Founders now get their answer from Google and AI assistants before they reach a website. Here is what that changes for an investor, and what an address of its own does about it.
68%
Of Google searches in the US now end without a click
In the first four months of 2026, two searches in three ended on the results page, up from about 60% in 2024. The answer is read where it appears, and the investor's own page is never opened.
US Google searches
Ended without a click, 202668%
Ended without a click, 202460%
Clicked through, 202632%
SparkToro, zero-click study on Similarweb clickstream data (US, Jan.–Apr. 2026)
8%
Of searches click a result once AI answers: being cited is now the key
Without an AI summary, 15% of visits click a search result; with one, 8%. The answer is what reaches people, so what counts for an investor is to be the source that answer names.
Visits that clicked a search result
No AI summary on the page15%
With an AI summary8%
Pew Research Center: 68,879 Google searches by 900 US adults (April 2025)
The figures are rounded and attributed to their publishers. Both measure Google search in the US.
Built to be found by AI
More and more founders ask an AI assistant for the best investor rather than searching. A hub under .best is built for that question.
54%
Found where AI looks for the best
Ask an AI assistant for the best investor for a seed round and it leans on pages built around “best”: in Meltwater’s study of 9.5 million AI citations, “Best X” listicles appeared in 54% of the most-cited LinkedIn content. A hub at investors.best/yourname puts “best” in the investor’s own address, and gives assistants one clear page to cite for it.
Meltwater × LinkedIn Ads, LinkedIn AI visibility study (2026): share of top-cited LinkedIn content by format. No ranking or citation is promised.
Most cited content types
“Best X” listicles54%
Side-by-side comparisons50%
“How to choose” guides33%
Educational explainers17%
Thought leadership + data8%
01
“Best” is already in the address
People ask an assistant for the best investor for a seed round. On a .best hub, the word in their question is already in the investor's own address: investors.best/yourname.
02
One page an assistant can read
What the investor is, what it offers and where to find it — on one page, in plain text, at one address, rather than scattered across profiles an assistant has to piece together.
03
One name everywhere
Every profile can point back to the same .best address, so the investor reads as one name rather than a handful of handles that may or may not be the same investor.
04
The source is the investor itself
When an assistant cites the hub, it cites the investor's own page — not a database, a directory or a lookalike account speaking for it.
Nothing here promises a ranking or a citation: assistants choose their own sources. A .best hub gives them a clear one.
One address. Everything the firm is.
investors.best/yourname is an address the firm holds, a hub it opens, and a follow that is held against it.
Your name. At the Best address.
investors.best/yourname for free, and on Pro yourname.investors.best — the firm's own address, easy to say on stage and easy to find.
castelmare.investors.best
Address ofCastelmare Ventures
PlanPro
investors.Best brandingRemoved
All your links in one place
The thesis, the portfolio, the pitch route and the LP updates on one page, at one address on every deck and signature.
Castelmare Venturesinvestors.best/castelmare
Book a pitch
The newsletter
Super Follow: Grow your founders
Founders and LPs follow the firm at its address, not a network's — so office hours and news reach them from the firm itself.
Super Follow
12,846+24%
Held atinvestors.best/castelmare
Moves with the nameYes
Click analytics
See what founders press — thesis, portfolio, pitch — counted at the firm's own address rather than inferred from a platform's dashboard.
Link clicks, this month
48,209+18%
Measured atyour own address
Send messages to Super Followers
Office hours, a new fund, a portfolio milestone: written once, and it lands with every Super Follower.
Message to Super Followers
Office hours are open — book 20 minutes with a partner this Friday.
Delivered12,846 of 12,846
Lands intheir super box
Private links for Super Followers
Partner office hours, the LP letter, the founder playbook: rows that open for the people who followed the firm, and stay shut for everyone else.
On the investor hub
The portfolio
Book a pitch
Partner office hoursSuper Followers
Shut, not hidden
One address, one page, one following — and all three of them the firm’s. How it works walks through building it, Super Follow is the button the third card is about, and pricing is what each plan costs. About .best covers the domain the paid plans come with.
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