# What are the best deal sourcing platforms for Emerging Fund Managers Identifying Founders Before Series A?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Hey all, within <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/deal-sourcing">Deal Sourcing</a>, one platform in particular carries reviewer evidence specifically describing early-stage venture use.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/pitchbook/reviews"><strong>PitchBook</strong></a>: a venture capital reviewer specifically describes it as embedded in early-stage investing workflows across the UK and US, citing deal origination, market mapping, and exit mapping as daily use cases. Reviewers across venture and private equity firms use it multiple times a day.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Would be useful to hear from emerging fund managers directly here: at what check size or fund stage does a platform like this start to pay for itself, versus relying on network and warm intros alone?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p>

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&lt;p&gt;From what I&#39;ve heard, a platform like this tends to start paying for itself once a fund is actually writing enough checks per year that manual market mapping becomes the bottleneck rather than deal flow itself, that&#39;s usually somewhere past the very first fund when a manager is still living almost entirely off personal network. Below that stage, warm intros tend to surface the same quality of early founders for less cost, since at pre-seed the relationship still matters more than comprehensive market coverage.&lt;/p&gt;

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