startups grouping a few checks together via SAFE Plus, to some of the largest syndicates in venture bulk-inviting tens of thousands of their investors at a time.

However, we're seeing customers use our product in ways we didn't anticipate. As organizers progress in their fundraise, they're constantly being introduced to new people. And adding each new person to the organization one-by-one is a pain, while waiting for enough people to bulk-invite in one go can be a momentum killer for fundraising. And in a business where momentum is paramount and friction is the enemy, we knew we could do better.

So, we're introducing a new, simple way for investors to access the ability to invest in a deal: Open Links.

Open Links allow anyone to click a link and instantly access your deal— no pre-invitation required.

It's as simple as:

1. Generate an Open Link.
2. Send the Open Link to anyone as soon as they're interested in your deal.
3. With that link, they have everything they need to see your data room, view the docs, commit to invest, and fund their commitment. All handled automatically via our automated deal execution software.

Small updates like this are just as important to us as big feature launches. We're always refining and polishing the experience to make things play a little smoother every week.

Almost every deal on Seed Labs uses the 506(b) Regulation D exemption, which allows for simpler reporting so long as the deal is not generally solicited to the public (think posting on Twitter or Reddit to announce that you're fundraising). Open Links fully keep in line with this guideline, requiring both the deal organizer and the investor to verify that they have established a pre-existing relationship prior to accessing the deal. For questions, reach out to compliance@seedlabs.co.

Today, we're excited to open early access to Oracle: an AI powered investor search engine to help founders find the right investors. Oracle learns more about your startup— reading your deck, docs, landing pages, and memos— and gives you high-signal angels/VCs that would most likely want to invest in you.

Why we built this

In the last few months, my cofounder Shriank and I have been helping many YC and A16Z-backed founders save hundreds of thousands of dollars in compliance cost by optimizing their fundraising legal structure using SAFE Plus. A cherry-on-top feature for these founders was access to the Private Capital Network (PCN): a group of angels, VCs, syndicates, and family offices looking to invest $100M+ into startups this year.

Shriank and I would spend hours with each founder, learning as much as we can about what they're building. Once we felt we had a good feel for the startup, we'd go to our PCN directory and start some intense legwork: What blog posts did XYZ Firm release recently that align with the founder's vision? This angel tweeted out their interest in the personalized healthcare space two weeks ago. Maybe they would be interested in talking to a healthcare founder?

The connections we made helped many founders fill up their fundraise. We thought the Private Capital Network was a nice-to-have extra that would help some founders, but we were surprised to see how grateful founders were to have PCN behind them.

But there was a big problem: we couldn't scale it. Because of how labor intensive it was for our team to make these matches, we had to “pick winners” that we felt most “deserved” our help and access to the Private Capital Network.

This didn't feel right. Founding is hard enough as it is. We've seen too many of our fellow founders suffer to attract venture dollars not because their idea wasn't venture-scalable, or they didn't have a product. They're just not “insiders.”

Oracle is our latest attempt at increasing the number of successful startups in the world. Oracle is scaling what we did with our Private Capital Network… to everyone.

How it works

Oracle is an AI powered investor search engine to help founders find the right investors. Oracle learns more about your startup— reading your deck, docs, landing pages, and memos— and gives you high-signal angels/VCs that would most likely want to invest in you.

If you're a healthcare AI startup, you've probably reached a dead end doing one of the following:

1. Googled into the void: “investors in healthcare AI”, “angels healthcare startups”, or “Venture firm healthcare”
2. Relied on recall: “I watched a podcast where Chamath Palihapatya said he thinks AI will help improve patient outcomes. But how do I get to him?”
3. Found ten “angel/VC aggregator lists”: most are massively incomplete, many have high paywalls, and none of them know a thing about what you're building

We trained Oracle to synthesize two things:

1. Investor data: Oracle reads more venture firm blog posts, investment portfolio data, and investor background data than any superconnector can achieve
2. Your startup's context: talk to Oracle in natural language, drop in your decks, docs, landing pages, memos, founder backgrounds, etc.

What used to take us hours to do for one select founder now takes Oracle seconds to do for every founder.

Beyond search

You've built a great product. You've proven people want it. You've used Oracle to find the best investors to reach out to. But how do you cross the chasm and actually get the check in?

Oracle sits atop a suite of new venture products that the Seed Labs team is building.

To help you go from a shortlist of investors on Oracle to committed funds, we've launched SAFE Plus to streamline the fundraising process and save you thousands in legal fees. With SAFE Plus, investors you request to invite can commit and send funds in one simple link.

Oracle was built by founders, for founders. Build on. 🕊️

Get Early Access

Contact team@seedlabs.co to request early access.

Yesterday, someone tried to impersonate us on Twitter/X by cloning our account with a handle that closely resembles ours.

They bought 50k followers and started off their attack following some of ours followers.

Unlucky for them, they followed the Seed Labs founders (us)...

The report to X was swift and the account was taken down within a few hours. But this got us thinking: it is far too easy for people to impersonate us!

Especially given that our entire core product can be whitelabeled and served on a customer's domain, how do you know you're using the real Seed Labs and not being phished?

Introducing the Security Home

Today, we're launching a security page that will be the home for all security-related feature. Two features are live today:

1. Domain verification. Enter any website domain and we'll confirm if it's a valid Seed Labs organization or not. We've also added a convenient security badge on the login page of all whitelabeled customer sites that takes you to this feature.

2. External account verification. Account verification: confirm that the Twitter account you might be interacting with is the real deal.

A culture of speed and security

Security is not a one-time thing. As new threats come up, you'll see our security page evolve. And within less than 24 hours of the impersonation incident, you'll know that we do do it fast.

Before today, we've been sending each of our customers personal updates through Slack, email, and text. Our team moves fast and we're pushing out new updates constantly, and we want to make sure our growing customer base is always kept in the loop.

We're excited to announce Updates— an easier way for our team to share the latest about Seed Labs and our offerings.

A look under the hood

We're particularly excited about this rollout because of how deeply tied into our product workflow this is. All of our external facing material (like landing pages, Library), core software product, APIs, and SDKs sit in one codebase— a monorepo powered by NextJS. It's how we're able to ship quality products fast as a small team. This Updates page allows us to document and share milestones as soon as we put them out, which helps us get feedback and iterate faster.

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