Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails

23 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by west_subject
(apparent.social)

27 Comments

Ecco

6 hours ago

For some reason all the datapoints seems to be shifted a few miles south-west.

west_subject

4 hours ago

i think the mapcn package i'm using. i think it's best if change it, honestly. it got mangled up, when i started plotting a certain number of pins.

mushufasa

6 hours ago

Marc Andreessen: "The warm intro is the first test."

west_subject

3 hours ago

well, you might find someone on this list, who might be connected to a GP at a16z. cant discount that idea.

spiralcoaster

6 hours ago

You have some kind of bias in the dataset or the visualization. It's showing places in "Boston" to be south east of the city in a completely different location.

west_subject

4 hours ago

it's the mapcn package i'm using. after i plotted 300 points, the spacing got fucked up. just the spacing tho. everything else works.

syndacks

6 hours ago

Jamaica Bay has _all_ the VCs in NYC!

west_subject

3 hours ago

please dont kill me, it's the package i'm using. i'll use a better one when i get the time.

AndrewKemendo

6 hours ago

Were previously open to cold emails

west_subject

4 hours ago

well, this solves their biggest problem of sourcing newer startups. which is the whole reason they made their emails public. they're def open to newer ideas and startups that they could fund.

pkoird

6 hours ago

Does the post explain how the data was obtained? Or is it simply some kind of scraped list to get attention?

west_subject

4 hours ago

i collected and curated it over the months. Also, what attention? this is free for all. always will be.

sixhobbits

6 hours ago

And here's a similar list of 3400 VCs who suddenly find themselves a lot less open to cold email

https://apparent.social/heat-map

west_subject

4 hours ago

i dont think so tbh. they willingly made their emails open to the public. they have a sourcing problem for all we know

high_byte

6 hours ago

would be nice to be able to simply get the list instead of having an ominous heatmap

west_subject

4 hours ago

I will make it happen tonight. keep in touch.

baddash

6 hours ago

all the chicago ones are swimming out in lake michigan

irishcoffee

6 hours ago

All the Annapolis ones must be on their yachts in the bay

west_subject

4 hours ago

it's the map package that i'm using. it's they got mangled up.

west_subject

4 hours ago

LMAO yes, so are the bay area ones. I used mapcn ,which is a free tool to make those pins. it kinda got mangled up in the process.

comrade1234

6 hours ago

I will fund this!

west_subject

4 hours ago

reach out comrade. happy to talk. hello@apparent.social

philippz

6 hours ago

great, this helps no one

west_subject

4 hours ago

well, this helps people who're having trouble finding out public facing email addresses of investors at various VC firms. thought i'd make it easier for founders to reach out to GPs and angels who'd wanna talk.