Serafis GTM brain

Serafis sells source-attributed private-market intelligence from expert and management conversations to investors and consultants.

category

Private markets research intelligence

market profile

  • text: Private-market researchers need insight from management and experts that conventional market data may not capture.
  • text: Its indexed transcript corpus supports sourcing, diligence, market mapping and portfolio monitoring.

personas

  • title: Venture or growth investment professional
    pains:
    • Sourcing relevant companies and learning founders' priorities requires extensive manual research.
    • Early diligence lacks readily searchable management commentary.
  • title: Consulting research or strategy lead
    pains:
    • Comparing private companies across a market requires stitching together fragmented expert interviews.
    • Research findings need traceable evidence for client work.

icp

  • text: Venture and growth funds researching private companies, including firms with dedicated sourcing or diligence teams.
  • text: Large consulting firms conducting market mapping and company research; the site cites two of three top consulting firms.

message pillars

  • text: Use evidence from management and independent experts.
  • text: Find relevant conversations at scale.
  • text: Verify the original context behind research findings.

objections

  • objection: We already have a market intelligence platform.
    response: Compare coverage for a live diligence question and inspect the incremental management interviews and citations.
  • objection: Our research lives in internal tools.
    response: Explore the API, MCP server or warehouse delivery against the firm's integration and security requirements.

competitors

  • name: AlphaSense
    why: Research platform with searchable expert and earnings transcripts, overlapping on investor research.
  • name: Exa
    why: Search provider included in Serafis's transcript discovery benchmark.
  • name: OpenAI
    why: Its web-search model is a benchmarked alternative for discovery.

influencers

  • name: Rohan Sharma
    url: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/serafis
    why: Founder and CEO shaping the company's private-market research proposition.

keywords

  • private market intelligence
  • venture capital market research
  • podcast transcript search
  • private company diligence
  • investor sourcing tools
  • market mapping software

voice

  • Research-led
  • Evidence-oriented
  • Institutional

signals

  • text: A fund is expanding thematic sourcing or building a new market map.
  • text: A research team wants management commentary integrated into its internal data or agent workflows.

stack

  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • REST API
  • MCP

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • LinkedIn
  • SEO
  • research benchmarks

confidence

medium

Founders

  • name: Rohan Sharma
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Rohan is the Founder and CEO of Serafis. He was formerly the Head of Data at Ribbit Capital ($12B AUM). Prior to that, he was a Software Engineer at Google, then bootstrapped and exited Kosmos - a data integrations SaaS for wealth managers. He studied Computer Science at Princeton University.

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