Angelsoft, the 2004-launched site which earlier focused on hooking up entrepreneurs with angel and early-stage investors, and lately incorporated VC firms in its model, has recently initiated a new investor filtering tool, which unfolds an interesting potential of bringing about greater transparency in the funding world.

The contrivance is essentially an 'investor search engine' - though sans a search box - which facilitates entrepreneurs' access to comprehensive profiles on more than
1,000 US angel investment groups and venture capital firms. In fact, the Angelsoft platform enables startups to "push" their business ideas to over 400 angel investment groups and 15,949 investors worldwide.

Angelsoft's profiles of the VC and angel firms - with links to the LinkedIn investors' profiles - include a brief peak at the fund, earlier investment, industry proficiency and the executives.

Additional information - like the number of monthly applications received by a firm, its average response taken time to entrepreneurs' funding applications, and additional past funding history - can be accessed using Angelsoft's VC and Angel dealflow management tools.

Endowing the startups to evaluate and finally zero in on the funding of the firm that best meets their requirements, Angelsoft - launched by Chairman of the New York Angels' David S. Rose and Ryan Janssen - the investor sorting tool gives startups a clear insight into the arena of the prospective investment firms.