Early Stage Program
Start strong with a solid network.
Eligible startups get a 70% first-year discount on our SaaS platform, and special pricing for our data solutions.
Raised up to $2M or under $1M ARR
Founded less than 2 years ago at time of joining
Backed by a Swarm partner (optional)
New to The Swarm? Get an overview of the platform or watch a demo.
We partner with top-tier investors, accelerators, and incubators.
Ready to get started? Select the organization you're affiliated to. If you don’t see your investor, or if you’re an investor and would like to join this program, please email partners@theswarm.com.
Friendly words from inspiring leaders.
Danny Zuckerman
Co-Founder
at
3Box
"I wish you had built and scaled this years ago."
Joao Batalha
Founder
at
Amplemarket
"Congrats on all you’ve built. I really like the UI."
Pierce Gaynor
Head of Product
at
Regology
"Super easy onboarding and the platform has been really intuitive."
Stephen Rossi
Chief Business Officer
at
Solv
"Much MUCH better interface than LinkedIn or Sales Navigator!"
Jake Corley
Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer
at
Digital Wildcatters
"I saw this product and a lightbulb went off! I was like that's amazing, I'm excited to get access to it."
David Stepania
Founder
at
ThirstySprout
"I want to have on my radar any tool that's enabling warm vs. cold connections, and that's what you guys are doing."
Justin Kang
Co-Founder & General Partner
at
Visible Hands
"It's always so manual to create, send, customize a list of investors we know. I'd be super helpful for our entrepreneurs to see the whole list."
Recruiting Leader
at
Okta
“What you’re building is important: This is LinkedIn+. It allows for massive noise reduction from social networks.”
Dennis Widehammer
CMO
at
Spintr
We’ve already built five pipelines and identified hundreds of warm leads to jumpstart our product launch.
Selin Ataman
Talent Manager
at
500
“We introduce a lot of our founders to warm connections who could be sales entry points for them.”
Mark Taylor
SaaS Founder
at
Growthly
"The Swarm for LinkedIn is a game-changer for networking. It helps me find warm intro paths to key decision-makers in seconds."
Doug Shultz
Strategic Programs & Accounts
at
Cofactr
"This extension makes my extended network searchable, at my fingertips, and useful in seconds. Love it!"
Alex Modon
Co-Founder
at
Unlimited Industries
"Love it 🔥 Only way I've ever been able to see the collective network of my team on LinkedIn, and super simple to use. Nice job y'all"
Brandon Passley
Co-Founder
at
Outworks
"This extension comes handy to find business emails right on a LinkedIn profile — the ability to see intro paths is also excellent. It’s like having a secret weapon for lead generation. Saved me countless hours."
Jared Gibson
Co-Founder
at
Outworks
"We use this extension to find intro paths to leads on LinkedIn on the fly. It's excellent to complement The Swarm platform or as a standalone tool."
Gabriel Koslover
Growth Lead, US
at
uMed
"We landed a $300k deal with a leading pharmaceutical company from a warm intro, which we would have never got without The Swarm."
Chris Messina
Inventor of the hashtag, #1 Product Hunter
at
Investor
"Relationships as a service... This is the future."
Adam Coccari
Managing Director
at
HubSpot Ventures
"In the age of AI, the winning go-to-market motions will be built on authentic relationships."
Kevin Mahaffey
Co-Founder
at
Lookout
"Teams should always tap the network of their stakeholders. The Swarm makes it easy to map them and find warm intros.”
Eric Tarczynski
Managing Partner
at
Contrary
"We’re using The Swarm as the single source of truth for people relationships."
Doug Shultz
CEO
at
Factor
"I invited our team and key investors to our account. Now we can instantly search through our combined +80k connections and find high-quality, responsive leads. Excited to dig into this relationship goldmine for sales, recruiting, fundraising, and partnerships."
Arjun Dev Arora
Managing Partner
at
Format One
"You've automated what I have been doing manually for over a decade on LinkedIn.”
Michael Amar
Chief of Staff to the COO
at
Diagram
“The Swarm is the obvious tool to mine our 100k+ network and work efficiently together."
Jonatan Dykert
Co-founder & Product
at
Ripe
"Extremely powerful app with a very sharp and responsive team!"
William Scott
Founder
at
Elisi
"Swarm feels like a breath of fresh air: Actionable relationship intelligence that plugs into your existing workflows."
Drew Moxon
Head of Platform and Product
at
Fifty Years
"Wow, that's phenomenal [reacting to “work overlaps” feature]. It's all about this relationship data."
Hank Holiday
Meta Founder & Managing Partner
at
Quorum1
"Insanely useful: Find a company you want to collaborate with and instantly see a list of contacts across your whole team."
Gianmaria Caltagirone
Growth & Digital Strategist
at
Taylora
"Leveraging extended company networks is a powerful (and refreshingly human) approach to business growth and deal-making."
Vivek Sodera
Co-Founder
at
Superhuman
"I've waited 15 years for a platform like The Swarm. In the war for talent, I almost don't want other companies to find out!"
Chris Dorsey
Co-Founder & CEO
at
Mymo
"I believe in the power of networks and in what you guys are building!"
Ekin Ataman
Talent Manager
at
500 Emerging Europe
"Amazing if we get all our founders here, get access to their networks, and ask introductions from them."
Ian Yamey
Founder
at
Retirable
"We can create a shortlist of warm, qualified profiles in minutes. This is the most efficient way to run recruiting and sales prospecting, period!"
Anders Sundquist
Founder & CEO
at
Flawless Recruit
“We can connect the networks of an entire leadership team, so they feed off each other and extend the company reach. Wow!”
Blake Williams
CEO
at
Demandi
"The Swarm is an awesome way to help anyone trying to grow, turn their social capital into pipeline and build relationships methodically."
Jason A. Scott
Partner
at
ANIM Fund
"The Swarm tackles the challenge of sales prospecting and talent sourcing in a more manageable, scalable, and capital efficient way."
Jeff Leathers
CEO
at
Tap
"Super valuable! We can tap into warm intros instead of cold reach outs. Imagining the thousands of possibilities as we grow."
Chris Frantz
Founder
at
Loops
"Will share with YC community, we all have the same problem."
Brendan Short
Co-Founder
at
Groundswell
"The Swarm allows me to find intro paths into target accounts, as well as net new warm leads from my investors and advisors. More elegant and effective than anything else we’ve tried!"
Melanie Tantingco
VP, People
at
Cube
"The Swarm really uncovers the hidden gems you probably weren’t thinking about."
Alex van Klaveren
Co-Founder & CEO
at
Kandidate
“It's highly likely you or one of your team have already met the person you should be hiring. Now there is a world-class tool to look through your own company network.”
Sarah Worthington
Head of Growth EMEA
at
PreviewMe
"Epic to have the flexibility to get in and use this across our team!"
