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The right deal, matched before the first call.

A private deal platform that connects investors, startup founders and business owners. Both sides declare their criteria, every Brief carries a Fit score and a Risk signal, and nothing sensitive opens until both sides accept a shared NDA.

Beta applications are openU.S. only

Become a beta tester How it works

Free during the beta. The beta is for the Safqos iPhone app: apply on the web, and accepted members get TestFlight access, plus the web app in the meantime. Not a broker-dealer.

Safqos Discover screen with the Brief for Petal & Stem, a Retail business owner seeking growth capital, showing Fit 94, Risk signal C, the deal terms, revenue and the Decline, Interested and Boost buttons

Real app screens. Demo accounts.

  1. Fit before the first message.Every Brief is scored against what you declared.
  2. Risk, itemized.See what helps the grade and what needs a closer look.
  3. One shared NDA.Documents stay locked until both sides accept.
  4. Calls in the app.Schedule, meet and follow up in one place.

From a Brief to a live call.

Real app, demo accounts. No sound.

You know how the cold intro ends.

Investors

Stop chasing founders who were never raising.

  • DMs that never get a reply
  • Founders not actually raising
  • Wrong stage, wrong structure
On Safqos

Both sides declare stage, sector, structure and check size. Fit is scored before you read a word.

Startup founders

Pitch only investors who fund your stage.

  • A quarter lost to wrong-fit pitches
  • Learning the fit after the meeting
  • A slow raise and a fast runway
On Safqos

Investors state what they fund before they reach your feed. You see Fit before the first message.

Business owners

Talk to serious investors, not tire-kickers.

  • Dead-end calls eating your week
  • No way to tell who is serious
  • Your books shared too early
On Safqos

Every investor shows their check size and structure up front. Your financials stay locked behind a shared NDA.

For investors For startups For businesses

The problem, in numbers.

For investors: the funnel

101considered for every 1 invested, in a survey of institutional VCs

  1. 28of every 101, meet the founders
  2. 10of every 101, reviewed with partners
  3. ~5of every 101, go through due diligence
  4. 1.7of every 101, get a term sheet
  5. 1of every 101, invested
Sources

Funnel from Gompers, Gornall, Kaplan and Strebulaev, “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?”, Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 (survey of 885 institutional VCs at 681 firms, Table 6), also summarized by Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford GSB, 2026. Stage splits vary by firm and investment focus. The same survey reports VCs taking an average of 83 days to close a deal (73 days for early-stage firms) and an average of 118 hours of due diligence per deal; Strebulaev reports about 15 hours a week spent sourcing and screening. The stages Safqos is built to compress are the early ones: scoring every deal against your declared criteria and itemizing its risk before you read it.

For founders: the outreach

71investors contacted per startup, on average (pre-seed, 2022–23)

  • 46meetings set from that outreach
  • 4.3%of cold pitch emails get an interested reply
  • 25%of founders spend over half their week on fundraising
Sources

Outreach: DocSend pre-seed fundraising report, 2022–23 (200+ startups), an average of 71 investors contacted and 46 meetings; about a third of successful pre-seed raises took 13 to 18 weeks, and unsuccessful raises persisted about 5 months on average. Dropbox DocSend, December 2024: “Fundraising time averaged 12 weeks for pre-seed rounds.” Reply rate: Gornall and Strebulaev, a randomized field experiment of 80,000 cold pitch emails to 28,000 VCs and angels, 4.3% interested replies. Founder time: Angel Investment Network US Founder Survey, 2025 (610 US founders), 25% spend over half their week solely on fundraising. Safqos has not launched, so no measured time saving is claimed here.

For owners: the shortfall

58%of small businesses that applied for financing got less than they sought, or nothing

  • 22%got none of it
  • 42%got the full amount
Sources

Federal Reserve Banks, Small Business Credit Survey, 2026 Report on Employer Firms (March 2026; 6,525 employer firms with 1–499 employees): “Forty-two percent of applicants received the full amount of financing they sought, 36% received some or most, and 22% received none.” The prior year was similar: 41%, 36% and 24% (2025 report). The 58% is the 36% and 22% combined. Financing here is mostly loans and lines of credit. Safqos has not launched, so no measured improvement is claimed here.

57%fewer steps to a deal
30 steps today, 13 with Safqos. Open any stage for the detail.

Sourcing deals that fitSifting inbound decks and intros for the few that match your thesis, stage and check size.5 steps1 step80%fewer steps
Today
  1. Collect inbound decks and intros
  2. Open each deck
  3. Read it
  4. Check it against your criteria
  5. Pass on most
With Safqos
  1. Open your feed, every Brief already scored for Fit
  • Calendar time 1–2 weeks of pre-screening (Angel Capital Association)
  • Hours of work about 15 hours a week sourcing and screening (Strebulaev, 2026)
Making first contactReaching the founder or owner, then a first call just to learn whether there is a fit.4 steps2 steps50%fewer steps
Today
  1. Email to ask for a call
  2. Wait for a reply
  3. Agree to talk
  4. Take a first call to learn if it fits
With Safqos
  1. Message them in the app
  2. Wait for a reply
Gathering the informationRequesting the deck, financials and supporting documents, one request at a time.5 steps2 steps60%fewer steps
Today
  1. Ask for the deck
  2. Wait
  3. Ask for financials
  4. Wait
  5. Ask for the rest
With Safqos
  1. Read the Dossier
  2. Accept the NDA; documents arrive on their own
  • Calendar time 1–3 weeks of screening (Angel Capital Association)
Verifying the claimsConfirming who you are dealing with and checking what you were told against the documents.6 steps4 steps33%fewer steps
Today
  1. Request supporting documents
  2. Wait
  3. Confirm identity and company
  4. Match claims to documents
  5. Ask follow-up questions
  6. Call references
With Safqos
  1. Read the itemized Risk; identity and entity carry a Verified badge
  2. Match claims to documents
  3. Ask follow-up questions
  4. Call references
  • Hours of work 118 hours of due diligence per closed deal, on average (Gompers et al., 2020)
Scheduling the callAgreeing a time with the founder or owner, sending links and making sure both sides show up.5 steps2 steps60%fewer steps
Today
  1. Email possible times
  2. Wait for a reply
  3. Agree a time
  4. Send a calendar invite and video link
  5. Send a reminder the day before
With Safqos
  1. Propose a time in the app
  2. They accept; both of you are reminded before it starts
Follow-up and revisionsQuestions, revised numbers and documents scattered across email threads and tools.5 steps2 steps60%fewer steps
Today
  1. Send a follow-up email
  2. Wait for a reply
  3. Dig the latest file out of the thread
  4. Send a revised version
  5. Move to another tool for the NDA or call
With Safqos
  1. Message in the connection's thread
  2. Wait for a reply; Safqos nudges unanswered messages

A step is one email, wait or hand-off. Diligence decisions, terms and the legal close stay between you and the other side.

Sources

Angel Capital Association: “Expect one or two weeks for the pre-screening process. Screening is usually completed within another one to three weeks.” Gompers, Gornall, Kaplan and Strebulaev, 2020 (885 institutional VCs): an average of 118 hours of due diligence per closed deal. Ilya Strebulaev, 2026: about 15 hours a week spent sourcing and screening. Safqos has not launched, so no measured time saving is claimed.

How it compares.

Safqos is not a directory or a list to search. It ranks Briefs against criteria both sides declared, and it keeps the rest of the deal in one place.

  • Yes
  • No
  • Sometimes
Compare with
SafqosCold email and LinkedInBrokers and bankersCrowdfunding portalsWarm intros
Both sides declare criteria up front
Fit shown before the first message
Shared NDA before documents
Documents watermarked to the viewer
Video calls in the same place
No fee taken from the deal*
Reach only people whose criteria fit
A first real conversation in days

Scroll sideways to see every column.

* Safqos takes no fee from deals during the beta; pricing after the beta will be announced before it applies. General comparison of common approaches, not specific companies.

A note from the founder.

Private capital still runs on cold intros and who you happen to know. That model is broken.

Think about how a deal starts today. A founder sends a deck to an investor who never writes checks at their stage. An owner spends months on investors who were never the right fit. An investor reads pitch after pitch to find the few worth a call. Everyone learns, one conversation at a time, what could have been known on day one: do we actually fit?

That costs more than time. It costs momentum, morale, and sometimes the company. Good deals die in that noise, not because they were bad, but because the right people never met.

Safqos is built to fix that. Both sides declare their criteria first. Every Brief shows Fit and a Risk signal before the first message. A shared NDA comes before any document. Calls, files and notes stay in one place. The first conversation is with someone who already fits.

I'm building it in Houston, and founding members get a direct line to me. It's a beta, so some things will be rough. If you've felt this problem, apply for the beta and help me fix it.

Shahmir HarrisFounder

Founding members.

Everyone accepted into the beta becomes a founding member, and these four things are yours.

  • Founding member badge

    Shown on your profile.

  • Beta access, free

    Everything in our top plan, free for the whole beta. Interests and Direct Pitches are paced while the group is small.

  • Founding Member pricing

    When we launch, 6 months of our top plan free. Then 50% off any plan for as long as your account exists.

  • A direct line to the founder

    Help shape the product.

Applying does not guarantee a place. The beta is for the Safqos iPhone app. Beta places are limited and balanced across investors, startups and businesses. Details are confirmed when you are accepted.

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Short answers.

What is Safqos?
Safqos is a private deal platform that connects investors, startup founders and business owners. Both sides declare their criteria, every Brief carries a Fit score and a Risk signal, and nothing sensitive opens until both sides accept a shared NDA. It is a U.S. beta of the Safqos iPhone app, with a web app alongside it.
Who is Safqos for?
Safqos is for investors, startup founders who are raising, and owners of operating businesses. Investors are angels, private investors, operator-investors, family offices and small funds. Founders run startups raising capital. Owners run operating companies raising growth capital, through equity, debt or revenue share. Each declares their criteria, and the Fit score reads one side's declaration against the other's.
What stops people from going silent after we connect?
Nothing can force someone to reply, but Safqos shows you the pattern before you invest time. Once a member has enough message history, their Brief and profile carry a plain line such as "Replies within hours" or "Sometimes goes quiet", worked out from how they actually answered past connections. Members without enough history show no line at all, so a missing line is not a warning.
How do I know the person on the other side is real?
You can't be certain, but there are several layers. A Verified badge appears only when both an identity check and an entity check have passed. Every member is admitted by application. You can report or block anyone from a chat or a profile, and reports are saved for the Safqos team to review. Safqos does not validate the figures or claims members make, so read the Dossier and do your own checks.
What does Safqos cost?
Free during the beta, with no fees on deals during the beta. After that, optional subscriptions and credits for things like a Direct Pitch. Pricing will be announced before it applies. Members accepted into the beta become founding members: Beta access free for the whole beta, then 6 months of our top plan free when Safqos launches, and 50% off any plan after that for as long as their account exists.
How do I sign up?
Apply at app.safqos.com. The application takes a few minutes on the web. The beta is for the Safqos iPhone app, U.S. only. We review every application, and places are limited and balanced across investors, startups and businesses. Members accepted into the beta become founding members and get TestFlight access to the iPhone app, plus the web app in the meantime. Founding members get a founding member badge on their profile, Beta access free for the whole beta (everything in our top plan, with Interests and Direct Pitches paced while the group is small), 6 months of our top plan free when Safqos launches, then 50% off any plan for as long as their account exists, and a direct line to the founder. Questions in the meantime go to [email protected].

All questions

The last cold intro.

Apply now See how it works

The beta is for the Safqos iPhone app. Apply here; accepted members get TestFlight access, plus the web app in the meantime.

Members accepted into the beta become founding members: free for the whole beta, then 6 months of our top plan free at launch and 50% off for good.

Questions: [email protected]