Comparable records, and a visible line between claimed and checked

Companies here are structured records rather than documents. The same fields, in the same units, for every company: buyer, channels, customer count, growth rate, revenue, cost to acquire a customer, burn, runway, concentration, raise size, use of funds.

That makes them filterable and comparable, which a folder of decks is not. It also makes it immediately visible when a company has not answered something, rather than that gap being hidden inside a well-designed slide.

You state what you invest in. The platform checks companies against exactly that and shows the working, criterion by criterion.

Plus a cheque range, a minimum monthly growth rate, and whether you will look at pre-revenue companies at all.

Four results, never two

Each criterion comes back as met, missed, unknown (the founder has not answered), or not specified (you did not filter on it). Collapsing unknown into missed would penalise a company for a blank field as though it had failed a test, and would hide from you the fact that the information simply is not there.

Currencies are not silently converted

If your cheque range is in dollars and a raise is in naira, that criterion is marked not compared, with the reason shown. Converting at a rate the platform does not hold would produce a number that looks like a result and is a guess. Everything monetary is stored as whole minor units beside an explicit currency.

Every founder claim carries a state: founder-stated, verified, or failed. Verified means a named check happened on a stated date by a stated method, not that a form was filled in convincingly.

Six checks exist: company registration, domain ownership, founder identity, revenue evidence, customer evidence and the product itself. Read what each one covers and what it does not before relying on any of them.

Founders control whether their company is listed at all. Nothing is public by default.

On your side, founders see interest as counts rather than identities. You are not named to a company unless you request an introduction. Who an investor is researching is personal data about the investor, and reporting it by default would be a consent decision this platform has no right to make on your behalf.

Does it cost anything to browse deal flow?

No. Investor accounts are free and browsing costs nothing. Charging investors to see companies would shrink the side of the marketplace that needs to be large.

Is the matching done by AI?

No. Matching is arithmetic against the thesis you state: stage, industry, country, business model, minimum growth, cheque range and whether you look at pre-revenue. Each criterion is shown as met, missed, unknown or not specified, with the reason.

What happens when a criterion cannot be compared?

It is shown as unknown, with the reason. If your cheque range is in dollars and a company's raise is in naira, the platform does not convert at a rate it does not hold. It says so instead of inventing a comparison.

Does GTM recommend companies to me?

No, and it is built specifically not to. It reports how completely a company evidenced itself and which of your own stated criteria it meets. It does not rank companies by quality, does not give investment advice, and does not make recommendations.

Will founders see that I looked?

They see interest as counts, not identities. You remain anonymous unless you choose to reveal yourself by requesting an introduction.