Raven is the institutional-grade platform for raising private capital — surfacing the LPs whose mandate fits yours, drafting outreach worth signing, and handling the follow-through so you spend your time in the meetings that close the fund.
Built by
Capital markets operators
Lineage
Blackstone · Cerberus
Data
EU residency · Frankfurt
Fig. 01 — The capital graph, indexed by mandate
Why we built this
The tools your team uses to raise capital were built for a different industry. Sales platforms treat a sovereign wealth fund the way they treat a SaaS lead. CRMs remember what already happened. Spreadsheets sit between every signal and the meeting it should have produced.
Raven is the platform we wanted in our seat — built from the first principle of how institutional capital actually moves.
Three modules, designed to compose into a single workflow.
Find
Surface the right allocators by mandate, ticket, and geography.
Reach
Outreach indistinguishable from your best analyst.
Close
Complete the diligence loop in hours, not weeks.
Raven indexes every LP, GP, family office, and sovereign that we know about — then ranks them against your specific mandate, ticket size, and geography. Filter, score, and route allocators into a campaign without leaving the canvas.
Every draft is written from scratch, grounded in what that allocator actually cares about — the mandate they published, the move they made last quarter, the thesis they’ve been underwriting. No templates. No mail merge. No auto-spam tone.
Sara — your remarks at the BVCA summit on the Trust’s shift toward catalytic climate capital tracked closely with how we’ve been positioning Fund III.
We’re anchoring around three theses Wellcome has publicly underwritten: grid-scale storage, industrial heat, and ag-fintech in emerging Asia. Two of our existing portfolio companies are within a quarter of the milestones in your last impact report.
I’d welcome 30 minutes — happy to come to Euston Road, or to host you in our London office. Two slots before the close of week if useful.
— Chris
Drop in any DDQ — ILPA Standard, custom LP template, sovereign questionnaire. Raven pulls from your knowledge base, drafts every answer with citations, and surfaces the questions that need a partner’s judgement before you ship it back.
4.12 Investment process — sourcing & screening
source · Fund III LPA · §4
4.13 Deal-team composition & decision rights
source · PPM · pp. 22–24
5.01 Track record — gross & net IRR by vintage
source · Audit · 2019–2024
5.02 Loss ratio & mark-to-market discipline
source · Internal memo
6.07 ESG integration & SFDR Article classification
source · ESG policy · v3
7.03 Key-person provisions & succession plan
source · LPA · §11
No implementation project. No procurement cycle. No three-month onboarding deck. Three steps and your first campaign is in market.
One-click Gmail OAuth — Outlook on the way. Thirty seconds, no IT ticket.
A short wizard captures the mandate, ticket, geography, and the LPs already in play. Five minutes.
Allocators surfaced, drafts queued for your review, replies triaged into your calendar — while you focus on the conversations that close the fund.
Every architectural decision is a defensible one — data residency, model lineage, auditability, and the right to be forgotten.
Data residency
EU Central — Frankfurt. PostgreSQL with row-level isolation per workspace.
Model lineage
Anthropic Claude — Opus for composition, Sonnet for ranking, Haiku for triage.
Identity
Clerk SSO today. SAML, SCIM, and Azure AD on the enterprise track.
Compliance
GDPR by design. SOC 2 Type II in progress with a Big Four auditor.
Auditability
Every send, draft, and DDQ answer is timestamped and exportable.
Right to be forgotten
Workspace-scoped deletion. No model training on customer data, ever.
Author
Chris El-Hajj
Founder, Raven
Prior
“Most of the time spent fundraising is not spent in front of allocators. It is spent finding them, qualifying them, drafting around them, and chasing the threads that come back. Raven exists to take that work off your team’s desk so the time you have left in the cycle is the time that compounds — face to face, in the room.”
Private alpha · By invitation
From $349 a month. Fourteen days free, no card. Standby tier between fund cycles. No success fees, ever.
Starter
$349 / mo · 5 campaigns
Professional
$899 / mo · 15 campaigns · 25 DDQs
Enterprise
Custom · SSO · SLA · Dedicated CSM