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 for the 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.

A little celebration post!

We launched Causo 4 months ago with a simple thesis: get precise intelligence -> achieve big things when reaching out to strangers.
Since then, startups using Causo have raised over 20 million dollars in venture funding - all through cold outreach. I kinda forgot to post this - we've been busy building out our generalised deep research and outbound agentic architecture that lets you find any company, even in very niche ICPs, gather powerful intel, and reach the right people.
Extremely proud of our users. You don't need a massive SF based network to fundraise, you just need better knowledge (and having a kickass product doesn't hurt).
I have a couple of discount codes to give out as a celebration - comment Raccoon and I'll toss you 50% off the first month of Causo. Here's to a lot more monies raised and a lot more sales made; and killing spray and pray for good:)

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 PH folks,

It's been about a month since our PH launch and I still get asked for launch tips. That's cool, but our focus right now is on growing community and engagement. I've seen some founders say they struggled with a post-launch lull, so here is what worked and didn't work for us since launch:

Partnerships

We re doing the second Raccoon o clock session.

First one was mostly around fundraising, early founder problems, and general how do I not waste 6 months doing the wrong thing chaos.

This one will be more GTM focused.

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 everyone,

I m a maker getting ready for a smaller launch on Product Hunt (indie tool, no big audience, no paid push) and I d love to hear from people who ve already done something similar.

I ve gone through the forum guidelines and I m trying to keep this community focused rather than posting a promo or please upvote type of thread.

What I m curious about:

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:)

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.