Company context in one place
Bring documents, discussions, relationships, and external intelligence into one company profile.
The data layer for AI-native VC funds
Your fund’s collective knowledge, ready for AI.
Espial connects your CRM, documents, and conversations with external intelligence to build a living profile of every company in your pipeline and portfolio. One shared source of truth for your team, your tools, and your AI agents.
Connected to the tools you use. Available in Claude and through MCP and API.
Bring your fund’s information together.
From internal conversations to external company intelligence, connect the sources that shape your investment decisions.
Your CRMGoogle DriveEmailSlackWhatsAppPitchBookCrunchbaseNewsSocial networks
From scattered information to shared knowledge
Your fund knows more than any one system can show.
A founder conversation lives in email. A pitch deck sits in Drive. Deal status is in the CRM. A portfolio update arrives in Slack.
Before the next meeting, someone has to piece it all together. Espial connects that information around the company it belongs to—and keeps the picture current as new information arrives.
Knowledge that stays with the fund
Make past research and conversations useful across the team, beyond the person who first collected them.
A shared foundation for AI
Give your AI tools the fund-specific context they need to help with research, preparation, and monitoring.
How Espial works
Connect your sources. Build the picture. Put it to work.
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Connect your information
Bring together your internal systems and external data providers, from your CRM and shared folders to PitchBook, Crunchbase, news, and social activity.
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Build a living company profile
Espial organizes the information around each company, combining your fund’s knowledge with the latest external context.
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Use it wherever you work
Explore company profiles, monitor changes, ask questions in Claude, and keep connected work tools aligned through two-way updates.
Every company, in context
Open a company. Pick up the whole story.
See what the company does, who your team knows, what you have discussed, and what has changed. Espial brings your internal history and external intelligence into a profile that grows with your relationship.
Your relationship history
Previous meetings, conversations, and notes from across the fund.
The relevant materials
Pitch decks, investor updates, research, and shared documents.
The latest developments
Company news, funding announcements, and founder activity alongside your own updates.
ExampleCo
AI software for operations teams
PipelineSeed
OverviewRelationshipsDocumentsUpdates
Your fund’s context
The team met the founders after an introduction. The latest pitch deck and meeting notes are connected to this profile.
Founder meeting notes added
Internal knowledge · CRM
Latest pitch deck connected
Company materials · Google Drive
Product launch announced
External intelligence · Company news
Open company profile →
Pipeline and portfolio monitoring
Know what changed. Know why it matters to your fund.
Follow the companies you care about and receive alerts when relevant developments happen. Bring a new funding round, founder announcement, or portfolio update back to the context your team already has.
Stay close to your portfolio
Bring company updates and external developments into your next portfolio review.
Find a reason to reconnect
Spot changes at companies in your pipeline and revisit the last conversation before reaching out.
Follow founder activity
Keep up with what founders are sharing and how audiences are engaging with their work.
Pipeline update
ExampleCo announced a product launch.
Your team last discussed the company during an introductory meeting. Review the announcement alongside your meeting notes and the latest deck.
View company context →
Built for AI-native work
Ask your AI. Bring your fund’s context.
Use Espial with Claude and other compatible AI tools to work with the knowledge your fund has already collected. Research a company, prepare for a meeting, or explore changes across your portfolio without assembling the context by hand.
- “What has changed at this company since our last meeting?”
- “Summarize our relationship with the founders.”
- “Which companies in our pipeline recently announced funding?”
- “Prepare a brief for our next portfolio review.”
Connect through MCP, the standard for connecting AI tools to data, or build your own workflows with the Espial API.
Explore AI accessCompany context in your AI workflow
You
What has changed at ExampleCo since our last meeting?
Claude · via Espial
Since the introductory meeting, ExampleCo has shared a new pitch deck and announced a product launch. Your earlier notes focused on the launch timeline, so the announcement is a useful starting point for the next conversation.
Meeting notesLatest deckCompany announcement
Shared knowledge. Deliberate access.
Your fund’s information is sensitive. Flexible roles and access rights help you control how company knowledge is shared across your team and connected workflows.
Security & accessA few things you might be wondering.
What is Espial?
Espial is a connected data layer for VC funds. It brings internal information and external intelligence together around each company, creating a shared source of truth for your team and AI tools.
How does Espial work with our CRM?
Your CRM remains part of your workflow. Espial connects it with documents, conversations, and external data to build a broader company profile. Two-way updates keep connected work systems aligned.
Which sources can we connect?
Espial brings together your CRM, Google Drive, email, Slack, and WhatsApp with external intelligence from PitchBook, Crunchbase, news, and social networks. In a demo, we can walk through the connections relevant to your fund.
Can we use Espial with Claude?
Yes. Espial makes company context available to Claude and other compatible AI tools through MCP. API access also lets your team build custom applications and workflows.
Is Espial for pipeline or portfolio companies?
Both. Use Espial to follow companies before an investment, preserve context during diligence, and keep up with developments across your portfolio.
Can we control access to information?
Espial supports flexible roles and access rights. Talk to us about your fund’s information boundaries and the access requirements for your team and AI workflows.
Put your fund’s knowledge to work.
Bring your sources together. Build a shared view of every company. Give your team and AI tools the context to move forward.