Why choose Getro over the Swarm?

Getro and The Swarm are both tools designed to help organizations manage their professional networks, but they take fundamentally different approaches.

Getro is built for venture capital firms, accelerators, and economic development organizations that want to activate warm, opt-in relationships across their network. It includes a branded job board, warm intro workflows, shareable contact lists, and custom tagging—making it ideal for network management across teams.

The Swarm, by contrast, focuses on aggregating relationship data from email, LinkedIn, and CRM tools. While this creates a large network map, it can introduce noise from low-quality or outdated contacts and lacks features like a job board, semantic search, or shareable contact views.

For Venture platform and talent teams looking for actionable introductions, easy contact management, and a public-facing job board, Getro offers a friendlier UI, with more list sharing capabilities.

Yes. The Swarm uses email integrations and work history to automatically infer professional relationships and build your network. While this can rapidly grow the size of your contact graph, it often results in low-accuracy, low-proximity connections—people you emailed once or haven’t engaged with in years.

This inbox scraping can introduce significant noise into your database and requires manual cleanup to maintain relevance.

In contrast, Getro does not scrape your inbox. It relies on verified, opt-in data from your portfolio, partners, or team, ensuring that your network management efforts are built on trust and accuracy, not guesswork.

Absolutely. Getro is designed for non-technical users, including platform leaders, talent partners, and community managers who want to activate their networks without needing a data science or engineering background.

Getro’s intuitive interface makes it easy to:
- Create and manage warm intros
- Build and share polished contact lists
- Tag and filter contacts for specific hiring or deal-flow needs

Unlike The Swarm, which is primarily a backend data API with limited UI for cross-team use, Getro empowers everyone in your organization to participate in network management—not just your ops or analytics lead.

Only Getro offers a branded, public-facing job board and shareable contact directories that make it easy to highlight talent, make warm introductions, and drive hiring across your network.

Getro’s job boards:
- Automatically pull jobs from your network’s companies
- Update in real-time with no manual upkeep
- Can be embedded into your organization’s website

You can also share curated contact lists externally in a clean, professional format with hiring managers, partners, or portfolio companies. The Swarm does not offer a job board or public contact sharing features, making it less suited for talent engagement, network activation, or external collaboration.

Yes. Getro’s packages include access to the API, it can also be purchased as a standalone solution.

Yes. Getro includes semantic search, custom tagging, and advanced filters to help you manage your network with precision.

You can:
- Search by name, role, company, or keyword (e.g., "AI founder in Europe")
- Tag contacts by stage, function, or intro-readiness
- Build pipelines and filtered views to support hiring or deal-flow initiatives

These features make Getro a powerful tool for network relationship management, especially for teams that need to move quickly and collaborate across functions. In comparison, The Swarm lacks semantic search and does not offer contact tagging or custom filters, making it harder to scale or organize your network over time.