Two people from the same college, one raising and one writing cheques, usually never find each other — the connection exists on paper and nowhere else. This network makes it addressable. It reads your verified alumni record together with your investor or founder profile and shows the overlap, so a founder can see who from their own institute actually invests, and an investor can see who from theirs is building.
Shared-institute connections exist but are unaddressable. This makes them searchable.
A shared college is a real starting point, and both sides can see it before the first message.
Investor profiles carry a firm, a sub-type and a stated thesis rather than a self-declared label.
A founder with a Startup Passport appears with their sector, stage and whether they are raising.
Through Campus Connect: your institute, course, department and batch year, reviewed by a person.
Founders keep a Startup Passport. Investors keep an investor profile.
The network reads the two together — there is no third profile to fill in and no application to submit.
Filter to your institute, read the thesis or the pitch, and start a conversation in Koovira chat.
Any Koovira member can open the network. Appearing in it requires a verified alumni role plus an active investor profile or Startup Passport.
To read this page, no. To open the directory, yes — it lists real people with their institute, batch year and, for founders, what they are raising, so it is kept behind a login rather than published openly.
Yes. No listing fee, no introduction fee, no success fee, no paid tier.
You are not listed by applying. Verify your alumni role through Campus Connect and keep an active investor profile or Startup Passport — the network reads the two together and includes you automatically.
Deactivate the investor or founder profile that puts you there. The network only shows active profiles.
No, and this matters. Koovira does not move money, hold funds, take a fee or broker deals. It shows you who exists and lets you start a conversation. Everything after that happens between you and them.
No. Verification and match signals are informational. Nothing here is advice, a recommendation, or an offer or solicitation of any kind.
That a founder has recorded an active raise on their own profile, along with the amount. It reflects what they entered, and Koovira does not verify or endorse the round itself.
Yes. The institute filter narrows the whole network to one institute.
