For Founders

Run your raise like the operators do.

raise(fn) is the brain that remembers every investor, drafts every email, scores every fit, and tells you what to do next. You stay on the calls and the product. We handle the rest.

01 — Targeting

Investors who actually write your check.

Not an alphabetical list of every VC on the internet. The brain knows your sector, stage, check size, geography, and cap table — and surfaces investors whose thesis, deployment cadence, and history actually fit.

Including the angels and family offices nobody else surfaces, the firms that haven't posted in a year but are quietly writing checks, and the warm-intro candidates in our proprietary network.

Top matches — Series A B2B SaaS, $4M targetLive

First Round Capital

Sector + stage fit

Active in your ARR range — partner engaged

Vinnie Lauria · Golden Gate

Solo angel

SEA + thesis fit; fast mover

Bessemer Venture Partners

Portfolio gap

B2B payments thesis, no current portco overlap

Manny Medina (angel)

Operator empathy

Built Outreach; angel-checks in your range

02 — Memory

A brain that doesn't forget.

Every conversation, meeting note, commitment, and decision — captured automatically as you work. No CRM to fill in. No investor questions to re-read at midnight before the second meeting.

When you come back tomorrow, the brain knows where you left off. When you come back next month, it still knows.

Pipeline — Auto-tracked from chat4 open

Vinnie Lauria

Replied — wants intro deck

2h ago

First Round (Bill Trenchard)

Met Mon — second meeting requested

1d ago

Manny Medina

Soft committed $50K — needs SAFE

3d ago

Bessemer (Byron Deeter)

Passed — portfolio overlap

1w ago

03 — Briefs

Investor briefs in seconds, not Saturdays.

One-page tailored summaries for any investor — what they fund, what they pass on, why this could fit, and what to surface up front. Use them to prep meetings, draft cold outreach, or send to your advisors.

Works for investors the brain matched you with — and for anyone you already know. Drop in a name, get a brief.

Brief — Vinnie Lauria, Golden Gate VenturesTailored

What they fund

Solo angel checks of $25-100Kacross SEA B2B SaaS. Sweet spot is post-revenue seed, $500K-$2M rounds. Doesn't lead. Strong preference for technical founders.

Why this fits

Two of his last four publicly-announced checks were US-headquartered founders raising their A — pattern fits your geography + stage. Your MRR ($18K) and growth rate (22% MoM) land in his preferred traction band.

What to watch

He typically passes if there's no clear path to APAC expansion within 18 months. Worth surfacing your SEA partnership pipeline up front. Also passes on founders who can't articulate post-seed milestones in the first 10 minutes.

Recent moves

  • Nimble Edge — $75K, Mar 2026 (B2B AI ops, US/SG)
  • Kestrel Health — $50K, Feb 2026 (B2B SaaS, US/PH)
  • Tapestry Books — $40K, Jan 2026 (B2B SaaS, US)

Talking points

  • ·Lead with the 22% MoM growth — that's in his sweet spot.
  • ·Mention your existing Manila design-partner pipeline.
  • ·Don't pitch lead-investor status — he co-invests.

Everything else

The full brain, not a feature wedge.

Targeting, briefs, and memory are the headline acts. Every other part of running a raise is in the same brain.

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Deck extraction

Drop a PDF — sector, stage, MRR, team, raise size auto-populated.

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Investor research

GP-level detail — recent checks, sweet spots, what they pass on.

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Outreach drafting

Cold and warm intros, tailored per investor and round context.

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Meeting prep

Six-section briefing per meeting: angles, risks, hard questions, asks.

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Meeting debrief

Capture next steps, commitments, status changes — no notes lost.

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Term sheet analysis

Plain-English read of every clause, flagged for the founder-hostile ones.

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Narrative review

Where the pitch lands and where it leaks — before you go out wide.

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Signal reading

Is the investor moving fast or slow-rolling? Pattern read across replies.

The difference

Other tools point at investors. raise(fn) does the work.

Most VC databases

List of 50,000 VCs with no signal on who's active

Generic templates you rewrite anyway

Notes scattered across docs, your inbox, and your head

Re-explain your raise to every advisor

No memory of what worked last time

raise(fn)

Investors ranked by actual fit — sector, stage, check, geo

Briefs and outreach tailored to your specific raise

Pipeline captured automatically as you talk to the brain

Memory across sessions — pick up exactly where you left off

Gets sharper as more founders raise on raise(fn)

Ready to raise smarter?

Sign up free. Drop your deck or just describe your raise. The brain takes it from there.