Raise Faster.
Connect Smarter.
India's first video-native social network for founders, investors and creators.
The opportunity
Indian fundraising is broken.
Founders spend months chasing investors with cold emails and PDF decks nobody reads. Investors drown in 500+ unread pitches a week.
90%
cold pitches ignored
Most decks never get a reply.
6mo
avg time-to-raise
Founders bleed runway chasing capital.
0
video-native platforms
No product built for how founders pitch in 2026.
Solution
Pitch in 60 seconds. Skip the deck.
RaiseX turns the cold-email-and-PDF dance into a video-first feed.
- 01
Vertical pitch reels
60 seconds. Vertical video. Built like TikTok, gated like a club.
- 02
Curated investor feed
Filtered by sector, stage, traction. No noise.
- 03
One-tap connect
Direct DMs. Share decks privately. Move fast.
@aanya · Helio AI
Seed · ₹2.5Cr raising
Why now
Three shifts converged. All in 2024–26.
Timing isn't accident. It's tailwind.
Behavior
Short-form is default
Founders raised on Reels won't write 30-slide decks.
Market
India's startup decade
100K+ startups. 1500+ investors. Too big for cold email.
Infra
Cheap video, fast UPI
Cost to ship a gated video network dropped 10x.
Product
Shipping today. Live at raisex.in.
Not a roadmap. A working product with real users posting real pitches.
Pitch reels
60s vertical video. Captions, sector tags.
Discovery feed
For-you ranking. Sector + stage filters.
Connect & DM
One-tap interest. Shareable decks.
Raise tracker
Live target, committed, traction.
Next 90 days
Market opportunity
India's startup network. Bigger every quarter.
Bottom-up sizing on a market adding 44K+ startups every year.
TAM
$12B
Global founder-investor matching
SAM
$420M
India-active founders + investors
SOM (24mo)
$28M
Tier-1 seed-to-Series A beachhead
DPIIT startups
2.23 Lakh+
Active investors
3,170
Capital FY25
$11B
Proof
3 days. 100+ reels.
Soft launched. No paid acquisition. Pure organic founder pull.
Beta users
50+
↑ growing daily
Pitch reels
100+
↑ 2+ per user
Days live
3
organic only
What's working
- ✓ Founders posting unprompted
- ✓ 7-day retention > 40%
- ✓ Investor connects on day 1
- ✓ Beta cohort word-of-mouth
Beta quote
"I shot my pitch on the way to a coffee meeting. Two investors DM'd me before I got there."
— Beta founder, fintech
Business model
Three revenue lines. All compounding.
Network first. Monetize second. We grow the graph before we tax it.
01 · Investor SaaS
Premium tier
Deal flow CRM, AI-scored pitches, priority access, advanced filters.
Recurring · per seat
02 · Founder boost
Pitch visibility
Promoted reels. Verified raise tracker. Investor reach reports.
Pay-per-boost
03 · Creator marketplace
Take rate
Founders hire creators for pitch content. We take a cut of every gig.
Transactional · % of GMV
Why this compounds
Recurring base
Investor SaaS gives predictable ARR — the floor under everything.
Transactional upside
Boost + marketplace scale with the network — more users, more revenue.
High-margin software
No inventory. No physical assets. Margins improve as we scale.
Landscape
We don't compete. We replace the workflow.
Existing tools serve fragments. We unify the founder-investor moment.
Video · Gated · Direct · India
Not video-native. Generic network. Not founder-built.
AngelList
Gated + direct, but US-first and PDF-only.
Tyke / LetsVenture
India-focused, but listings — no pitch motion.
Our moat
Network effects + content gravity. Every reel improves discovery. Every approval tightens curation. Every connection deepens the graph. Static directories can't catch up — we compound.
Team
Two founders. One obsession.
Built lean, shipped fast, live in 3 days.
Swapnil Yadav
Co-founder · Product & Engineering
Full-stack builder shipping consumer products at speed. Built RaiseX from zero to live in days. Obsessed with the founder-investor matching problem and the unfair distribution edge that short-form video unlocks in India.
Sankalp Vashisth
Co-founder · Growth & Network
Operator with deep ties across India's founder and investor circles. Drives top-of-funnel: gated user acquisition, investor onboarding, and the brand narrative that turned RaiseX from idea to a 50-founder network in 3 days.
Advisor seats open
Looking for operators with founder-investor distribution edge or India fintech regulatory depth.
What's next
Build the network.
Then scale it.
We're heads-down on the next 18 months. Here's what we're chasing.
0–6 months
Density
Grow to 1,000+ verified founders + 100+ active investors. Prove the matching motion works.
6–12 months
Monetization
Ship investor SaaS tier. Launch creator marketplace. First paying cohorts on both sides.
12–18 months
Scale
Native mobile apps. AI pitch scoring. Expand beyond Tier-1 cities. Open Series A conversations.
For investors
We're early. We're building publicly. If you back early-stage India consumer tech and want to talk, we'd love to walk you through the data room.
One pitch away
The next great Indian startup
won't email you.
It'll pitch you.
Join the network where founders, investors and creators move faster — together.
Contact
swapnil@raisex.in
raisex.in · India
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