Reach the investors whose
thesis actually fits you
Agents read your company the way an investor would, find the funds that invest at your stage and in your sector, identify the partner who takes first meetings, and open the conversation — from your own address.
Read
Your site, as an investor reads it: stage, sector, business model, traction, team, and what makes you defensible. If the traction is not there, it says so rather than inventing it.
Match
A fund's mandate lives on its own website, not in any database. Agents read them, then score each fund on stage, sector, geography and cheque size — the four things that decide a first meeting.
Open
A short note to the partner who takes first meetings, naming the specific reason it is them. From your address, so a partner who looks you up finds your company.
What the agents actually do
Illustrated with an example company. Every panel is a real stage of the pipeline, not a mock-up of one.
It reads your company the way an investor reads it
If your site states no traction, this comes back empty and the emails lead with the insight or the team instead. It does not fill the gap in.
Then it reads theirs — because a mandate lives on the fund's own site
No contact database carries this. Stage, cheque size and thesis exist on the fund's own pages and nowhere else, so that is where it looks.
Every fund scored on the four things that decide a first meeting
Right sector, wrong stage — a growth fund scores low for a pre-seed company however well everything else lines up.
And writes the email a partner actually reads to the end
You led Freightpad's seed and we sell to the same operations teams — freight forwarders drowning in carrier portals.why them
Northwind replaces the twelve carrier logins a forwarder juggles with one workflow.what
€40k ARR across 14 forwarders, three more in paid pilots, growing without a salesperson.evidence
Raising a €500k pre-seed to build the remaining integrations. Worth a look at the deck?the ask
Under ninety words, no link, no attachment, no valuation, no market-size paragraph. Every number checked against the facts you gave it before you ever see the draft.
What it will not do
The constraints matter more than the features here, because every email goes out under your name to people who talk to each other.
- State a valuation, or mention a term sheet — in the opener or in any reply, even when asked directly.
- Claim other investors have committed, that the round is oversubscribed, or that it closes on a date.
- Quote a metric you did not give it. Every number is checked against your own facts before you see the draft.
- Attach your deck to a cold email. It offers the link and sends it when they ask, because an attachment from an unknown sender is a deliverability problem.
- Argue with a no. A pass is recorded, and a fund that says “too early” is kept for the next round rather than treated as a rejection.
$30 in free credits · no card to try · your own mailbox, no domains to buy
~$0.09 per email — a 200-fund round is about $108, all in
Common questions
- Do I need warm introductions to raise?
- They help, and Pipestork does not pretend to replace them. What it replaces is the part founders do badly at scale: identifying which of several thousand funds actually invest at your stage, in your sector, in your geography, at your cheque size — and writing to the specific partner who takes first meetings. A well-researched cold approach to a fund whose thesis genuinely fits outperforms a warm introduction to one whose does not.
- Which address does investor outreach send from?
- Your own. This is the opposite of how we handle sales outreach, and it is deliberate: a partner who receives a funding email will look the sender up, and mail from a lookalike domain reads as phishing. A raise is a few hundred emails over several weeks, which is ordinary volume for a real company domain, so there is no reputation reason to hide behind another one. You connect your existing mailbox and nothing is bought or warmed.
- How does it decide which investors fit?
- It reads your website the way an investor would — stage, sector, business model, traction, team, what makes you defensible — and then reads investors' own websites for their stated thesis, cheque size, geography and portfolio. A fund's mandate is not in any contact database; it exists on their site and nowhere else. Every fund is then scored on whether it invests at your stage, in your sector, in your geography, at your size. A growth fund scores low for a pre-seed company however well the sector matches.
- Will it invent traction I do not have?
- No, and it is checked rather than merely instructed. Every number in a drafted email is verified against the facts you supplied, and anything unsupported is rewritten or removed before you see it. If your site states no metrics, the emails lead with the insight or the team and say plainly that it is early. A fabricated figure in front of an investor is not recoverable.
- Does it talk about valuation or who else is in the round?
- Never, in either direction. The agent is barred from stating a valuation, mentioning a term sheet, claiming other investors have committed, or implying the round is closing — in the first email and in every reply, even when an investor asks directly. Those are statements about a live financing, and the answer is that they are best covered on a call.
- What does a round cost to run?
- Investor outreach is about $0.09 per email sent, with no subscription and nothing else to buy — you send from your own mailbox, so there are no domains or mailboxes to pay for. A round targeting 200 funds is roughly 1,200 emails across a three-step sequence to two partners at each, so about $108 in total. It costs more per email than our sales product because the work is different: no database records what a fund invests in, so every investor's site is read individually rather than a list being filtered. New accounts start with $30 in credits, which covers around 55 funds.
- How many investors should I contact?
- Most seed rounds are run against 150 to 300 investors. At 20 emails a day that is a few weeks of sending, which is why a real company domain carries it comfortably and why no warmup period is needed before you start.