For investors

Your next deal is already in your network

Happenstance is an AI search engine for the network you and your fund actually have. Describe who you need and get a warm path to each one.

Loved by 500,000+ users and teams at

PerplexityLovableGreylockWonderfulEmergence Capital
Thrive CapitalY CombinatorBrexAccelAngelList

How investors use Happenstance

Venture runs on who you know. Here's what investors use Happenstance for day to day.

Find deals before anyone else

Describe the kind of founder you want to meet. Save the search and new ones show up every week, as they ship, hire, or build momentum.

Saved search · runs weekly
SG
Serena Ge
Co-Founder, CEO at Datacurve
LLM infra
SG
Sashank Gondala
Co-Founder, CTO at Further AI
Vertical AI
NM
Neha Mittal
CEO and Co-founder at JustAI
Ex-Twitter/Pinterest

Get a warm intro to any founder

Point it at a name. It finds the friend who knows them best and drafts the ask, so you come in through someone they trust instead of a cold email.

You
You
AT
Alex Teichman
Strongest mutual
SG
Serena Ge
Datacurve
Drafted for you · ready to send

Alex, can you intro me to Serena? Datacurve is the sharpest work I’ve seen in LLM data infrastructure, and I’d rather meet her now than read about the next round later.

Ask experts instead of expert networks

An expert network sells you an hour with a stranger. The person who actually built the thing, or used it, is usually a friend of a friend you can ask tomorrow.

Operators with hands-on chip experience
PH
Peter Hsu
Director at TSMC North America

TSMC director in North America with 247 issued US patents in chip process.

viaPMPavlos
YCKM
2 more in your network

Open your network to your portfolio, get dealflow back

Invite founders in as a group, or one-on-one as Friends for a single partner's network. They can search it themselves, or plug in their own agent tools for automatic answers. Founders remember who opened doors for them.

Pool your fund's network
Favicon imageInitialized Capital
BGALTFVC+9
380k
searchable people

Find LPs for your next fund

If you're not Tier 1 with LPs already lining up, this is the harder search. Find the family offices and LPs in your network who back funds like yours.

Family offices & LPs in your network
BC
Beezer Clarkson
Managing Director at LGT Capital Partners
viaATAlex
SK
Samir Kaji
Founder & CEO at Allocate
viaISIshan

Works with your fund's AI tools

Search your network inside ChatGPT and Claude, or let your portfolio's own agents run network asks automatically.

mcp.json
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  "mcpServers": {
    "happenstance": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://happenstance.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your network is bigger than you think

Connect your accounts, add friends, join groups. Every signal of who knows who becomes one searchable map.

1.Connect your accounts

Gmail, Calendar, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more.

Gmail
Contacts
Calendar
LinkedIn
Twitter
Instagram
Outlook
BS
Boris Sofmanvia Alex Teichman
Co-Founder & CEO, Bedrock Robotics
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Search across your firm

Create a group for your firm. Everyone's connections pool into one network that every member can search.

Favicon imageInitialized Capital380ksearchable peopleBGALTFVC13 members
Favicon imagePear VC81ksearchable peopleSREENHEK17 members
Favicon imageUncork Capital80ksearchable peopleAMSLTJAS40 members
Favicon imageEniac Ventures150ksearchable peopleHHNMKMKC11 members
Favicon imageRibbit Capital37ksearchable peopleAPEAJBJA20 members
Favicon imagePioneer Fund140ksearchable peopleJKSBRPSF56 members
Favicon imageSusa Ventures87ksearchable peopleCBLPPPPB6 members
Favicon imageBlitzscaling Ventures250ksearchable peopleCYJDJO4 members
Favicon imageEmergence Capital36ksearchable peopleGRJSCSJH14 members
Favicon imageThunder Partners100ksearchable peopleJKRKMPAA18 members
Favicon imageNextView Ventures45ksearchable peopleDBKOLHRG9 members
Favicon imagePicus Capital96ksearchable peopleFRJRATPM22 members
Favicon imageAccel28ksearchable peopleAPMSPS4 members
Favicon imageRipple Ventures94ksearchable peopleAAAIASDM31 members
Favicon imageReach Capital46ksearchable peopleECJKJH3 members
Favicon imageJibe Ventures79ksearchable peopleAFATALDE42 members
Favicon imageAcrew Capital32ksearchable peopleKPKNMMMP9 members
Favicon imageAir Street Capital99ksearchable peopleNBVSFGJR14 members
Favicon imageGolden Gate Ventures47ksearchable peopleNKNBVOVL5 members
Favicon imageAlloy Partners59ksearchable peopleCKDKDBEP27 members
Favicon imageACME Capital42ksearchable peopleHNNHTPTH6 members
It's amazing. I use Happenstance all the time.
Olivia Moore
Olivia Moore
Partner, a16z

Private and secure

You control what you share. Your public profile shows a constellation of named people you know by default, which you can turn off anytime, and your data is never used to train AI models.

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