For Investors
raise(fn) does the deep thesis-matching work for you. The founders we surface fit the criteria you actually invest in — sector, stage, check size, geography, and the edge cases most platforms miss.
01 — Capture
We don't ask founders to fill in 47 fields they'll abandon halfway through. The brain captures everything — sector intent, MRR, growth rate, team shape, burn, ICP, current investors, stage edge cases — by working alongside them on the raise.
The result: founder profiles deep enough to match on real criteria, not keyword soup.
Sector intent · Deck + clarifying chat
AI bookkeeping for SMB CPAs
MRR / growth · Auto-extracted from deck
$18K · 22% MoM
Burn / runway · Founder profile
$45K/mo · 14 months
Cofounder split · Discovery chat
60 / 40, technical lead
Customer profile · ICP definition
20-50 person CPA firms, US
Current investors · Pipeline capture
$200K from 4 angels
Stage edge case · Founder preference
Sector-agnostic angels welcome
02 — Matching
The matching engine handles the cases other platforms break on: sector-agnostic firms, participation checks below the round size, regional fit beyond "US/EU/Asia", stage edge cases like sector-agnostic angels for vertical SaaS founders.
When a founder hits your thesis, we tell you. Tight matches only — no scattershot.
OpenBooks AI
B2B SaaS · Seed · Raising $2.5M · San Diego
MRR
$18K
Growth
22% MoM
Team
2 cofounders · 4 FTE
Stage
Post-revenue seed
Why this matches you
Sector fit: B2B SaaS + AI. Stage fit: post-revenue seed, $2.5M check range. Geo fit: US-based. Lead profile: open to participation; no committee required.
03 — Warm intros
When a founder hits your thesis, the raise(fn) Team writes the intro personally — context up front, the brief attached, and a clear ask. You reply when interested. That's it.
You control the volume. We control the quality. No founder in our network ever reaches out cold. Your inbox stays clean and the people who do reach you arrive pre-qualified.
Hi —
OpenBooks AI hits your thesis cleanly. B2B SaaS for SMB CPAs, $18K MRR, 22% MoM growth, raising a $2.5M seed, San Diego based. Two technical cofounders, ex-Big4 audit.
They're open to participation checks alongside their lead. I pulled together a short brief on them for you: raisefn.com/brief/...
If interested, reply and I'll drop you both in the same thread.
— Justin
04 — Quality control
Every founder raising in your sectors gets profiled by the brain. Most don't pass the thesis-matching engine. The ones who do go through a quality review by raise(fn) Team — traction quality, founder coachability, deal sanity.
What lands in your inbox is what survived. Typically a few founders a week, not a deluge.
The funnel narrows on purpose. You see the three founders worth your time — not 126.
Other platforms make founders push at investors. We make founders fit before anyone reaches out.
Inbound today
•1,200 cold emails a quarter, most missing thesis
•Founder profiles padded with marketing fluff
•Generic platforms surfacing every deal to every fund
•No way to filter by stage edge cases
•You spend hours qualifying out, minutes qualifying in
raise(fn)
•Founder profiles built by the brain — deep, structured, honest
•Thesis-matched alerts only when fit is tight
•Stage edge cases handled (sector-agnostic, participation, regional)
•Warm intros brokered by the raise(fn) Team — no cold inbound
•Your inbox stays clean; you spend time on founders who fit
Set up your investor profile in 2 minutes. Tell the brain your thesis. We'll surface the founders who fit.
No subscription, no setup fee. We coordinate warm intros to founders that match your stated thesis.