AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to 21st Fund
I built this after struggling to find relevant grants and fellowships myself. The project started at the EF Hackathon as a credit underwriting and matching agent for founders. After speaking with founders and students, it became clear that discovery itself was the bigger problem. Most people do not know what grants or non-dilutive options exist for them. So I iterated and built 21st.fund. You describe who you are and what you are building, and the tool surfaces relevant grants, fellowships, and programs. The goal is to reduce time spent digging through scattered government sites, PDFs, and…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Exitfund▲735We make raising startup capital easy using community & AI
2023 · exitfund.com · its alternatives →
- 2IM
Hi Guys, I got overwhelming support and feedback from my last post about secondfounder.com but still, I felt the need of connecting founders together so that they can together buy a side project. It's very often when a non-technical founder buys a project they have to find a technical founder to take that project further. Today I have implemented this feature in secondfounder.com Link: https://secondfounder.com/find-founder Your feedback is always welcome. Thanks
2022 · its alternatives →
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Fundrise▲138The first low-cost private market investment advisor
2017 · fundrise.com · its alternatives →
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Why investors should be ary of investing from patterns
2017 · content.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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AI Matchmaker for Startups and Investors🤖📊
2024 · fundbase.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi there. I built a company that makes algorithmic trading strategies for its users to invest with. --> https://justfor.fund Advice and feedback are very much welcomed! Disclaimer: New born business with its first beta version (12 users) currently live. Details: - I'm the sole developer and founder - I applied to YC S22 batch on the last day - Currently facing a big KYC compliance wall (code and protocols) - My priority right now is obtaining funds to cover minimal operational cost's. Need to pay for broker partnership costs too. - I have essentially no funds to cover cost's right…
2022 · justfor.fund · its alternatives →
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Exclusive demo day preview with 5 new startups
2016 · thepitch.show · its alternatives →
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Share your LinkedIn. Receive a decision + reasoning in 24h.
Dec 2025 · founder.rule30.vc · its alternatives →
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Why building a fund is like a company
2016 · hwcdn.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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Founder @ Workable joins us to discuss his funding journey.
2015 · content.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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Advice on how entrepreneurs can attract VC funding.
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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500's New Fund, Startup Mentoring and Dave's Masterplan
2015 · content.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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Fundearning Platform - Earn money for your favorite cause!
2015 · givingprivilege.com · its alternatives →
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A new algorithm for Investors to detect unicorns early
2017 · followtheseed.vc · its alternatives →
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Homebot, VisionX, BIGcontrols, Bright Policy and Indio
2016 · thepitch.show · its alternatives →
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hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this. anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)
2022 · joinmaasive.com · its alternatives →
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The power of gratitude to intentionally experimenting in VC
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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We built a search engine that matches startup descriptions with investors based on their historical investments. Write your startup description and get a list of investors who've backed similar companies. Technical implementation: - Indexed 9k active VC funds and ~5k angels globally - Fine-tuned a custom embedding model on real-world pairs of investors and companies - Developed an identity resolution system to collate portfolio data across many sources including portfolio websites scraped with a custom AI agent Key features: - Search full investor database without signing up - Optional…
2024 · graph.one · its alternatives →
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Hey, just wanted to share with you guys and app that I built and deployed in a day with Lovable. So, as a founder I always wanted to have an advisor but my budget would always be less, then on the other hand hand I had Paul's essays on Startup Advice, which I never read because I was busy building stuff. Hence, I built this product which comes into a sweet spot of both at the same time being more reasonable and capable than the alternative. ps: it's running on a reasoning model and tbh I've been able to gather pretty good insights from it. Note to PG: If you're seeing this. I'm your big fan.…
2025 · paulgraham.resurrect.space · its alternatives →
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Find sources of funding for your startup and non-profit.
Jul 2026 · fundingdiscovered.com · its alternatives →
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