See why each investor may be relevant — matched, different or unknown — then send a conversation request they can accept or decline.
On your Startup Profile, open the What I need tab: your business model, what you are working on, whether you are raising, and the help you want. Each field has its own setting — Public, Connections (people you are talking to) or Private. Your Startup Profile itself stays as visible as it is today.
Above the list, choose For my startup, Recently active, Open to conversations, Potential introductions, Saved investors or My interactions. Browse all is the full list with its filters. Every view says the rule it uses.
Each card lists what is shared, what is different and what is unknown — sector, stage, geography, business model, investment size, the help you need against the help they offer, and their availability — with where each fact came from. Press How this was compared for the detail. There is no score. The grey profile similarity figure only says how alike the written profiles are.
Matching preferences lets you mark each criterion Important, Normal, Less important or Ignore. It changes the order of a list only; an Important criterion that is Different keeps an investor out of your suggestions.
Press Request conversation and write a short introduction, why them, what you would like to discuss and the next step you propose — your companion can help draft it. They choose whether to accept; if they decline you see only Not taken forward. You can send 10 new requests a week, one open request per person, and wait 90 days after one is not taken forward.
On Potential introductions, investors appear when someone you already talk to — who said they make introductions — also talks to them. Your contact decides whether to pass it on, then the investor decides. Nobody is introduced without both saying yes.
Add to my raise pipeline puts the investor in Fundraising with why they may fit. Research investors like this (public web) opens Investor Research, which uses public information — not MFJ members. Answers to your requests arrive in the Deal Room under Requests.
Open Find investors who may fit your startup in the app (sign-in required).