Taking a look, https://stellaconnect.com/ (where the email came from) is a company that other firms use to collect feedback for customer service. So it might have actually been legitimate. Source: almost 2 years ago

Https://bigpicture.io/ I was trying to build a B2B sales/marketing app and all the ML stuff we wanted to do required business data, which was too expensive for us. Long story, but after a cofounder blow up, a failed acquisition, then covid being the final straw, I started poking around during lockdown on how to get business data at scale. I ended up building an API to look up any business by domain/name, which has... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I'm not sure if this is the best thread, but I'm potentially looking for a partner. I'm the founder of https://bigpicture.io/. The primary product is company data and IP data as a service via API. I'm debating what to do with the company. I've only raised a small angel round, and the company is profitable. A competitor reached out to me about an acquisition a couple weeks ago, so I'm debating that vs raising money... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago