How Nexus Ventures Sourced 200 Deals Per Quarter with Scrapine
10-50 employees
200
Deals sourced per quarter
Under 24 hours
Time from signal to outreach
150+
Portfolio company introductions facilitated
"Scrapine fundamentally changed our deal sourcing. We went from reactive to proactive, identifying companies before they even start fundraising."
— Alex Turner , Partner
Challenge
Nexus Ventures, an early-stage VC firm focused on B2B SaaS, was losing competitive deals because they relied on inbound deal flow and warm introductions. By the time a company landed in their inbox, three other firms had already taken meetings. The partners wanted to build a proactive sourcing engine that identified promising companies based on growth signals before they entered fundraising mode.
Their small analyst team manually tracked product launches, hiring patterns, and industry news, but the approach was too slow and too narrow to cover their target market comprehensively.
Solution
Nexus Ventures deployed Scrapine to monitor the B2B SaaS ecosystem for early growth signals. Scrapine continuously tracked job boards for engineering hiring spikes, product review platforms for new launches, and tech press for company milestones. Custom scraping rules flagged companies with fewer than 50 employees that were posting three or more engineering roles, a reliable indicator of product-market fit and growth readiness.
Each flagged company was enriched with founder contact details, LinkedIn profiles, technology stack, estimated employee count, and any publicly available funding data. Results were delivered via a weekly Notion database sync and real-time Slack alerts for the highest-signal companies.
Results
In their first full quarter using Scrapine, Nexus Ventures sourced 200 qualified investment opportunities, up from roughly 50 using their previous manual approach. The time from identifying a growth signal to partner outreach dropped to under 24 hours. Two investments made from Scrapine-sourced deals closed within six months. The firm also used enriched company data to facilitate over 150 introductions between portfolio companies and potential customers or hires.