Show HN: Oculor: find warm intro paths to investors
Oculor is a free tool that combines an investor database with a warm introduction feature, helping users find connections to investors by comparing portfolio company team members with their LinkedIn network.
Background
Oculor is a newly launched tool that helps startup founders find "warm introductions" (an intro made through a mutual connection) to investors, rather than sending cold emails. It works by scanning which founders and team members are in an investor's portfolio, then cross-referencing those people against your own LinkedIn network to identify someone who can make an intro. The product is aimed at solving a well-known problem in startup fundraising: warm intros have much higher response rates than cold outreach, but identifying the right middleman is tedious. This is a crowded space — competitors include tools like Apollo, Crunchbase Pro, and Intro — but Oculor differentiates by focusing specifically on the portfolio-to-network matching shortcut. The founders appear to be launching on Hacker News ("Show HN") to get early feedback from the tech community.