I am working on a startup to solve financial challenges I have faced since I got access to internet in my home country, I am in the US now and I have the tools to do it, we have a working product and it's profitable with organic traction and decided it's time to raise money from investors to properly operate the business.Let's go back in time.in 2018, my wife who immigrated with me wanted to work in Fashion, with  no connections to the industry, I built a primitive search tool that takes a sentence as argument and returns a spreadsheet type formatted result
The goal was to get a list of "name & contact details of people who work or represents fashion brands that participated in last NYFW".I used the CFDA website as a point of entry and surprisingly,ran the tool and had good results, reached out to a few PR agencies and brands and got in, I did the same for the Paris and now she's officially in the industry working with top brands.Fast forward March 2021, looking for investors for the startup I discussed above, I tweaked a bit this old script to find "US based VCs who invest in early stage in the [X industry] who made at least 1 investment in the last 2 years", the results are impressive : VC firm name, location, investment stage, list of partners name, email address, sometimes phone number and addresses, etc.The script relies on Google/Yandex advanced search features, and publicly available data, SEC fillings or old blog posts, podcast transcripts, crunchbase  etc.For now I will keep this a side project / hobby and experiment with it, I think it could be an alternative way to search for specific stuff online.PS: the number of private information available online is alarming.Thank you for reading, would love your thoughts on this.