# GitDealFlow, Full Reference for AI Agents > GitDealFlow is a deal-flow signal tool for investors, not a fund. It reads public GitHub engineering activity (commit velocity, contributor growth, repository expansion) across 350+ startups and surfaces the ones quietly accelerating, historically 3-6 weeks before fundraise announcements. > > **Disambiguation:** "Engineering acceleration" on this site refers exclusively to quantitative, code-side momentum signals computed from public GitHub activity. It is NOT a reference to startup accelerator programs (Y Combinator, Techstars, etc.). # GitDealFlow, Startup Signals 21-47 Days Before the Round URL: https://gitdealflow.com/ GitDealFlow, Startup Signals 21-47 Days Before the Round Skip to main content GitDealFlow Home Signals First Look Dashboard Insider Pricing Get the 5 names Get this Sunday s 5 names Home Signals First Look Dashboard Insider Pricing For angels who source outside a fund and the scouts seed funds who serve them Every Sunday you wait is a round you'll hear about a week too late. That gap is your whole edge. See which startups are heating up 21 to 47 days before the round I call it the Velocity Verdict . GitDealFlow reads the public GitHub activity of 350+ startups , spots the ones accelerating, and sends you five names every Sunday so you reach the founder before the round exists , not after the press announces it. Email address Get this Sunday s 5 names ✓ Free I cover the compute ✓ Unsubscribe in one click ✓ One email, every Sunday This Sunday s five are already locked. Be on the list when it sends. Three signals that together predict a fundraise: velocity surge contributor spike infrastructure buildout What Five startups accelerating on GitHub , in plain English no code. When 21 to 47 days before the round hits the press. Why Because by the time it s obvious, the allocation is gone and the price has jumped. 1 Get this Sunday's 5 names (90s) 2 Confirm your email read the issue 3 Reach the founder before the round Covering the fast-growing software startups everyone s about to fight over and more. See a real issue first Watch the 12-minute walkthrough Not sure yet? Tell me your lane I ll tailor your first issue. Angel investor Writing personal checks, sourcing outside a fund Scout / syndicate lead Sourcing deal flow for a larger firm or network Seed fund / VC Professional allocator with institutional LP capital Corporate development Evaluating companies for M&A or strategic investment Builder / operator Running a startup, reading the competitive landscape Other curious mind Data nerd, academic, journalist, just exploring Pick one I ll take you to the signup and tune your first issue to it. Why it s good for you What you get by seeing it first Get in early cheap Reach the founder before the round fills up and the price jumps. Be first to the founder Talk to them before the crowd shows up, while they still have time for you. No hard work for you I read the engineering signal and tell you why it s hot, in plain English, a few minutes a week. Receipts, not testimonials The same signal lit up weeks before these rounds. Each of these showed the engineering-acceleration pattern in public before the round hit the press recognizable, venture-scale, and auditable, not a name you take on faith. To count in the panel, the signal had to predate the event by at least 30 days. Cursor AI dev tools Their engineers were shipping far more code, and more developers piled in all in the open through 2024, ahead of the priced round. Signal ▲ weeks before $2.6B Series B Thrive Capital Supabase Dev infrastructure A steady climb in code shipped, plus a relentless w... --- # About GitDealFlow, The Signal Behind the Velocity Verdict URL: https://gitdealflow.com/about About GitDealFlow, The Signal Behind the Velocity Verdict About GitDealFlow By The Data Nerd · July 2026 What GitDealFlow is GitDealFlow is a deal-flow signal tool, not a fund, not a VC, and not a startup database. It reads the public GitHub engineering activity of 350+ venture-backed startups and flags the ones accelerating weeks before the round or the press. The signal is called the Velocity Verdict: commit velocity, contributor growth, and infrastructure buildout tracked quantitatively over time. Investors use it to see which startups are heating up 21 to 47 days before the fundraise announcement. You don't read code, it surfaces the names, you make the calls. Who built it GitDealFlow was built by The Data Nerd , an engineer and occasional angel investor based in Athens, not San Francisco. With no partner network, no demo-day badge, and a preference for reading commit histories over working a conference, he kept hearing about the great companies a week too late, after the round was full and the price had jumped. In 2024, he watched a small fintech team accelerate on GitHub weeks before their $4M Series A. Every clue had been sitting in the open. He couldn't un-see it. So he built a tool that reads that trail every week and hands investors the names quietly taking off, in plain words, no code. How it works The signal tracks three metrics across startup GitHub organizations: 1. Commit velocity, are engineers suddenly shipping far more code? 2. Contributor growth, are new developers piling into the repo? 3. Infrastructure buildout, are new services, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment configs appearing? Together, these three signals form a pattern that historically precedes fundraise announcements by 3 to 7 weeks. The full methodology is published on SSRN with an open dataset, so the signal never depends on one person having a good week. What GitDealFlow is NOT GitDealFlow is not affiliated with any startup accelerator program (Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Global). The term "engineering acceleration" refers to the quantitative GitHub signal, not a startup accelerator. It is not a fund, not an investment advisor, and does not make investment recommendations. It surfaces data; investors make decisions. It is not a replacement for Crunchbase or PitchBook, those are databases that record rounds after they happen. GitDealFlow is a leading indicator that fires before the round exists. Transparency and open science The methodology is open: SSRN preprint 6606558 describes the panel, the signal computation, and the validation against 219 startup-period observations across 55 startups. The dataset is versioned on Zenodo . The source code for the MCP server and Chrome extension is open-source on GitHub. The operator remains pseudonymous for a reason: if the signal needed a charismatic founder to land, it wouldn't be a signal. The methodology is the protagonist. Contact Email: signals@gitdealflow.com Telegram: @gitdealflow Wikidata: Q139376302 ← Back ... --- # Pricing, GitDealFlow URL: https://gitdealflow.com/pricing Open GitDealFlow offers: free Sunday digest; EUR 1 Tweet Teardown; EUR 7 First Look Pass; Dashboard at EUR 49/month or EUR 490/year, with two months free; and Custom Sector Sweep at EUR 1,997 one-time. Insider enrollment is closed until a dated delivery calendar, redacted delivered artifact, support process, and verified payment probe are public. Every open paid offer carries a 30-day Signal-or-It's-Free guarantee. Canonical pricing: https://gitdealflow.com/pricing --- # Dashboard, GitDealFlow URL: https://gitdealflow.com/dashboard GitDealFlow Dashboard is the weekly operating layer: 60+ startups across 15 sectors, refreshed weekly with a plain-English reason for each momentum signal. Price: EUR 49/month or EUR 490/year, with two months free and a EUR 98 annual saving. Both plans carry the 30-day Signal-or-It's-Free guarantee and can be cancelled in Stripe. Monthly checkout: https://buy.stripe.com/fZu28q34DdVKawC6vS0x20g Annual checkout: https://buy.stripe.com/aFa5kC34DeZOawC6vS0x20c --- # Insider Circle, GitDealFlow URL: https://gitdealflow.com/insider Insider enrollment is not open. GitDealFlow does not accept payment for this higher-touch offer while its dated delivery calendar, redacted delivered artifact, support process, and member experience are not evidenced publicly. Use Dashboard for the current self-serve subscription or Custom Sector Sweep for scoped research. Status: https://gitdealflow.com/insider --- # First Look Pass, GitDealFlow URL: https://gitdealflow.com/firstlook First Look Pass, GitDealFlow Skip to main content GitDealFlow Home Signals First Look Dashboard Insider Pricing First Look Get my First Look Home Signals First Look Dashboard Insider Pricing Lowest-friction paid step One sector. One deep dive. One day. TL;DR: First Look Pass is a 24-hour sector briefing: pick one sector, get back a ranked shortlist of accelerating startups in plain English. €7 once, covered by the 30-day Signal-or-It's-Free guarantee. If you upgrade to Dashboard within the 14-day upgrade credit window, the €7 comes off your first month. Give us one sector you're sizing up. In 24 hours you get back a ranked shortlist of who's actually accelerating, in plain English you can take straight into a meeting, without borrowing an engineer's afternoon. Get my First Look Price: €7 once Compare all tiers The honest version of urgency €7 once. Your dive lands within 24 hours. I won't fake a countdown at you. The only clock that matters is your own: if the thesis is live this week, that's when a 24-hour answer is worth most. And if you upgrade to Dashboard within the 14-day upgrade credit window, the €7 comes off, so a "no" today costs you nothing. Why I built this, The Data Nerd You've had a sector thesis sitting in your notes for weeks. I built First Look for exactly that. You save a market map, bookmark three companies, tell yourself you'll come back on Sunday, and then the week takes over. I know the feeling from the other side: I'm an engineer, not a dealmaker, and honestly I'm useless in a room. I'd rather read a commit history than work a conference. So the only way I ever learned who was accelerating was to read the repos myself. The Sunday before a $4M round I should have been in, I'd already drafted the three-line note to the founder, I'd seen exactly how their team was shipping, and then I talked myself out of sending it. Three weeks later the deck went out and the round closed inside a week. The read was right. I just sat on it. First Look exists so you never have to. That's the whole deal here. You don't read code, that's my job. Give me one sector and I'll spend the next day reading the public engineering activity across it, then hand you back a ranked shortlist in plain English, the kind of read you can take into a meeting and sound early, not technical. That's what a First Mover does: reach the founder before the round, on a signal someone else already read for you. One thesis, one clean answer, while the question still has heat. What actually lands in your inbox Two lines from a dive, anonymised, but this is the exact shape. A verdict, the reason in plain English, and what to do about it. Never a chart you have to decode. Worth a meeting Company A, settlement-layer fintech. Engineering headcount roughly doubled in six weeks, and they're quietly shipping the FX edge-case handling rivals will copy within a year. Reach the founder before the round. Pass for now Company B, same sector. Loud hiring announcement, but t... --- # Chrome Extension, GitDealFlow URL: https://gitdealflow.com/chrome Chrome Extension, GitDealFlow GitDealFlow Home Signals First Look Dashboard Insider Pricing Install Install the free lens Home Signals First Look Dashboard Insider Pricing Free lens Put the signal where you already look. The Chrome extension is not a paid tier. It is a free surface that drops GitDealFlow’s signal directly onto Crunchbase and Wellfound so you can spot momentum without opening another tab. Install Install the free lens Urgency timer Your install window closes in 05:00 You have five minutes to keep this install session active before it resets. Why this exists If you already check Crunchbase or Wellfound, the signal should meet you there instead of asking you to remember one more dashboard. What it does Shows the signal on Crunchbase and Wellfound profiles Lets you see momentum without changing workflow Acts as a free lens on top of the public web Keeps the surface lightweight and frictionless Where it sits in the ladder This is a bonus surface, not a conversion step. It helps you notice the signal in-context. The conversion still happens on the apex. The free Sunday email is the main path. The deeper proof still lives on signals.gitdealflow.com. Why this matters You get the output where you already work. The extension turns deeper public engineering work into a simple, visible signal on the pages you already check. Privacy and methodology No account. No telemetry. No cookies. The extension checks the page URL, queries the public GitDealFlow surface, and renders the signal inline. Methodology: signals.gitdealflow.com/methodology Research anchor: ssrn.com/abstract=6606558 Home Signals Dashboard Privacy GitDealFlow Chrome extension 21-47 Days earlier 47 Days before deck 3 Clicks to verify €5 First teardown Every deal you hear about late already had a signal 3 weeks ago. Stop being last. Get a Teardown → 🛡️ Verify the claim in three clicks or you do not pay. Founding price locked. --- # Brand Assets, GitDealFlow URL: https://gitdealflow.com/brand Brand Assets, GitDealFlow GitDealFlow Home Signals Partners Pricing Download icon For partners, affiliates press Brand assets Everything you need to mention, link, or review the product. Short version: call it VC Deal Flow Signal by GitDealFlow, use the assets as-is, and don t imply we endorsed you. Icon The G mark SVG, scales to any size. Keep the gradient tile; don t recolor it or crop the glyph out. Download SVG Wordmark GitDealFlow, as text Git Deal Flow The wordmark is just styled text: bold system sans, tight tracking, white on the dark background. One word, capital G, D, and F never Gitdealflow or git deal flow. Palette Two colors carry the brand Signal orange (accent) #ff6b1a Dark background #0f172a Orange is for the signal moments only; almost everything else sits on the dark slate. If in doubt, use more dark and less orange. Social card The OG image Use this 1200 630 card when you link the site. Hotlinking is fine: signals.gitdealflow.com/opengraph-image Usage How to talk about it Call the product VC Deal Flow Signal by GitDealFlow on first mention; GitDealFlow after that. Credit the author as The Data Nerd the project is deliberately pseudonymous. No real name, face, or voice exists to use. Describe it accurately: a deal-flow signal tool for investors, not a fund and not investment advice. Don t imply GitDealFlow endorses, sponsors, or partners with you unless we ve agreed to that in writing. Don t stretch, recolor, or remix the icon, and don t use the assets as your own product branding. Questions, or need something not on this page? Email signals@gitdealflow.com . GitDealFlow is a deal-flow signal tool for investors not a fund. Home Partners Pricing Privacy Terms 2026 GitDealFlow. 21-47 Days earlier 47 Days before deck 3 Clicks to verify €5 First teardown Every deal you hear about late already had a signal 3 weeks ago. Stop being last. Get a Teardown → 🛡️ Verify the claim in three clicks or you do not pay. Founding price locked. --- # Sample report, GitDealFlow built on VC Deal Flow Signal URL: https://gitdealflow.com/report Sample report, GitDealFlow built on VC Deal Flow Signal Skip to main content GitDealFlow Home Signals First Look Dashboard Insider Pricing Get it Get the free Sunday email Home Signals First Look Dashboard Insider Pricing Sample report · What the free weekly email looks like A simple read of what s heating up, not a wall of raw data. TL;DR: This report shows a sample of the exact output GitDealFlow delivers: startups flagged as heating up early, each with sector, stage, and a plain-English note on why it matters. The signal is based on public GitHub engineering activity, refreshed weekly. GitDealFlow is a signal tool for investors, not a fund. This page shows the exact output: the startups its signal flagged as heating up early, in plain language, each with a short why-it-matters note. 5 names 1 email 0 card required Verify the sample fast Methodology See how the signal is built and what the SSRN panel actually measured. Comparison See where this stack helps earlier than the usual alternative-data surfaces. Get the live Sunday issue If the sample feels right, go straight back to the free weekly watchlist. Why this sample matters If this feels calmer than the usual deal-flow firehose, that is the point. You should be able to read it quickly, keep the names that matter, and move on with your week. 1 orbiternassp Space Tech Engineering momentum spike +329% Momentum change 30 Commits (14d) 37 Contributors Growth Stage Why it matters: the team’s public engineering footprint accelerated sharply in a short window. That usually means an internal change worth paying attention to before the outside narrative catches up. 2 akto-api-security Cybersecurity Sustained momentum +75% Momentum change 267 Commits (14d) 53 Contributors US Geography Why it matters: this is less about a one-week anomaly and more about a sustained high-output team still accelerating. That tends to matter more than one flashy spike. 3 NDLANO EdTech Platform rebuild +32% Momentum change 29 Commits (14d) 38 Contributors EU Geography Why it matters: not every useful signal is explosive. Sometimes the point is that a meaningful team is rebuilding core systems in public, which often precedes a bigger strategic move. Where this page sits This page is a sample, not the whole proof library. If you want to verify the claim properly, use the same three proof surfaces every time: methodology, comparison, and this sample output. If that stack feels solid, go back to the apex and take the free Sunday email. See which alternative-data stack helps you move earlier Send me the next Sunday issue What startup engineering momentum means Timing and verification are not the same thing Free Sunday email 5 names, plain English Get it Home Signals First Look Dashboard Privacy GitDealFlow sample report 2026 GitDealFlow signals@gitdealflow.com 21-47 Days earlier 47 Days before deck 3 Clicks to verify €5 First teardown Every deal you hear about late already had a signal 3 weeks ago. Stop being last. Get a Teard... --- # Free Startup GitHub Signals Dataset, Download CSV + JSON | GitDealFlow URL: https://gitdealflow.com/dataset Free Startup GitHub Signals Dataset, Download CSV + JSON | GitDealFlow GitDealFlow Pricing Get free signal Free Startup GitHub Signals Dataset 350+ trending startups ranked by engineering velocity. Download as CSV or JSON. Updated weekly. CC BY 4.0. TL;DR: The GitDealFlow signals dataset tracks 350+ startups across 15 sectors using public GitHub engineering data. Every Monday, the scan refreshes with commit velocity, contributor growth, and new repository creation for each tracked startup. The full dataset is free to download, no signup required. Licensed Creative Commons BY 4.0. Download the dataset Two formats, same data. No email, no API key, no credit card. Download CSV, Spreadsheet-ready. Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, pandas, R. Download JSON, Developer-ready. Structured data for apps, dashboards, MCP servers. OpenAPI spec, Full API documentation for programmatic access. What is in the dataset The dataset contains one row per tracked startup, scored on three dimensions of public GitHub activity: Field Description Example name Startup name Supabase sector One of 15 sectors developer-tools commit_velocity_14d Total commits to main repo, rolling 14 days 342 velocity_change_pct Percent change vs prior 14-day window +47.3% contributors_active Distinct contributors, 6-week window 28 contributor_growth_rate 6-week growth rate +12.5% new_repos_30d New public repos created in last 30 days 3 signal_type Classification: breakout, acceleration, steady, cooling breakout detected_date When the signal first appeared 2026-07-14 How the dataset is built Every Sunday at approximately 09:00 UTC, the scan collects public GitHub activity metrics across 350+ startup organizations. The methodology uses three signals: commit velocity (14-day rolling), contributor growth (6-week window), and new repository creation (30-day window). The full methodology is documented at signals.gitdealflow.com/methodology . An SSRN preprint analyzing the predictive power of GitHub engineering signals for startup funding is available: abstract_id=6606558 . Citation If you use this dataset in research, analysis, or a product, cite it as: VC Deal Flow Signal (signals.gitdealflow.com), Q3 2026 data. https://gitdealflow.com/dataset License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share, adapt, and build upon this data for any purpose, including commercial, provided you cite GitDealFlow as the source. Programmatic access Beyond the static downloads, the data is available through three free interfaces: MCP server: npx -y @gitdealflow/mcp-signal (for Claude, Cursor, any MCP host) REST API: GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/signals.json CSV export: GET https://signals.gitdealflow.com/api/signals.csv Download CSV now Download JSON 2026 GitDealFlow · Home · All Datasets · Pricing · CC BY 4.0 --- # The Velocity Verdict Cheat Sheet, the 14-day pattern that predicts a raise | GitDealFlow URL: https://gitdealflow.com/cheatsheet The Velocity Verdict Cheat Sheet, the 14-day pattern that predicts a raise | GitDealFlow Skip to main content GitDealFlow Get the cheat sheet Free cheat sheet for angels, scouts seed funds The 14-day pattern that has appeared in 219 startup-period observations across 55 startups . TL;DR: Free one-page cheat sheet: the three-signal pattern (velocity surge, contributor spike, infrastructure buildout) that appeared in 219 startup-period observations across 55 startups, with a scannable table and the 14-day window to watch. Based on the SSRN-published methodology. Three engineering signals fire together in a two-week window. When they do, history says a round follows 21 to 47 days before the press notices . This is the one-page version of the method, free. Get the cheat sheet free ✓ One page ✓ No code ✓ Unsubscribe in one click What s on the page Everything you need to read the signal nothing you don t. No 40-page e-book, no video funnel. One printable page you can pin above your desk: the three signals, the window, the lead time, and the one question that tells you whether a startup is about to raise. 1 The Velocity Surge How to read a commit-output deviation from a startup s own baseline the 2x 4x over 14 days that is the earliest indicator. What it looks like, and what it doesn t. 2 The Contributor Spike Why new developers joining the public repo in a concentrated window means the team is scaling before the hire announcement and how to spot it without reading code. 3 The Infrastructure Buildout New repos, new services, new architecture: the groundwork a company lays for the product that justifies the round. The signal investors almost never look for. The 14-day window the one question When all three fire inside two weeks, the pattern reflects the published lead-time finding: a median 5.4 weeks between signal and fundraise, with top-decile precision of ~65% in the 219-fundraise panel. The cheat sheet ends with the one question to ask before you reach out. Get it free Drop your email the cheat sheet lands in your inbox now. You get the one-page cheat sheet immediately. You also get the free Sunday Signal five startups the pattern flagged that week, each in plain English. No card, ever. One click to unsubscribe. Email address Send me the cheat sheet ✓ The cheat sheet + every Sunday issue ✓ No card ✓ Unsubscribe in one click The full method lives at signals.gitdealflow.com/methodology . The cheat sheet is the plain-English version for investors who never want to read code. Not sure yet? See the full landing page , or read a real sample issue first. The cheat sheet will still be here. GitDealFlow is a deal-flow signal tool for investors not a fund. Home Walkthrough Dashboard Privacy Terms 2026 GitDealFlow. Proof surfaces live on signals.gitdealflow.com. 21-47 Days earlier 47 Days before deck 3 Clicks to verify €5 First teardown Every deal you hear about late already had a signal 3 weeks ago. Stop being last. Get a Teardown → 🛡️ Verify the claim in three clicks or you do not pay. Founding price locked. --- # Key Statistics, machine-readable JSON URL: https://signals.gitdealflow.com/stats.json Every headline number as structured, citation-ready JSON: the 21 to 47 day fundraise lead time (median 5.4 weeks), top-decile precision ~65%, the 219-observation panel (55 startups, five quarters), commit-velocity distribution (median 71, p90 392 commits per 14 days), signal mix, and live coverage. Each stat carries a verbatim-quotable claim and a canonical source URL. Human-readable companion: https://signals.gitdealflow.com/stats. Cite as: VC Deal Flow Signal (signals.gitdealflow.com), SSRN preprint 6606558. CC BY 4.0.