The matchmaker that decided fundraising shouldn't depend on who you already know.
A data-driven platform that pairs entrepreneurs with the venture and private equity firms most likely to fund them - and does the reading so founders don't have to.
Somewhere right now a founder is refreshing an inbox, waiting on the thirty-first investor she emailed this month. Three have replied. None have said yes. This is the ordinary, quiet inefficiency Qodeo was built to end - the fundraising equivalent of finding one specific needle in a barn full of haystacks.
Qodeo flips the search. Instead of a founder guessing which of thousands of firms might care, its proprietary, AI-enabled algorithms read both sides of the market - the entrepreneur's profile, the investor's precise funding criteria - and return a shortlist ranked Hot, Warm or Cool. Investors get curated deal flow. Founders get a map instead of a maze.
The company's stated ambition is blunt: democratise venture. Give every entrepreneur, especially the diverse founders who keep getting overlooked, access to the capital that a warm introduction would otherwise gatekeep.
"Effective markets require effective intermediation built on timely, relevant and accurate data. This is what Qodeo seeks to provide for the PE/VC markets."
- Sir Harvey McGrath, cornerstone investor, former Chairman of Prudential & the Man GroupQodeo's engine filters thousands of firms down to the ones that fit, then labels each match by temperature. No commission, no managing the money - it makes the introduction and gets out of the way.
The investor's criteria line up tightly with your stage, sector and cheque size. Start here.
A solid overlap with a few gaps. Often the pleasant surprise you'd never have found alone.
Weaker alignment - useful context, filed for later rather than a cold email today.
Build a profile and get matched against 7,300+ VC and PE firms - ranked, so you spend your energy on the ones that count.
Receive best-fit opportunities filtered from thousands, free of charge, without wading through noise or paying a middleman.
Law firms and advisors join the Partner Program to guide founders end to end - Cozen O'Connor was first through the door.
Qodeo draws on four data sources, including in-person interviews with VC/PE firms conducted alongside 30 business schools. The scale it has mapped:
Simon Glass has an unusual résumé for a fintech founder. In project finance he helped raise $9 billion for Roy Hill, the world's largest private iron ore mine. He worked at Amadeus Capital Partners - the first backer of chip giant ARM Holdings - and did stints at EY, in academia and media, and at WPP as deputy chair of a publishing house.
The through-line isn't mining or microchips. It's a conviction that capital only finds its best home when the information is honest. Qodeo, a Cambridge Judge Business School MBA project turned company, is that idea shipped as software.
Simon Glass · Founder & CEO
Two problems, one market. Entrepreneurs struggle to find investment. Investors struggle to build quality deal flow. Qodeo scores "matchability" to raise the odds on both sides.
Simon Glass founds Qodeo in London to rethink how founders and investors find each other.
The first version of Qodeo's matching toolkit goes live.
Named a Growth Business Tech Innovator.
Seedrs round targets £220k for ~6.47% equity, backed by Sir Harvey McGrath and 23 angels.
Raises a further $610,000 to scale the platform.
Deepens focus on diverse founders; runs the New Venture Atlanta showcase.
Hear the mission straight from the founder, or see the matching model in action.
Return to the founder from the front page, still refreshing her email. On Qodeo, the barn full of haystacks is already sorted. She isn't emailing thirty strangers and hoping. She's looking at a ranked list - Hot at the top - of investors whose criteria genuinely fit what she's building. The ones she'd never have heard of are suddenly a click away, and the ones who'd never have replied were never on the list to begin with.
That's the whole trick, and it's a quiet one. Qodeo doesn't promise every founder a cheque. It promises something more useful: that the search itself will finally be fair. Replace the warm intro with an honest match, and the room full of overlooked founders gets a lot smaller.