Hey PH, we've 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 of 6.5%

New stuff:
-Ivan and I have drank SO much coffee, deepened our eyebag colour significantly, and shipped a bunch of stuff:
-one-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 for Sales in early access: tell Causo who you need to reach, Causo finds people and writes to them. Similar no nonsense AI raccoon stack, but now for b2b sales instead of VCs.
If that sounds interesting (who doesn't need more leads) drop us a shout, we're onboarding first companies selectively :)
Back soon with another raccoon update!

Hey 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 for GTM is a build out from our internal tool. If you've used any AI GTM or sales tools before I'd genuinely love to hear what worked, what didn't, what would you wish for.
Happy to reward folks with early access discounts when we onboard you:)

Folks, thank you so much for your support today - we're at number 5, ahead of huge companies like Notion and Meta :oo never expected this!
Every bit of support from you will count to hold the spot and aim higher. Thank you infinitely for your upvotes and comments today!
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Hey guys,

Another free tool from our team is out on Causo Hub the Pitch Deck Roaster.

Drop a PDF, get back a slide-by-slide roast (0 100 score + good/warn/bad verdict for each slide) and the top three things to fix before your next partner meeting. Takes about 60 seconds.

What it grades against: problem clarity, market framing, team story, traction evidence, ask specificity, business model, and competition framing.

Confession to start: my co-founder and I made up a startup last month and pitched it to 100 venture capitalists. Realistic space, realistic team, realistic deck. We're not naming it because the point was the experiment, not the pitch. And before anyone panics, we politely declined to move forward with everyone, because, well, the company doesn't exist. Sorry for the noise to any VCs who might recognise themselves, hope we didn't offend anybody, and always happy to chat properly. The deck was decent though, in our humble opinion.

Why we did this: we tried to raise about a year ago for a different project, mostly cold because our network was thin. It was brutal. 60+ hours writing emails, second guessing every line, watching most of them go nowhere. We always wondered whether we just sucked at it, or whether the numbers really are that hard for everyone. We haven't seen many founders publicly share their actual funnel from cold VC outreach, so we figured we'd run it again properly and find out.

Same shape both times. 100 funds, sequence of 4 emails each (first email plus 3 follow ups), spread over roughly a month.

Our previous attempt, about a year ago:

Hey, I'm Dawid - one of the cofounders of Causo. I've built our design system and sometimes people ask: what's the reason we plastered raccoons all over our image? Even when people don't actually ask - the answers are:
1) Raccoons are cool
2) Outreach feels a bit like scavenging. You go in a million directions, hope to find some scraps, and then hunt for a bigger prize when you've found a trail of responses
3) Consequently, agents that do outreach for you feel, to me, like an army of highly professional, fully automated raccoons
I've also worked in a variety of companies in my life. Some of them were funded by me (both bootstrapped and VC backed), some of them were big corporates, some even NGOs.
I don't remember ever wishing my workplace was 'more serious', and after a couple of ventures I feel like I have the confidence to say: work should be fun. So raccoons! We hope Causo scavenges some good VC replies for you. Can't wait to hear your feedback.

Hey Hunters

Thursday we're launching Causo, short version of why:

Founders should be building product and talking to customers. Instead, they spend half their time on fundraising and GTM busywork scraping investor lists, hacking together CRMs, writing the same cold email 200 times.

Causo starts where it hurts most (fundraising outreach finding the right VCs, researching them, writing in your voice, running the campaign). The long game is the full GTM + fundraising stack a startup actually needs, so founders can get back to the work only they can do.