How to use FTW Hub

If you don't already have an account, head to the Hub — sign-in or sign-up takes ~30 seconds (Google or email).

Open FTW Hub →

Once you're in, everything else is downstream of your profile. The match engine, fit score, and warm-intro pre-flight all read from it. Open Profile from the top-right and fill in:

• Description, sectors, stage, country, business model — these drive the embedding that powers fit scoring.
• Website + Pitch Deck — at least one is required to request a warm intro.
• Target raise + check size context — used by the check-size signal in the score.
• Investor Network — log every fund that has invested in you. Drives the "In my network" filter and unlocks co-investor discovery.

The sidebar on Funds shows a banner if your profile is incomplete. Fix it once and forget it.

The Funds tab is your investor universe — every approved, active fund in the FTW database, ranked by fit score for your specific company.

Use the sidebar to narrow:

• Industries / Investor Type / Investment Role / Country — standard filters.
• Check Size — slider; shows funds whose stated range covers your number.
• Warm intro possible — funds where the FTW team can facilitate a warm intro.
• Featured on IC Podcast — funds whose partners have appeared on the Investment Climate Podcast.
• In my network — funds that have already co-invested with one of your investors. The warmest path on the platform.
• Saved — your hearted funds; export to CSV.

Type in the navbar search bar and press Go (or Enter) to search by fund name. Typing alone doesn't refetch — it's deliberate so the list doesn't flicker.

Click any fund to open its detail page. What you'll find:

• Investor Fit bar — score 0–100 combining embedding similarity (50%), sector overlap (20%), check size fit (20%), and geography (10%). ≥70 is a Strong Match; ≥40 is a Match.
• Thesis, sectors, geography, check size — what they say they fund.
• Known Investments — every Investment Round we have on record for them, with the startup, series, and date.
• Co-Investors — funds that have backed the same startups. If you're a founder, your existing investors that have co-invested with this fund show first as the warm path.
• Request Intro — for funds where it's available, this opens the warm-intro flow (covered in Guide 02).

Heart a fund to save it for later; toggle "Saved" in the sidebar to filter to that list.

The Startups tab is the same idea applied to companies. Use it to:

• Find peers raising in your sector — see their stage, country, and prior investors.
• Toggle In my network to surface only startups that share at least one investor with you.
• Find startups whose leadership has been on the IC Podcast (and listen for the founder POV before reaching out).

Click into any startup for their public profile, including prior investors and (when available) their leadership team.

The Feed tab shows the latest investment rounds covered in the FoodTech Weekly newsletter — country flag, startup, series, amount, investors. It updates as new rounds publish.

Use it as a daily scan for who's deploying capital, what stages are hot, and where your sector is moving. Each row links to the startup and to every investor on the round.

FTW+ is the paid tier ($750 / 6 months). It unlocks:

• Full investor visibility — every fund in the database, no blurred cards.
• Warm intro requests — 3 per month, included. The FTW team facilitates the introduction. Beyond 3 in a calendar month you wait until the 1st of the next month — there's no overage charge.
• FTW+ badge on your startup profile so investors know you're committed.

To request an intro: open a fund profile → click Request Intro → you'll be checked against the pre-flight gates (FTW+, monthly quota, profile completeness, fit score ≥40, no duplicate). Pass the gates, write a 500-character note, and submit. Track status on your startup profile.