Manual Deal Sourcing Bottleneck for Small VC Funds in Emerging Markets
Early-stage investors — particularly solo GPs and small funds in markets like MENA — lack analyst resources and rely heavily on manual, fragmented searches across platforms like LinkedIn and Crunchbase to discover relevant startups. This creates an inefficient sourcing process with inconsistent coverage, especially in regions where startup data is sparse and not well-indexed. The poster is exploring whether this friction point is severe enough to warrant a dedicated solution, but has not yet validated it beyond hypothesis.
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