Causo for Fundraising - Pitch the right VCs, skip the grind
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90% of startups die from no money, not bad products. Causo's AI agents find matching investors and email them for you while you ship.
Upload your deck or website, get matched with specific partners at relevant VC funds, send your pitch. All on autopilot.
Let our raccoons do the work while you ship product and talk to customers.
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FlowMarket
Congrats on launch! Now this one is interesting and one of few projects I would personally you. I understand the startup side of the project but what about investor side. Is it cold outreach from their point of view or they also have Causo account and are reviewing matches directly on the platform?
Causo
@davitausberlin Appreciate you! For now, this is cold outreach - an investor side platform is definitely a cool idea, but probably one we could think at much larger scale, as the product would only be interesting when there's a large enough critical mass of VCs onboarded. Right now, we're aiming to help smaller teams get their checks :)
FlowMarket
@dawid_baranowski got it. its email, linkedin or what kind of outreach? Do you have good case studies, I haven't checked website yet. Put them all there, if this system works, you won't have shortage of startup customers
Causo
@davitausberlin For now, outreach is via email - from your email to vc partners' verified email addresses. So far our customers are seeing reply rates of ±5% and every customer has gotten at least one reply - of course this is always going to be dependent on what is the user's company. The best email in the world can't help if the VC doesn't like the product for whatever reason, but we're doing our best to get companies in front of VCs :)
Case studies coming soon on website!
FlowMarket
@dawid_baranowski I have created an account and will probably test with small package. good stuff, manual research is pain in the *** let alone the outreach
Spellar AI
This is the kind of AI automation founders actually need. Researching VCs manually is exhausting 😅 Congrats on the launch!
Causo
@j_che Thanks a lot! I know the pain firsthand. Glad it resonated :)
Causo
@j_che thank you for the kind words! Appreciate it!
This looks really interesting. I've spent hours on VC research in the past. Curious if you're adding linkedin outreach soon? That's where I've had a lot of success in the past, it seems you're email only for now?
Causo
@rickybobby Hi Richard, thanks a lot! Indeed for now we're doing email cold outreach - Linkedin is a little bit more complex when managed with agents as there are some dependencies with inmails, adding connections, and your account limits - so one needs to be careful to execute it correctly. It's definitely a roadmap item. In the meantime you can find linkedin details of the VCs in our database in the product :)
Causo
@rickybobby Hey Richard! Thank you very much!
Definitely, working on it already but there are a lot of obstacles when trying to work with linkedin :/
this hits home. fundraising outreach is basically the same problem as b2b outreach -- matching the right person, right message, right timing. curious how you handle personalization at scale without sounding generic
Causo
@nossa_iyamu Appreciate you! About emails: it's basically context-dependent. We gather tens of datapoints as well as qualitative info about every VC team member, and asks users to upload their deck and website, as well as provide details about their raise - any interesting highlights, traction, etc. The more context our agents have, the richer and more distinct emails they can write :)
Causo
@nossa_iyamu thank you very much!
Pitch the right VCs, skip the grind reads as one of the cleaner positioning lines I've seen this week. Ran a quick Lastest baseline on the homepage while looking — turned up a small UX finding (Start Finding Investors anchors to a #start id that doesnot exist on the page, so the click goes nowhere):
https://app.lastest.cloud/r/ESO6NqR2Nzn2jQJMNJGrow
Causo
@viktor_fasi Hey Viktor, thanks a lot - and thanks for flagging this through! I've not been able to replicate this error so far - and we've seen a surge of signups today, so it seems the CTA button might be working for most - but I'm digging a bit deeper and will report back here. Thanks again for your kind words :)
@dawid_baranowski wow, that was thorough :) Good job on the launch
Causo
@viktor_fasi Many thanks!!
Causo
@viktor_fasi Investigated this further - your tool picked up a dead link as the click is normally intercepted by a JS handler to route users to /auth; but a crawler-like tool will only read the url preview path. Slight oversight on our end to leave the stale reference in url - will clean up, but the good news is users will not get stuck. Thanks for looking into it, appreciate you:)
I've always been intimidated by fundraising and VCs - in a rewarding way - and I cannot wait to try Causo. What actually compounds inside Causo over time though? Is it the investor graph, the intelligence in matching, or the outreach agents themselves?
Causo
@syonda Hey Syon, hope we make VC outreach a little easier for you:) The answer is D - all of the above 😄 we continuously add and enrich new investors, and our agents learn over time to match better and write more successful emails. Happy raising!