Martin Tobias opens Investor Match, an AI tool that ranks which investors may say yes

Martin Tobias, the Loudeye founder who now runs Incisive Ventures from Spokane, has opened Investor Match to any founder, GeekWire reported Thursday. Founders upload a pitch deck and get 20 investors ranked by stage, check size, geography and what each firm has actually backed, plus draft outreach emails the tool does not send. A free preview shows all 20 matches with the top three fully expanded. The full list costs $20, which Tobias said roughly covers API costs of about $1,000 a month.

Tobias said he was pitched by about 4,500 startups last year and wrote 10 checks. Investor Match began as an internal tool for Incisive portfolio companies hunting seed and Series A money. He said he has 17,000 contacts but can keep only about 150 in his head. Every founder he turns down now gets pointed to the tool. Founders have told him they have raised more than $100 million through matches since the platform launched about six months ago, though he said he cannot verify that because the money does not flow through Investor Match.