The five stages of raising, fully supported.
Raise HQ organizes your entire fundraising process around the real stages investors go through. Each stage is a job to be done. We have built the tools to do it.
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Find the investors who actually back companies like yours.
Your investor landscape is unique. It is defined by your stage, sector, geography, and the specific dynamics of this round. Most founders guess at it. Raise HQ learns it from you and makes it visible.
When you start a raise, you face an impossible question: who should you approach first? Your investor list is probably fragmented — some names in a spreadsheet, some from networking, some from friends of friends. You have no systematic way to rank them.
Capabilities
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Investor database built for investors
Not a generic contact list. Firms, partners, angels, syndicates, family offices — all with proper relationships. Track firm size, stage focus, geography, sector specialization, and decision-making structure.
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AI-scored fit
Every investor gets a 1–10 fit score against your company and round. The score reflects stage match, sector focus, cheque size, and other factors. A written rationale explains why.
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Priority-ranked tiers
Investors sorted into T1 (highest fit), T2, and T3. Tier drives your outreach strategy and determines trust mode. Know who to approach first.
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Import or build manually
Upload a CSV of investors you have researched, or add them one by one. Raise HQ learns from both your inputs and the data you provide.
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Enrichment and lookup
Find verified email addresses for investor contacts. Hit rates vary by investor type — angels are harder than funds — but you get exact data when a match is found.
Example from this stage
Growth Ventures
Sarah Chen
Why this fit
Series A lead. Strong operator network. Focuses on founder-led teams.
Status
Active conversation
Next action
Review data room
Real-world use cases
- →You have got a list of 200 investors from Crunchbase. Upload it. Raise HQ scores every one against your profile in minutes.
- →You know 10 investors you want to target. Add them manually, one at a time. Raise HQ learns your thesis as you go.
- →You find an investor's Twitter handle but no email. Use enrichment to find their verified address — no guessing.
Warm Intros
Ask for an introduction instead of sending cold.
The strongest route to an investor is usually through someone you already know. Raise HQ surfaces those routes, so you know who to ask before you write a single cold email.
Most founders know a warm intro beats a cold email, but finding the path is guesswork. The connection is buried in someone else's network, and you don't know who knows whom, or how well. Raise HQ makes those paths visible.
Capabilities
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Warm intro mapping
Who in your network knows this investor? How strong is that connection? What has been asked of them? Raise HQ surfaces warm intro paths so you can ask for an introduction instead of sending cold.
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Prioritised intro paths
Intro paths sit alongside each investor's fit score and tier, so you spend your asks on the investors that matter most.
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Drafted intro requests
Ask your connector for the introduction with a short note written from your company context, ready for them to forward.
Example from this stage
Growth Ventures
Sarah Chen
Why this fit
Series A lead. Strong operator network. Focuses on founder-led teams.
Status
Active conversation
Next action
Review data room
Real-world use cases
- →An investor you want to reach is connected to a friend of a friend. Warm intro mapping shows the connection. You ask your friend for an introduction instead of going cold.
- →You have 30 T1 investors and a handful of well-connected advisors. See which advisor can reach which investor, and ask each one for the intros that count.
Data Room
Share your materials securely and see who is reading them.
Your deck, financial model and documents in one secure data room, with access controlled investor by investor.
Once an investor is interested, they want to see more. Emailing attachments means losing control of who has what, and never knowing whether anyone opened them. A data room keeps your materials in one place and tells you where the real interest is.
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Per-investor access control
Share documents with exactly the investors you choose. Each investor sees only what you have given them access to.
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View tracking
Know which investor read your financial model, when, and how many times.
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Instant revocation
Revoke access instantly if a deal falls through.
Example from this stage
Growth Ventures
Sarah Chen
Why this fit
Series A lead. Strong operator network. Focuses on founder-led teams.
Status
Active conversation
Next action
Review data room
Real-world use cases
- →You want to share your financial model with five interested investors. Upload to data room. Raise HQ tracks who views it, when, and how often.
- →A conversation goes quiet after a partner meeting. You revoke their access to your latest model with one click.
Engage
Open conversations at volume without sounding like a bot.
Outreach that does not sound like outreach. Every message is written from your company context, in your voice, and it is personalized to the investor you are reaching.
The difference between warm and cold outreach is personalization. A generic email to 100 investors feels like spam — and investors know it. But personalized outreach at scale is time-consuming. That is where AI drafting comes in.
Capabilities
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AI-drafted outreach
Email, LinkedIn, X — all drafted from your company context. Not templates. Each message is personalized to the investor, their firm, and their past investments.
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Graduated trust model
Start in review-before-send mode: every draft sits in your inbox for approval before it goes. You teach us your voice and tone. Move to exception mode when confident: drafts arrive in a morning digest, silence means send. Move to auto for lower-priority investors.
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LinkedIn, email, X — all in one place
Manage outreach across channels without leaving Raise HQ. Track which channel worked best, what response rates look like, and which investors prefer which medium.
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Sequence support
Set up follow-up sequences. Raise HQ reminds you when to follow up, and drafts reminder messages so you do not lose momentum.
Example from this stage
Growth Ventures
Sarah Chen
Why this fit
Series A lead. Strong operator network. Focuses on founder-led teams.
Status
Active conversation
Next action
Review data room
Real-world use cases
- →You want to reach out to 50 T1 investors. Draft all 50 overnight. Review them in batch the next morning. Make tweaks, approve, send.
- →You sent an email to an investor three weeks ago and got no reply. Raise HQ reminds you to follow up. A personalized follow-up draft waits for your review.
Close
Move from interest to signed to wired without losing the thread.
Tracking investor pipeline state across all your conversations. Documents. Invoicing. Allocation. Everything you need to close, in one place.
Once an investor is interested, the work changes. You are no longer trying to open a conversation — you are nurturing it to a decision. That is a different set of problems: managing approvals, invoicing, and keeping track of who has committed and who has wired.
Capabilities
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Pipeline tracking
Real-time view of every investor's state: active, waiting for data room, reviewing terms, soft-circled, signed. Update status one tap. See your round's true shape.
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SAFE and term sheet management
Store and manage documents. Track versions. Know who is signed, who is reviewing, who needs a second signature.
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Capital call invoicing
Generate invoices for capital calls. Send pay links directly to investors. Track who has paid, who is committed, who is outstanding.
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Allocation tracking
Dashboard showing target vs soft-circled vs signed vs wired. See runway. Understand which investors are actually funding versus which are still deciding.
Example from this stage
Growth Ventures
Sarah Chen
Why this fit
Series A lead. Strong operator network. Focuses on founder-led teams.
Status
Active conversation
Next action
Review data room
Real-world use cases
- →Three investors are reviewing your term sheet. Track their status in one view. Know who has moved to signed and who is still reviewing.
- →You have collected verbal commitments from six investors totaling $1.5M. Create capital call invoices for each. Send them pay links. Track who has wired.
Run a tighter raise from day one.
Spend less time tracking and more time closing.