Today, we’re opening Grounds.vc in public beta. We are building a clean, AI-native way to explore European fundraising activity.

We started building Grounds.vc out of a growing discomfort with existing fundraising overview platforms. Most of the time, we simply wanted a clear overview of previous fundraises, but instead had to work our way through complex interfaces, irrelevant information, and other distracting elements.

We realised that the ideal fundraise data platform would have the following properties:

- It has accurate data and a clean UI.
- It offers broad European coverage.
- It publishes new rounds immediately.
- It works intuitively for both humans and AI agents.
- It makes every data point traceable to primary sources.
- It is fairly priced, respects privacy and has no adds or trackers

Grounds.vc aims to provide exactly that. We achieve this by leveraging a modern AI stack that combines deterministic and agentic tools. Furthermore, we’re proud to be building on an almost entirely European tech stack (more on that in a later post).

The core platform is ready to use today: you can explore the deal feed, search and filter the data, and trace each data point back to its primary sources. We’re continuing to expand coverage, improve the product, and refine the experience with feedback from early users. We will soon release a high-level roadmap describing the next features.

For now, please create a free account, explore the platform, and see how it can benefit your daily workflow. Feedback is especially welcome at this early stage, so please send us a message directly on X.com or via email.

Pro membership will be available shortly.

Thanks,

Bastiaan

PS: And yes, I realise the current layout is seriously lacking colour. We will fix this after we have decided upon our final branding :-)