Two founders share a table at a coffee shop in San Francisco. One mentions she's applying to a16z Speedrun. The other says her roommate is a scout there. By the time the lattes are cold, there's a referral on its way.
The Speedrun application is open globally. But the way most founders actually get in involves a referral from a scout or partner. And most of those people are in SF.
We're from Lisbon. We're applying to SR007 with noticed, and the first thing we tried to do was figure out all the people that could influence our application. There's no good list anywhere. So we built one and made it public.
It's at noticed.so/speedrun. 835 people connected to a16z Speedrun — alumni founders, partners, scouts, and the team. The directory is public. Anyone can browse it.
You can search by name or current company, filter by sector, region, or cohort, and switch between list and grid view. No login required.
If you sign in with Google or LinkedIn, we'll seed a starting shortlist of 5–10 people you should reach out to first (same sector or region as you, that kind of thing). You can add or remove anyone from the directory, and mark off people you've already pinged.
And if you want honest feedback before you hit submit, we added a roast feature. Paste your deck or application text, and noticed will give you a brutally honest, mildly hilarious review. Think Comedy Central roast meets VC partner meeting.
If you're applying to Speedrun from somewhere that isn't San Francisco, we built this for you.
This simple tool is a sample of what we're actually building.
noticed is your networking agent. It understands your intent, remembers everyone you've ever met, and turns your dormant network into an unfair advantage. It builds a weighted map of your relationships across calendar, linkedin, and github, and texts you when something meaningful happens: an old contact starts a fund, a friend opens a role you'd be perfect for, someone you admire is in town.
Your brain only remembers 5% of your network. noticed unlocks the other 95%.