Brain for Founders

You have AI for everything. Except your raise.

Your engineers have Copilot. Your designers have Figma AI. Your sales team has Gong. But the single most consequential thing you do as a founder — raising capital — you still do with a spreadsheet and gut feel.

The problem

You don't know who to pitch.

You build a spreadsheet from Google and Crunchbase. Half aren't deploying. The other half don't invest in your sector. You find out after you've burned the intro.

Investor Match — Series A FintechLive data

Ribbit Capital

Fast mover

Deployed 3x in fintech this quarter

First Round Capital

Partner engaged

Active in your ARR range

Bessemer Venture Partners

Moderate

Portfolio gap in payments

Index Ventures

Fast mover

New fund, actively deploying

Readiness — Series A B2B SaaSREADY — WITH FLAGS

ARR

$1.2Mmedian: $1.5M

MoM Growth

25%median: 15%

STRONG

Net Retention

115%median: 120%

Burn Multiple

1.8xmedian: 2.0x

STRONG

CAC Payback

14momedian: 10mo

FLAG

Bottom line: Your growth is exceptional but CAC payback is above benchmark. Lead with cohort analysis showing newer cohorts at 9-month payback. Wait 60 days to go out at ~$1.5M ARR with a proven curve.

The problem

You don't know if you're ready.

You go out too early, pitch your dream investors before the metrics are there, and they pass. You can't go back. Six months wasted because nobody told you the truth.

The problem

You're flying blind.

An investor responded fast, then went silent. Is that a pass? Are they in IC? Should you follow up or wait? You have no idea. Your advisor who raised 5 years ago guesses.

Signal Timeline — Sequoia CapitalProgressing

Day 1Cold email sent to partner

Day 1Partner responds in 2 hours

High interest — fast responses at Sequoia mean they've flagged it internally

Day 3Routed to sector lead

Good sign — sector routing means thesis alignment, not a polite pass

Day 8Silence

Normal — their IC process takes 7-12 days. This isn't ghosting, it's process.

Day 10→ Send brief follow-up

One new data point — a customer win or metric update. Don't chase.

Day 14Partner meeting requested

Confirmed: they're moving you through the funnel. Prep for deep diligence.

Pipeline — Your Raise5 active · 1 passed

Accel

Follow-up

Concerned about CAC payback — show cohort data

3d ago

Sequoia

Partner meeting

Sector lead engaged, prep deep diligence deck

1d ago

a16z

Passed

Too early for their fund size — revisit at Series B

12d ago

Ribbit Capital

First meeting

Strong thesis alignment, send product demo

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Index Ventures

Outreach

Warm intro through portfolio founder confirmed

5d ago

The problem

Your raise lives in 10 different tools.

Notes in Notion. Pipeline in a spreadsheet. Follow-ups in email. Meeting notes somewhere. You spend more time managing the process than actually raising. The brain remembers everything — just ask.

Fundraising used to be the one thing you couldn't automate.

Now it has intelligence behind it. Not a chatbot with opinions — a system connected to live data, calibrated on real outcomes, that gets smarter with every raise.

Your raise deserves better than a spreadsheet.

We're working closely with our first founders.

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