Uncover tomorrow's opportunities today.

Powered by AIMIA, your AI Market Intelligence Analyst, FounderNest taps into the world’s largest market data asset to scout opportunities, identify trends, and deliver deep competitive and market intelligence from a single prompt. No noise. No misses.

What Space would you like to explore today?

50M+ companies
300M+ smart insights
10B+ data points
160M+ patents
500K+ clinical trials
Chanel
Audi
zoetis
Novo-Nordisk
Telefonica
Eberspacher
Mondelez
AstraZeneca

Enterprises lose up to 30% of productivity due to outdated legacy tools. FounderNest removes that friction and fuels your next innovation breakthrough.

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Space intelligence

Explore any space and iterate further to perfect results.

Gone are the days of time-consuming market research and missing the perfect startup or hot technologies.

Spaces use specialized agents to scout landscapes, map markets, and keep you ahead in any emerging technology or innovation area.

Target identification.

Quickly identify high-potential startups and emerging players that align with your innovation or investment goals.

Market research.

Conduct deep market research in minutes, not weeks, all powered by real-time AI analysis of over 10 billion global signals.

Competitive intelligence.

Stay informed on how competitors are innovating, expanding, and investing, so your team can respond with confidence.

Company intelligence

Company insights powered by AI agents and trained to work like an army of analysts.

We deliver actionable results by optimizing for highest relevance and signals, while our AI reduces noise and finds you more company hits.

Company Intelligence gives you a complete, real-time view of any startup or competitor, helping you assess relevance, track momentum, and make smarter decisions, faster.

Company diligence.

Company diligence helps you answer critical questions about any company, uncovering key signals, risks, and opportunities so you can move forward with confidence.

Company information.

Access reliable, up-to-date company information from an overview and team profiles to funding history and patents so you can start every evaluation with trusted, actionable data.

Similar companies.

Find lookalike companies instantly, helping you explore adjacent players, spot patterns, and uncover hidden alternatives.

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Key Features

Smart market intelligence made simple. FounderNest helps you uncover trends, analyze competitors, and spot opportunities with comprehensive, real-time data and AI-driven insights.

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Create specific spaces and sub-spaces.

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Enhanced company scouting.

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Detailed company information.

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Natural language AI Copilot.

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Discover similar companies that are relevant.

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Uncover trends and new technologies.

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Track competitive movements.

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Built with innovation, M&A and strategy teams in mind.

Get faster, more relevant scouting results from the world's most comprehensive dataset.

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Market intelligence exercises

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More relevant companies and insights

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Faster market intelligence and scouting

Customer feedback

Don't just take our word for it!

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"FounderNest helped us find 3x more unique providers than expected and cut scouting time by 30%, allowing us to focus less on searching and more on delivering results."

Marina Lutzenberger
Senior Project Manager Corporate Strategy & Digitalization.
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"FounderNest gives us key market insights like founding dates and funding history, and expands our reach, helping us hit KPIs by streamlining access to the right opportunities."

Shiva Chandra
Senior Associate.
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“The beauty of FounderNest is that it understands my search intent and identifies all the relevant startups we need.”

Carlos Cendra
Scouting & Investment Lead.
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“FounderNest has become an essential tool for us, sharpening our innovation edge and propelling Novo Nordisk towards the future of healthcare.”

Lluc Diaz
Director, Digital Innovation.
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“FounderNest has completely replaced Crunchbase and CB Insights in our team. The biggest factor for us was being able to use our time in other impactful ways outside of scouting efforts.”

Carmel Appel Raskin
Global Director, Tech Innovation.
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“Traditional tools can be overwhelming, but FounderNest stands out with a more focused and impactful approach that delivers clearer, more actionable insights.”

Thomas Froehlich
Technology and Science Lead
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“The granularity FounderNest offers helps us filter companies effectively so we don’t miss anything important. We can choose only those that are relevant and focus on the ones that make sense for us.”

Susana Jurado
Head of Open Innovation Campus
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“Tasks that previously took an analyst three days can now be completed in just a few hours with FounderNest.”

Pablo Zabaleta
Associate Partner
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“FounderNest helped us discover the hidden 20% of opportunities we would have never found otherwise. We can now map 100% of a space in record time.”

Lluc Diaz
Director, Digital Innovation
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“FounderNest’s natural language is very intuitive and makes our scouting incredibly easy. It’s such an interesting tool and that’s why we love using it.”

Cord Schmidt
Co-founder and Managing Director
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“Where FounderNest really adds value is in helping us find providers we wouldn’t have discovered otherwise. Our goal last year was to have at least two of those ‘unique hits’ for our projects - we actually had six.”

Marina Lutzenberger
Senior Project Manager Corporate Strategy & Digitalization
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“The beauty of FounderNest is that it understands my search intent and identifies all the relevant startups we need.”

Carlos Cendra
Scouting & Investment Lead
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“FounderNest has completely replaced Crunchbase and CB Insights in our team.”

Carmel Appel Raskin
Global Director, Tech Innovation
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“FounderNest has been a game-changer for us.”

Shiva Chandra
Senior Associate

Unlock unrivalled market intelligence.

Comprehensive capabilities designed to empower your strategic decisions.

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Elements Space momentum
Elements Funding
Elements Similar companies
Elements Patents
Elements Smart reports
Elements Trend agent
Elements Key contacts
Elements Competitor moves
Elements Space radar
Elements Smart analytics
Elements Space deep dives
Elements Hot technologies
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Elements Scouting agent
Elements Prompt enhancer
Elements Tracker agent
Elements AI columns
Elements Company lookup
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“FounderNest has been incredibly valuable in mapping out the market, providing key insights such as company founding dates, funding history, and expanding our reach to more relevant companies. It’s naturally helping us meet our KPIs by streamlining our access to the right opportunities.”

Shiva Chandra
Senior Associate
FAQs

Frequently asked questions.

Find quick answers to the most common questions about FounderNest and our AI Market Intelligence Analyst.

  • What is FounderNest?

    FounderNest is a natural language AI-native market intelligence platform that helps innovation teams discover, evaluate, and track emerging startups, technologies, and trends faster and more accurately than traditional methods.

  • What makes FounderNest different in the era of AI agents?

    FounderNest is not just a dataset or a search tool. It’s powered by AMIA, your AI Market Intelligence Analyst which is an orchestrated network of domain-specific agents that scouts, analyzes, and proactively tracks your markets.

  • What are Spaces and how do they work?

    Spaces are where users can create and retrieve personalized content. Each space gives you an overview of your area of interest, understanding the subspaces it's divided into, and example companies. The content is determined by the features contained in your package.

  • Who is FounderNest for?

    FounderNest is built for corporate innovation teams, CVCs, R&D, M&A, and strategy teams looking to scout startups, assess markets, monitor competitors, and make smarter innovation bets.

  • How is FounderNest different from traditional databases or research tools?

    Unlike static databases, FounderNest continuously analyzes billions of unstructured data points (news, patents, web activity, etc.) to surface hidden startups, trends, and market signals in real time, many of which are missed by legacy platforms.

  • What kind of insights can I get with FounderNest?

    You can generate in-depth company profiles, discover similar companies, map entire market spaces, track competitive moves, and monitor ongoing trends - all from a single platform.

  • How does FounderNest keep data accurate and up to date?

    FounderNest’s AI constantly ingests and validates data from trusted public and proprietary sources, ensuring that profiles, funding rounds, and activity signals are current and reliable.

  • Can I collaborate with my team inside the platform?

    Yes. FounderNest supports shared workspaces, Spaces, notes, and exporting features, so teams can collaborate, comment, and align seamlessly across scouting and diligence workflows.

  • Do I need to be technical to use FounderNest?

    Not at all. FounderNest is built for business users with intuitive prompts, visual market maps, and ready-to-use insights that anyone on your team can explore and act on, all wrapped up in a beautiful, modern user interface.

  • How can I get started with FounderNest?

    You can request a personalized demo directly from our team. We’ll walk you through use cases tailored to your goals and show you how to get value right away.

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