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We have just lauched a website for our upcoming SPARQL Database Server. We would like to attract the interest of international seed investors, but we are not sure where to start looking. We are based in Norway, but are interested in seed investors worldwide. Anyone know how we should go about looking for them?

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Register at angel.co (AngelList). Make sure to populate your profile as much as you can, before publishing it (this is very important). Either way, you'll find more investors there then anywhere else.

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Why down vote? It's a good resource for finding investors. Exactly what the question asks. – Dmitry Grinberg Jan 23 '12 at 22:26
I agree, don't know why you got downvoted. I have added my company there as you suggested, angel.co/meronymy-1 . No one is following me or showing any interest yet, though :( But thanks anyways :) I will vote you up so you get 0 again. – Inge Henriksen Jan 25 '12 at 9:03
I've been on AngelList for 5 days now and only gotten 3 views from investors and no followers. I don't know if the problem is my business, the sales pitch, or anything else. Can't say AngelList has done anything useful for me. – Inge Henriksen Jan 30 '12 at 9:20
As you get some more traction with your startup, add new team members, release your product and have some success stories to share, more people will start following. It seems that very young companies get lost at first on AngelList, but find their way as they grow up. – Dmitry Grinberg Feb 15 '12 at 0:07
AngelList is great to catch other angels once you got a lead. But until you have some kind of social proof (someone else saying that you are great), nothing will move. When you think about it, it makes sense, even though it's extremely frustrating. – Alain Raynaud Mar 24 '12 at 2:42
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Look for them close to home. The majority of seed and angel investors invest in businesses that are geographically close to them.

Talking to people you know who are investors is a good way to get referred to seed funders. If you don't know anyone, Google and then use LinkedIn (or a similar networking site) to find out connections you have in common. It is often better to approach funders by being referred by someone they know (and trust preferably!)

Also, people you know in your industry are a good place to start. They will often invest in a project that they see can help their business.

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There are incubator hubs and european crowdfunding platforms that exist today. Believe www.symbid.com is one of them.

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I looked at the web site, but I'm afraid that it will be too much work managming all those investors. My company only has 20 stocks of 5% each, if someone invests only 100 USD I don't know what to do. – Inge Henriksen Jan 25 '12 at 12:53

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