An agent-first CRM for founders raising a round. Touches log themselves, funds arrive graded, and every number an investor asks for sits one question away.
a16z
General Catalyst
Insight Partners
Bessemer
Lightspeed
Battery Ventures
Norwest
Sapphire Ventures
TCV
Nexus Venture Partners
Octopus Ventures
Highland Europe
Mayfield
M12
Index coverage, not endorsements: these firms are researched and graded inside Raise. They are not customers, partners or investors in it.
Email and meetings match themselves to funds; next step and due date come from the
latest message. A reply from a fund you marked passed raises a flag
instead of overwriting you.
Deals in the last 6 months, whether they lead, check size, stage and geo, then an A/B/C grade and a relevance verdict written against your scorecard, with the per-axis breakdown, because we score, we don't rank.
The Knowledge Vault keeps your PnL and MRR sheets synced, so NRR, retention and revenue concentration are current and sourced. Your deck becomes the canonical narrative, so 50 parallel conversations tell one story.
I built this during my own round. Somewhere in the middle of it the spreadsheet could still tell me who I had emailed and nothing about which conversations were actually moving — so I stopped maintaining it and started building the thing that maintains itself.
Every part of Raise is here because I needed it that week: the grade before the intro, the brief before the call, the metric ready before the investor asked for it.
Alex Halkin
Founder at Competera · building Raise
Everything is free during beta. These are the numbers we'll launch with.
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Enough to run a first list and see whether the grading agrees with you.
$29/ month
The whole raise on autopilot: every touch logged, every call briefed.
$79/ month
For a round where the numbers have to be right in the reply, not next week.
Cancel any time. Export stays free after a downgrade, including the day you close.
| Starterfree | Basic$29 / mo | Advanced$79 / mo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Funds in pipeline | 25 | unlimited | unlimited |
| Gmail readonly sync, every 30 min | yes | yes | yes |
| Auto-grading + relevance on add | within 25 | yes | yes |
| Digest | weekly | daily standup | daily standup |
| Calendar + Granola sync | — | yes | yes |
| Pre-call briefs | — | yes | yes |
| Contextual search + MCP server | — | yes | yes |
| Follow-up alarms + round math | — | yes | yes |
| Knowledge Vault (sheets, deck, AskLog) | — | — | yes |
| WhatsApp capture | — | — | yes |
| Mac desktop app | yes | yes | yes |
| Offline / local-first mode | — | — | yes |
| JSON export | yes | yes | yes |
| LLM | ours, fair-use | ours, higher cap | uncapped or your key |
Raise is an agent-first fundraising CRM for founders running a round. It syncs Gmail, Google Calendar and Granola every 30 minutes, logs every investor touch automatically, researches and grades each fund A/B/C against your company, and keeps your live metrics and deck narrative ready to answer investor questions.
Two things a generic CRM has no vocabulary for. First, every investor carries two independent axes: status (target, contacted, engaged, active, committed, plus invested, passed, ghosted, dormant) for relationship health, and stage (discovery through data room to decision) for process position. Second, grading is relative to your company, not absolute: a fund is A/B/C because of how it fits your stage, geography and check size.
It reads. Gmail is connected with readonly scope by default and that is the only scope asked for at sign-up. Send scope is requested later, separately, and only if you want the agent to send drafts for you.
A worker researches each fund with a search-grounded LLM: deals in the last 6 months, prior-year total, whether they lead rounds, typical check size, stage and geography. That produces an A/B/C grade, a 0-20 fit score with a per-axis breakdown, and a written relevance verdict against your company scorecard. Any field you correct by hand becomes a permanent override that later refreshes will not touch.
Everything is free during beta. At launch: Starter is free for up to 25 funds, Basic is $29 per month and Advanced is $79 per month, flat and cancellable any time, never a percentage of the round. JSON export is free on every tier, including after a downgrade.
Four, all over the same store: a CLI, an MCP server so Claude or any agent can query and update the pipeline conversationally, a web app with table and funnel views, and a Mac desktop app with local-first offline mode on the Advanced tier.
Access is manual while the beta is small, so every account is set up by hand and nobody lands in an empty app. Three steps, about a day end to end.