Set up your fund
A few minutes from sign-in to deal-shaped Daily Briefs and follow-up threads.
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 signal is scored against this text. A sharp thesis produces a sharp Daily Brief. 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. Read the Daily Brief
Your interests run on a schedule. As they surface signals, deal-shaped items appear in the Daily Brief — ranked best-thesis-fit first, with sources and the next action. The Wire remains available when you want to scan the live feed, but the brief is the main output.
Reply explain, save, ignore, send, or dig deeper. Deeper follow-up
continues in an app thread so the fund's watch memory improves.
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 focused Daily Brief of deal-shaped signals — each one an early-stage company or founder movement matched to your thesis, with the founders, round status, why now, and source links. Read the deal-shaped dispatch anatomy next.