Set up your fund
A few minutes from sign-in to deal-shaped dispatches on the Wire.
Setup is three inputs about your fund. Everything ScoutFox surfaces is shaped by them — so be specific.
1. Name your sectors
The focus areas you invest in — clean-tech, robotics, fintech infra, dev tools, consumer, whatever your fund actually does. Sectors are free-form: name as many as you like.
Each sector becomes a live interest — a standing scout that watches the web for early-stage signals in that area.
2. Write your investment thesis
A paragraph, in plain language. Stage, sector, geography, what a fit looks like, what you avoid.
This is the most important input: every deal-shaped dispatch is scored against this text. A sharp thesis produces a sharp Wire. See Thesis match.
3. Add the funds you race
The competitor funds you'd most like to beat to a deal. When ScoutFox sees one of them linked to a company, the dispatch flags it — "also circling: a16z, Speciale Invest."
4. Watch the Wire
Your interests run on a schedule. As they surface signals, deal-shaped dispatches appear on the Wire — ranked best-thesis-fit first. There is no separate Deals page; everything lands on the Wire and you filter from there.
Edit your thesis, sectors and tracked funds any time. Open cmd+k and type
/brief, or update via Profile → Brief. Changes apply on the next run.
What you get
A continuously refreshed Wire of dispatches — each one an early-stage company matched to your thesis, with the founders, the round status, and why now. Read the deal-shaped dispatch anatomy next.