The referral is a record, not a message
Company, why it is interesting, how you know them, the warm path. It lands in the fund’s pipeline as a deal with your name on it, and the attribution survives a staff change.
For scouts & venture partners
You sent them a company. Then nothing came back.
Scouting dies in a WhatsApp message. You make an intro, the fund takes it from there, and six months later you find out on Twitter that they led the round. Scouts get their own role and their own surface — not a CC line on someone else’s thread.
Around the fund · no seat costThe fund invites you. A scout login is a role in their workspace, not a licence line.
Divya MenonScout
Nuva Tech · Investedreferred 12 Aug · scout credit
The loop, closed
Refer it, then watch it move.
Four stops, and the last one feeds the first: what you learn from the outcome changes what you send next.
You can see what happened to it
Stage, status and outcome. Not the memo, the vote or the diligence — just whether it moved.
A pass tells you something too
A pass shows up with a reason. A scout who learns the thesis in three months beats one guessing at it for two years.
Your track record is countable
Referrals sent, taken forward, invested. Both sides read the same list when the carry conversation comes round.
What it looks like
Four referrals, four honest answers.
One screen. It is deliberately small — a scout needs the state of their own referrals, not a second CRM to keep up with.
My referrals · 2026Divya Menon
Nuva Tech LimitedReferred 12 Aug · warm intro to the founder
InvestedKestrel LabsReferred 2 Sep · in the fund’s pipeline
In diligenceNorthwind DataReferred 8 Jul · too early for this fund
PassedAster LogisticsReferred 29 Aug
NewFour sent this year, one invested. The pass on Northwind carries a reason — that is the row that changes what you send next.
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What you cannot see, and why.
Your view is scoped to your own referrals. No fund pipeline, no other scouts’ deals, no portfolio marks, no LP side. That boundary is the reason a fund is willing to give you a login at all.
Your scopeYour referrals · stage, status, outcome
Not visibleThe fund’s pipeline
Not visibleOther scouts’ deals
Not visiblePortfolio marks
Not visibleThe LP side
If you run the fund
Scouts are a seat, not a licence line.
Members and seats are unlimited from Pro up, so a scout network is not a budget decision. Every scout is a role in your workspace with its own scope, and their referrals arrive in the same pipeline as everything else — scored, attributed and searchable — rather than in a spreadsheet somebody maintains out of loyalty. DSignal Angel gives co-investors their own portal on the same basis.
A scout who never learns the outcome is a scout you get one year of.
No competitor on our comparison pages ships a scout-facing surface. The closing of the loop is the entire product here, and it is four screens, not forty.