Evertrace, a Copenhagen company that helps venture capital firms find founders before their startups go public with a launch or a funding round, has acquired Veck, a startup discovery platform for early-stage investors. Evertrace announced the deal on its blog on October 26, 2026.
Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of the deal, all of Veck's customers are moving to Evertrace, and Veck's technology and investor-attention data will be built into Evertrace's detection platform, ArcticStartup reported. Veck's website now tells visitors that the product is part of Evertrace and directs them to book a call with the acquirer.
Veck is Evertrace's fourth acquisition, after Whisper AI, Seedpoint and Morphais.
What Veck built
Veck sold a feed of early startup signals to venture funds, angel investors and sales teams that want to reach new companies early. Its pitch was that startup databases list a company only after a round is announced, while the first signs of a new company appear months before that.
The product looked at two kinds of signal. One was founder activity, such as a job change, a profile bio that switches to "building something new", a code repository gaining attention or a quiet product launch. The other was investor attention: which investors start following or connecting with a founder. According to Veck's website, the platform only flagged a company when both kinds of signal pointed at it within a few weeks of each other.
Veck said it tracked more than 15,000 investor accounts and had more than 200,000 founders in its graph. Candidates were scored and de-duplicated by an AI filter, and then checked by an analyst before they appeared in a customer's feed. Customers could receive the results as an email digest, through a REST API, through an MCP server that lets AI agents query the data, or through connectors that push founders into Attio and Notion.
“We built Veck to help investors discover startups and founders they might otherwise miss.”
The team behind Veck
Veck started as a project at the Hook accelerator in Paris, according to its website. Chief executive Igor Studennikov built it for his own venture fund, because the companies he wanted to back were usually found by others before they were announced. It later became a product used by other funds.
The company's site lists a small team: Studennikov, co-founders Jakub Kaczmarski and Mikhail Miroshnikov, and data analyst Eugene Shemetov. Veck has not disclosed outside funding, revenue or customer numbers, and its founding year and country of incorporation are not stated in the announcement or on its website.
"We built Veck to help investors discover startups and founders they might otherwise miss," Studennikov said in comments reported by ArcticStartup and Øresund Startups. He said Evertrace's focus on early discovery made it a natural home for the product and thanked the customers who had helped shape it.
Why Evertrace is buying
Evertrace builds what it calls a founder detection engine. Its software pulls signals from sources such as trade registries, GitHub, patents, research papers, domain registrations, Product Hunt and hackathons to point investors to people who are starting companies, often before those companies launch. The company says it works with more than 300 venture capital funds worldwide.
In its announcement, Evertrace said Veck's investor-attention data was the most useful part of the deal, because interest from investors can show that someone is working on something new. Combining that with the founder and company-formation signals it already collects gives investors more context on which founders to approach, the company said.
"Investor interest can be an early signal that someone is building something new," said Simon Bøttkjær, co-founder of Evertrace. He added that spotting founders as they begin to attract that attention fits directly into Evertrace's work, and that Veck strengthens that capability.
A string of small deals
Evertrace has grown partly by buying smaller rivals. Veck follows the purchases of Whisper AI, Seedpoint and Morphais, and the company says each deal brings new technology or data sources into its detection engine. Øresund Startups has described Evertrace as the former Signal in its earlier coverage of the Whisper AI deal.
The deals put Evertrace in a crowded market for VC sourcing software. The company's own website compares its product with Harmonic, Specter, Synaptic, Dealroom, PitchBook and Crunchbase, all of which sell data on startups and founders to investors.
For Veck's customers, the immediate change is a move to Evertrace's platform. Neither company has said whether Veck's team will join Evertrace or whether the Veck product will continue to run as a separate service.
