quietmoneyPoach
Monitors who top venture firms have newly followed on Twitter, matches them to LinkedIn profiles and tags them with AI (founder/engineer/investor, etc.), and delivers the results as CSV, API, a daily email, and a twice-weekly newsletter, helping early-stage VCs spot founders before the seed round.
Jared Rhizor (XOne-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Revenue over time
Real payments synced by TrustMRR, in USD, by calendar month, renewals included. TrustMRR sync stopped 7 months ago; no data for later months.
- MRR
- $2,928
- Revenue, last 30 days
- $3,161
- All-time revenue
- $28,896
- Active subscriptions
- 50
- Payments via
- Stripe
- Source
- TrustMRR, synced from the founder's payment account
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- Monitors who top venture firms have newly followed on Twitter, matches them to LinkedIn profiles and tags them with AI (founder/engineer/investor, etc.), and delivers the results as CSV, API, a daily email, and a twice-weekly newsletter, helping early-stage VCs spot founders before the seed round.
- Users
- Venture firms and investors who invest at seed and earlier stages and need to spot entrepreneurs early
- Positioning
- Instead of relying on public funding databases, it uses the signal of "who a top VC just followed" to find founders who haven't raised yet, billed by the number of accounts tracked, with a very low entry point ($1/account/month, newsletter $29/month).
- Pricing
- Tracking custom accounts costs $1/account/month with a $100/month minimum and 16% off for annual billing; tracking Poach's preset Top VCs list is about $100/month (73% cheaper than buying one by one); the two newsletters, Top VCs and Europe Insights, are $29/month each; free trial available Billing: subscription Free tier: no Source: Homepage
- Prices on site
- $1/profile tracked/mo (16% off yearly); Newsletter Top VCs $29/mo; Newsletter Europe Insights $29/mo
“No referral, invite, share, gallery or embed elements visible; footer (c) 2026 Blue Whale Software; testimonial Poach's signaling is amazing”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: SEO (Non-brand search). Similarweb: direct is the top channel at 40.58%, followed by organic search (counted as SEO using a rank-based estimate of about 44.6%), with referrals under 9%. Nearly all search terms are people's names and niche topics (faiz hilaly, devansh priyadarshan, steven pang orbit, top tier vcs in israel), matching the VC Directory and Founder Directory pages on the website, which is long-tail search captured by directory pages. In 2025-05 the founder described it under the HN thread 'Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?': he sent many emails and LinkedIn DMs, and each newsletter issue @-mentions the founders and investors it features on Twitter, bringing a small but steady amount of exposure. Existing users come back through the daily email and the newsletter. TrustMRR has no founder-reported channels.
Last month's traffic sources
Top channel measured by Similarweb, others estimated by rank
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| SEO | 45% |
| Other | 55% |
Direct + brand search 41%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 70.28% |
| Nigeria | 27.6% |
| United Kingdom | 2.12% |
Language
English
Keywords
21 keywords · brand ~41% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| faiz hilaly |
| top tier vcs in israel |
| devansh priyadarshan |
| steven pang orbit |
| bihan mahadewa |
Non-brand queries: faiz hilaly, top tier vcs in israel, devansh priyadarshan, steven pang orbit, bihan mahadewa
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits MoM
- -26.5%
- Country rank
- United States #1856687
- Bounce rate
- 39.44%
- Pages / visit
- 1.65
- Visit duration
- 00:00:10
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Organic Search › Referrals (top channel 40.58%)
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Not found”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via SEO
FAQ
How much revenue does Poach make per month?
TrustMRR revenue sync stopped 7 months ago; the last full month was about $3,189, #320 of 563 TrustMRR sites.
Where do Poach's new users come from?
New-user source: SEO (Non-brand search). New users mostly come from need-based searches Similarweb: direct is the top channel at 40.58%, followed by organic search (counted as SEO using a rank-based estimate of about 44.6%), with referrals under 9%. Nearly all search terms are people's names and niche topics (faiz hilaly, devansh priyadarshan, steven pang orbit, top tier vcs in israel), matching the VC Directory and Founder Directory pages on the website, which is long-tail search captured by directory pages. In 2025-05 the founder described it under the HN thread 'Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?': he sent many emails and LinkedIn DMs, and each newsletter issue @-mentions the founders and investors it features on Twitter, bringing a small but steady amount of exposure. Existing users come back through the daily email and the newsletter. TrustMRR has no founder-reported channels.
How much does Poach cost?
Tracking custom accounts costs $1/account/month with a $100/month minimum and 16% off for annual billing; tracking Poach's preset Top VCs list is about $100/month (73% cheaper than buying one by one); the two newsletters, Top VCs and Europe Insights, are $29/month each; free trial available
Dossier confidence: medium. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The numbers: revenue comes from TrustMRR: real payments synced automatically from the founder's Stripe or other payment account, summed by calendar month, renewals included, in USD. Site visits come from the Similarweb public page; where it shows none, they are estimated from global rank or the TrustMRR payment count, as noted on the page.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-31.