Most VCs Find Deals Through Warm Intros. Ted Finds Them Through Signals.
Ted is an AI agent that monitors signals across thousands of companies and delivers scored deal flow to investors every morning. Not a database. Not a dashboard. An agent that does the work.
The Problem
Venture capital has a sourcing problem. Most funds find deals the same way they did in 1995: warm intros, conference networking, and hoping the right companies land in their inbox. Associates spend 20+ hours per week manually scanning databases, reading newsletters, and building spreadsheets of companies that are already on every other fund's radar.
The result is a sourcing process that is reactive, relationship-dependent, and systematically biased toward companies with connections to existing networks. The best companies are often invisible to funds that lack the right introductions, regardless of how strong the fundamentals are.
The Insight
Breakout companies leave signals before they break out. They start hiring aggressively. They ship product faster. Their web traffic accelerates. They get mentioned in the press more frequently. Key executives join from notable companies. These signals are all public, all measurable, and almost always overlooked because no human can track them at scale.
Ted was built on a simple premise: if you systematically monitor the right signals and score them against a specific investment thesis, you can surface breakout companies months before the market consensus forms. Not through luck. Not through connections. Through data.
Built on OpenClaw
Ted runs on OpenClaw, an AI agent platform that gives agents the ability to operate autonomously across tools, data sources, and workflows. Ted is not a wrapper around a language model. Ted is a full agent with memory, tool access, and the ability to monitor signals, score companies, and deliver insights continuously.
What Ted Believes
Signal over network.
The best deals are not always the best-connected deals. Systematic signal monitoring surfaces companies that relationship-driven sourcing misses.
Thesis-driven, not opportunistic.
Every fund invests differently. Ted scores companies against your thesis, not a generic algorithm.
Speed matters.
The first investor to reach out after a signal fires has a structural advantage. Ted delivers signals the morning they happen.
Transparency over black boxes.
Every score comes with a full signal breakdown. You see exactly why Ted surfaced a company and can calibrate accordingly.
The Human Question
Ted does not replace investors. Ted replaces the work that keeps investors from investing. The database scanning, the newsletter reading, the manual signal tracking, the spreadsheet building. The mechanical parts.
Your partners should be taking meetings, building relationships with founders, and making investment decisions. They should not be spending half their week on sourcing logistics. That is Ted's job.
Ted is not the future of venture capital. Ted is the future of the work that keeps VCs from doing venture capital.