... Shameless self-promo, but we just shipped a massive update to Causo and I am genuinely proud of this one. We spent the last few months rebuilding our VC dataset from the ground up. We now cover: 1,000+ venture funds 17,000+ investors and investment professionals Fund size, cheque size, stages, sectors and geographies Investment theses, portfolios, recent investments and latest fundraises Individual investor backgrounds, focus areas, career histories and past investments Verified emails where available Sources ... ... underlying research Non-investment staff separated from the people who actually make investment decisions But the goal was never to build another giant directory or give founders a CSV and wish them luck. You add your company, and Causo

... everyone, We just opened up Causo.ai for sales lead gen. We originally built Causo

... more interesting things we have learned while building Causo is that people ask for automation, but what they really want is productivity. Those sound like the same thing but actually aren't. Ask someone what they want from an AI sales tool and the answer is usually: Just find the leads, write the emails and run the outreach for me. But the moment the tool actually tries to do that, the questions start: where did this company come from ... ... they might care right now, writing something that does not look like it came from a mail-merge factory. Yet most AI SDRs focus on sending more emails with fewer humans involved. We took the opposite approach with Causo

... founders to sign up for Causo after launch. Nice number. Felt good for about 12 seconds. Then we looked at the funnel properly and got humbled pretty fast. 253 created a company profile. 92 completed onboarding. 90 got matched with investors. 38 actually launched outreach. 18 became paying customers. So yeah, top of funnel looked pretty decent. But the real lesson was not how do we get people to sign up? It was: how do we get founders to trust ... ... product enough to actually press send on fundraising emails? That is a much harder problem. For context, Causo

... founders say they struggled with a post-launch lull, so here is what worked and didn't work for us since launch: Partnerships we partnered up with Techstars Startup Weekend Valencia to offer winners and participants discounts / freebies on Causo partnering / sponsoring events by larger players is ofc almost always a great way to grow but with caveats: this will often only be accessible through already in-network connections, and should be balanced, so you don't spend all your ... ... about launching a Discord server, similarly for founders to support one another with fundraising and sales. Wondering if that's interesting? Community requested features we shipped a bunch of things that was directly requested by our community: a new Causo

... been blown away by the response to our launch :) thought to share a quick update on what's happened since: User success: -we had a huge user spike: 250+ new companies are using Causo for fundraising since our PH launch -we're seeing that many people join early, look around the investors database, then convert once they're ready to actively raise -we saw users send out 400+ investor emails and get 26 replies; avg reply rate ... ... click connect for Microsoft inboxes -50+ new free resources for sales and GTM over at https://hub.causo.ai/ -bunch of UI fixes - thanks so much for everyone who had feedback, it was all so helpful! -we're rolling out Causo

... folks, we're currently rolling out Causo but for GTM: agents that understand your business, find companies you want to reach, get intel on the right people and write to them. Yes there are many tools like this: vibe gtm, AI growth engineering, AI SDR, etc. I tried so many and my main gripes were: -often it's oops just Apollo again -requires 5 different tools stitched together to actually work -dead leads, false positives, bad intel Causo