Another way of thinking about the warm-intro suggestion is that most investors are overwhelmed with pitches and need a basic filter. Other expert humans are sti

Another way of thinking about the warm-intro suggestion is that most investors are overwhelmed with pitches and need a basic filter. Other expert humans are still the best filter they have. Which is kind of too bad, because all of those humans also face the same constraints on their time, network and expertise. While it may be far-fetched, it's interesting to think about how we might create a more automatic filter for startups that would surface those both of interest to the VC and with some chance of success, relying on self-reported data in Crunchbase and Angel List, biographical data about the founding team and its network, and maybe press and analyst reports about an industry.