5 Reliable Ways to Get Data for a Company Investors List

Picture this: You've developed a product with real market potential, gathered a passionate team, and now you're ready to scale. But there's one major obstacle: capital. Whether you're a startup founder or a B2B data strategist, finding investors who align with your vision is a mission-critical task.

Building a curated list of potential investors isn't just about pulling names from a database. It's about creating a strategic, research-backed shortlist of companies who are likely to believe in your product and back that belief with funding. 

In this guide, you'll learn exactly how to construct a company investors list that's not just large but also effective.

Why building an investors database ahead of time is important

Waiting until you're ready to raise capital to start your investor search is like beginning a job hunt the day you quit a job. It's reactive, rushed, and often ineffective.

Building your investors' database early gives you a major advantage. It allows you to identify and nurture relationships with the right investors over time rather than scrambling when funding becomes urgent.

A well-curated list of company investors serves as a strategic asset. It helps you track relevant VCs, angel investors, and syndicates aligned with your industry, business stage, and goals. With a prepared investors list, you can launch your fundraising with a focused, personalized outreach strategy rather than casting a wide, unfocused net. That means higher response rates, better-fit funding partners, and faster closings.

Simply put: when you treat investor research as an ongoing process, you gain clarity, leverage, and momentum. Once you build that network, you can find the best partners easier.

What are the typical ways to find investors?

Whether you're building a SaaS platform, launching a startup, or expanding your B2B services business, finding the right backers is critical. Here are the most common traditional ways to build your company investors list:

• Networking and warm introductions: Founders often find investors through direct referrals from other entrepreneurs, advisors, or mentors. These warm intros tend to yield the highest response rates.
• Investor databases and platforms: Tools like Crunchbase, PitchBook, and AngelList allow you to conduct detailed investor research and segment potential backers by check size, investment thesis, geography, and more.
• Events and pitch competitions: Attending investor-focused meetups, accelerators, and demo days is a hands-on way to meet potential investors face-to-face.
• Social media and newsletters: Many investors actively share insights on platforms like LinkedIn and X. Following them can help you stay up-to-date and find connection points for outreach.

Each of these methods contributes to a stronger, more focused investor database, helping you move beyond cold emails and toward meaningful investor conversations.

How to build a company investor's list with Coresignal

You can also use public web data to simplify your search.

Currently, Coresignal has a list of over 120,000 investors in the United States alone, and we continually update our database with new records. 

If you want to precisely target the right investors, consider using our Multi-source Company Data, which integrates multiple sources of information and features over 500 data fields. Each of these data points can be a conversation starter if you use it right, so get armed with precise, real-time information and start connecting with your future partners.

All of this data can be accessed as a JSONL or CSV file or via our API. 

1. Join your free trial (no credit card required)

I hear you. Not everyone wants to talk to the sales team right away. 

So we have designed a way for you to take a closer look at the data and check out a sample of our records for free. 

Our free trial includes:

• Access to over 1 billion company, employee, and job records, including more than 100,000 investment companies in the US
• Up to 200 downloadable company profiles, free of charge
• Up to 400 search queries at no cost
• Instant access with your Google Business account, no credit card needed
• A 14-day free trial to dig deeper into the data

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2. Try out the Multi-source Company API

We offer three types of Company APIs:

• Base Company API, which delivers essential data points, including firmographics, is ideal for quick enrichment and lightweight use cases but might include duplicates.
• Clean Company API provides aggregated company data that is deduplicated and standardized for consistency and ease of use.
• Multi-source Company API offers premium company records with 500+ data points from multiple distinct integrated sources.

I prefer working with the Multi-source Company API because it has the most detailed company profiles. However, all of these APIs will provide you with a similar list of investors; the main difference lies in the granularity and cleanliness of the data. 

So, among the list of APIs on the left, choose the Multi-source Company API. You will find a list of pre-made query templates that you can try out.

For instance, you can choose the Investment Analysis template, which will generate a query that returns a list of companies with the same investor. Select the template, press Submit request and you will receive a list of company IDs that match the criteria. Pick an ID, press Submit request once again, and you will be able to review the complete company profile.

3. Build a company investor list

Now that you know how easy it is to try out the data, let's try out several use cases that might work for you. 

Keep in mind that information about the data is available in our data dictionaries and schemas – all of which you can find in our documentation or on the self-service platform. 

Let's begin, shall we? 

All you need to do is to paste the queries into the search request field. 

#1 Find investors that specialize in a particular industry, such as AI

If you have a company that specializes in a particular industry, you might want to connect with investment firms that have previous experience in the same industry and could share their know-how. 

You can do that by adding related categories and keywords in the search query:

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "match": {
            "categories_and_keywords": "AI"
          }
        },
        {
          "match_phrase": {
            "industry": "investment management"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

The query will return investment management companies that are categorized as working with AI:

#2 Find investors that work in a particular region, country, or city

If you are active in your community, you probably already know your local investors. But once you want to expand into new markets or seek a larger investment, you might be interested in connecting with people outside your typical network.

When you want to broaden your investor search, focus on finding investors in a specific region, country, or city. You can do that by exploring data fields that include the headquarters (HQ) of the investment firm.

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "match_phrase": {
            "industry": "investment management"
          }
        },
        {
          "match": {
            "hq_region": "Europe"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

The query will return investment management companies that are headquartered in Europe:

#3 Find small investment firms that are growing steadily

You may be interested in partnering with companies that will dedicate more time and attention to your case than the average. It's possible to achieve that by partnering with smaller firms – let's say, companies with fewer than 30 employees. 

Try this query:

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "match_phrase": {
            "industry": "investment management"
          }
        }
      ],
      "filter": [
        {
          "range": {
            "employees_count": {
              "lt": 30
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

The query will return investment management companies that have less than 30 employees:

#4 Find investment companies that are appreciated by their employees

Are you looking for a company with an excellent reputation? One way to identify great partners is to find companies that are recognized as a great workplace. Coresignal provides a wide range of scores that help you better understand how a company's employees see their job, their CEO, or other important criteria. 

Use this query (or explore dataset schema for even more options):

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "match_phrase": {
            "industry": "investment management"
          }
        }
      ],
      "filter": [
        {
          "range": {
            "employee_reviews_score_aggregated_change.change_monthly": {
              "gt": 0
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

The query will return investment management companies that have a positively growing employee review score:

#5 Find investors by their founding year

You likely want to work with a trusted partner, and one way to achieve that's to pick companies that have 10+ years of experience under their belt. 

You can do that by adding the founded_year filter:

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "match_phrase": {
            "industry": "investment management"
          }
        }
      ],
      "filter": [
        {
          "range": {
            "founded_year": {
              "lt": 2015
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

This query will return investment management companies that have been founded earlier than 2015:

How to build precise investor's list?

Of course, I’ve just scratched the surface here. You can easily add multiple filters to check the data to make sure your criteria is matched. 

For example, the following query will return thousands of investment management companies that were founded before 2015, are headquartered in the United States, and work with venture capital.

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "match_phrase": {
            "industry": "investment management"
          }
        },
        {
          "match_phrase": {
            "hq_country": "United States"
          }
        },
        {
          "match": {
            "categories_and_keywords": "venture capital"
          }
        }
      ],
      "filter": [
        {
          "range": {
            "founded_year": {
              "lt": 2015
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

If you have any questions about our data, set up a short meeting and we will be glad to share more information.

You can also analyze the data using the following (and more) data types:

1. Firmographics – Includes company name, industry, type, founding year, size range, and employee count.
2. Locations – Covers headquarters country, region, city, full address, and other global office locations.
3. Acquisitions – Lists acquisitions made by or of the company, including names, dates, and acquisition prices.
4. Categories and keywords – Describes technologies, sectors, and focus areas such as "AI", "blockchain", etc.
5. Technographics – Details the technologies a company uses, such as CRM tools, hosting platforms, and more.
   Employee insights – Includes employee counts by department, seniority, and geography over time.
6. Employee reviews – Aggregated scores and breakdowns of company reviews on aspects like leadership and culture.

Every data point can help you find the right investment partner for your business. The data also includes public business contact details and social media links for easier outreach.

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