Raven is the institutional platform that surfaces every allocator whose mandate fits your fund. Drafts the outreach worth signing your name to, and runs the diligence loop in days, not weeks.
Built by
Capital-markets operators
Lineage
Real Estate PE · $100B fund
Track record
$2B+ executed
Network
14,200 nodes · 62 hubs
A live feed of the kind of signals Raven reads · illustrative
No. 01
A reckoning, in three numbers.
18mo
avg. time to first close
70%
spent prospecting & follow-up
1:60
cold-outreach reply rate
An essay,
in fragments.
The tools that consume a fundraise – sales platforms, CRMs, spreadsheets – were built for a different industry.
They treat a sovereign wealth fund the way they treat a SaaS lead.They remember what already happened.They sit, politely, between every signal
and the meeting it should have produced.
We spent a decade on the inside – investing real estate private equity at a $100B fund, then advising on more than a billion dollars of fundraising – watching brilliant people copy LP names from one spreadsheet into another, and re-write the same email sixty times before a Wednesday board call. Raven is what happens when you stop accepting that as the job.
No. 02
One platform. Every stage of the raise.
Three modules, designed to compose into a single workflow, so the time you save in one stage compounds into the next.
Atlas is our proprietary database of every allocator we know of, ranked against your mandate.
Four Ravens work on top of it.
Scouts beyond the database.
Finds allocators no CRM knows about yet.
Catches deployment moments.
Closes, exits, mandate shifts, rotations.
Threads cross-campaign intel.
Warm paths across your past funds.
Reverse-DDQs the allocator.
You walk in knowing their questions.
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 capital¹ 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 Asia². Two of our existing portfolio companies are within a quarter of the milestones in your last impact report³.
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
Grounded in real signals
Every yellow-underlined phrase pulls from a specific filing, press moment, or allocator mandate.
Every claim cited
Tone · peer / institutional
First-name address. Warm close. No "I hope this finds you well."
Risk flags
None detected · ready for review
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 judgment before you ship it back.
Question
Provide gross & net IRR by vintage, net of fees and carry.
Raven’s draft answer
writing…Returns by vintage, net of 2% management fee and 20% carry:
Fund III · too early to mark · first distribution expected Q4 ’26
Raven reads your data room, drafts the answer in your voice, and links every number back to the document it came from, so the reviewer can trust it in one click.
Investment process · sourcing & screening
source · Fund III LPA § 4
Deal-team composition & decision rights
source · PPM pp. 22–24
Track record · gross & net IRR by vintage
source · Audit · 2019–2024
Loss ratio & mark-to-market discipline
route · Partner judgement
ESG integration & SFDR Article classification
source · ESG policy v3
Key-person provisions & succession plan
source · LPA § 11
Reviewer queue
The 8 questions only a partner can answer are surfaced for you — not buried in the pile.
An aside,
from the founder.
“Raven is the platform we wanted in our seat. Built from the first principle of how institutional capital actually moves.”
No. 03
Every step here exists for one reason, to put a partner in a room with an LP.
Commitments don’t come from dashboards. They come from meetings. Raven’s job is to book more of them, and to keep your partners out of the paperwork in between.
A field guide,
in six movements.
The north star —
Meetings booked,
per partner,
per week.
Drop in your data room, prior decks, last raise's outreach. Raven indexes against your mandate. SSO live. No services engagement, no implementation fees.
Mandate-fit ranking against your specific thesis. Each name carries a one-page brief: recent moves, public commitments, who on your cap table already knows them. The shortlist is a meeting list, ordered by who will pick up the phone.
No mass send. Drafts cite real signals from the allocator's last quarter, reference a mutual, and propose a time. Follow-ups trigger on silence, on reply, on forward, all with one goal: turn an inbox thread into a 30-minute slot.
Twelve to eighteen first meetings land on the partnership’s calendar. Raven writes a pre-read the night before each one: the allocator’s recent tape, questions they’ve asked other GPs, the three things to not-say. After the meeting, it drafts the follow-up from your notes before you land.
This week · partner calendar
14 meetings booked
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Same partner. Same five days. 3× the conversations.
A 312-question ILPA arrives Monday; by Wednesday every answer is drafted with citations. The eight questions only a partner can answer surface cleanly, the other 304 never touch your week. Paperwork stops being the reason you cancel Thursday's call.
Allocators wire money to GPs they trust, and trust is built across three conversations, not three dashboards. Raven’s scoreboard was never open rates or pipeline value. It was always this: meetings taken, hands shaken, checks signed.
No. 04
Composite figures from our private alpha cohort, eight funds, four asset classes, raises from $80M to $1.4B.
The cycle, rewritten
From eighteen months to under nine.
Cycle time
−0%
Median time from first touch to soft commit, vs. the same teams’ prior raise.
Reply rate
0.0×
Allocator reply rate on Raven-drafted outreach vs. industry baseline cold outreach.
DDQ throughput
0×
Answers drafted per partner-hour. Reviewer queue catches the questions only you can answer.
Hours returned
~0/wk
Per partner, on average. Time that compounds into the meetings that close the fund.
Field report
Managing Partner
$420M infra fund
London · 2025
“It is the first tool I have shown the partnership where everyone (including the founders, who have raised four funds between them) said ‘we needed this on the last raise.’”
No. 05
Engineered for the institutions that built the industry.
Every architectural decision is a defensible one: data residency, model lineage, auditability, and the right to be forgotten.
Data residency
EU Central, Frankfurt. Postgres with row-level isolation per workspace.
Model lineage
Anthropic Claude. Opus for composition, Sonnet for ranking, Haiku for triage.
Compliance
GDPR by design. SOC 2 Type II in progress with a Big Four auditor. Every action timestamped and exportable.
Right to be forgotten
Workspace-scoped deletion. No model training on customer data, ever.
No. 06
A short letter, in the founder’s hand.
Author
Christophe El-Hage
Founder, Raven
Prior
Track record
$2B+ in transactions executed
“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.”
I spent a decade inside the institutions that allocate private capital, investing real estate private equity at a $100B fund, then advising on more than a billion dollars of fundraising. Every tool I used was built for a different industry. Raven is the tool I wish I’d had.
Raven is in private alpha with eight institutional GPs. We onboard one new fund per fortnight to keep the bench close to the partnership.
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Commercial terms
Fourteen days free, no card. No success fees, ever.
Starter
$349 / mo
Two seats. Five active campaigns. Outreach + Atlas.
Professional
$899 / mo
Eight seats. Fifteen campaigns. Twenty-five DDQs. Reviewer queue.
Institutional
On request
Unlimited. SSO, SCIM, dedicated environment. Named partner contact.