Track, analyze, and outmanoeuvre your competition in seconds.
Our AI competitive intelligence software monitors rivals, spot disruptive tech, and surface opportunities before others do. Build dynamic battlecards, benchmark strategy, and act with confidence.
Get competitor information and make better decisions.
Instantly generate an AI-powered view of your competitive landscape. Track moves across product, hiring, funding, patents, and press. See how players and trends connect to spot threats early and seize gaps others miss.
Stay ahead with a live competitor radar.
FounderNest continuously scans news, websites, product updates, funding events, patents, job postings, and regulatory filings to surface competitor moves as they happen. No more scattered alerts or manual tracking as our AI consolidates signals into a clear, real-time view of your competitive field, so you never miss a shift that could impact your strategy.
Turn raw signals into action.
Our competitive intelligence AI agent collects signals and explains the context behind them. See why a product launch, hiring surge, or patent filing matters and how it could reshape your space. With smart analytics, anomaly detection, and trend velocity scoring, you can cut through noise, understand competitor intent, and identify hidden gem before others see them.
Follow momentum across competitors.
From hot technologies gaining traction to emerging topics disrupting your industry, our competitive intelligence software tracks activity across your defined space and highlights where the energy is shifting. Spot rising players, track investment flows, and detect early inflection points, so you can move before the market catches on.
Compare competitors with ease.
Evaluate rivals across product velocity, funding activity, patents, partnerships, hiring intensity, and go-to-market reach. FounderNest auto-generates insights that update as the market evolves, giving your teams a living reference point for strategy, partnerships, and executive reporting. Benchmark with confidence and act from a position of strength.
Live competitor tracking to stay on top of rival moves.
Centralize real-time signals from news and product launches to funding and filings. Our AI filters out noise, explains what changed, and shows why it matters, so your team reacts in minutes, not weeks.
“FounderNest has completely replaced Crunchbase and CB Insights in our team.”
Carmel Appel Raskin
Global Director, Tech Innovation at AB Inbev
Trend radar: hot tech and emerging topics.
Detect rising technologies and narratives shaping your space before they hit the mainstream. Track which trends will disrupt your market and which are hype.
“It’s not about replacing industry publications or databases with FounderNest. It’s about supplementing our existing resources to never miss another opportunity.”
Lluc Diaz
Director, Digital Innovation at Novo Nordisk
Patent, clinical trials and IP intelligence.
Automatically track competitor patents across classes, inventors, and regions. Turn IP activity into clear maps and alerts to spot gaps and white spaces you can own.
“FounderNest gives me 10x the market intelligence power I had before."
Carlos Cendra
Scouting & Investment Lead at MAPFRE
Benchmarking, and tailored reports.
Create auto-refreshing competitor information investments and acquisitions, to patents, products and much more. Export executive-ready PDFs/PPTs and share live boards with stakeholders.
"FounderNest allows us to not only create industry snapshots, but also keep those insights updated, enabling us to stay ahead of the curve."
Thomas Froehlich
Technology and Science Lead at Roche
Uncover actionable competitive intelligence in three simple steps.
1. Monitor.
Use one AI prompt to define your space and competitors. FounderNest builds a live tracker of companies, hot technologies, and disruptive topics, continuously enriching it with new signals, from press to patents.
2. Analyze.
Drill into AI-generated columns and smart analytics: momentum scores, activity timelines, funding and hiring pulses, patent clusters, narrative shifts, and anomaly detection (e.g., sudden hiring spikes or stealth feature launches).
3. Act.
Publish auto-updating competitor intelligence, and generate tailored reports that support decision-making, whether to partner, counter, invest, enter a subspace, or acquire.
“When exploring emerging markets and opportunities, it’s important for us to look beyond startups and also see what competitors are doing. FounderNest offered a broader scope in terms of the companies it covers, which made it a better fit for our needs.”
Susana Jurado
Head of Open Innovation Campus
Why teams choose FounderNest for competitor intelligence.
Track competitor activity, hot technologies, patents, emerging topics, talent signals, commercial traction, and regulatory changes - all in one place.
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Faster competitive monitoring
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More relevant signals and insights surfaced
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Quicker from insight to exec-ready deliverable
Frequently asked questions:
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What is Competitor Intelligence in FounderNest?
Our competitive intelligence software is a live, AI-powered workspace that monitors competitors, patents, hot technologies, and emerging topics, then translates any change into clear, actionable insights.
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What competitor signals do you track?
News, product and website changes, release notes, pricing/messaging shifts, job posts, funding/M&A, regulatory filings, patents, research preprints, community chatter, and more, continuously.
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Can I track specific companies or subspaces?
Yes - pin competitors, define subspaces, and create watchlists. Each board auto-updates instantly with fresh signals and benchmarking.
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How does the Trend Radar work?
FounderNest measures topic velocity and momentum using multi-signal graphs (citations, releases, hiring, patenting, coverage) to separate true inflection points from noise.
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Do you support patent and IP monitoring?
Yes, track applications and grants by assignee, inventor, CPC class, and geography. Receive regular alerts on material moves.
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How real-time is it?
Signals are ingested continuously. Critical changes trigger near-real-time alerts so you can respond quickly.
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Can I generate custom reports?
Absolutely. Create auto-refreshing competitor insights and export branded PDF/PPT reports on your Space tailored to your stakeholders.
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Who uses Competitor Intelligence?
The main users of our competitor intelligence tool are corporate strategy, corporate innovation, product, GTM, R&D, corporate development, and venture teams at enterprise organizations.
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Is there a limit to the number of competitors or spaces?
Track as many competitors as you need. Create focused boards for key rivals and broader spaces for horizon scanning.
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