Raylu

We're teaming up with Litquidity to kick off February with a Happy Hour for growth equity and private equity professionals in NYC. 📅 Thursday, February 5th 🕡 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 📍 Near Bryant Park (exact location shared upon registration) If you work in PE, growth equity, or VC, come by for drinks, bites, and great conversations. Spots are limited. Register here: https://luma.com/5neo9jfa See you there!

Happy New Year! 🎉 We recently raised our Series A, led by HighlandX, to accelerate Raylu’s mission: helping private-market teams instrument, evaluate, and integrate every step of deal origination through a discipline we call Deal Engineering. This is the start of a new era of sourcing — an AI-native engine that helps funds scale origination with precision at scale, across any market. Because Raylu is built to mirror how investors actually work, it can automate the end-to-end origination workflow — from thesis → market map → company intelligence → outreach. We’re excited to share what we’re building next for the future of private markets, so if you’re an investor who wants more proprietary deal flow, book a demo today! From all of us at Raylu — Happy New Year!

We’ve raised an $8M Series A to build the platform for Deal Engineering in private markets - led by HighlandX. We’re also sharing our previously unannounced $4M Seed, led by Conversion Capital and Unusual Ventures, with angels including Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), Diego Oppenheimer (Algorithmia/DataRobot), and Trent Hedge (Pylon). Huge thank you to our investors for believing in this mission — and to the 45+ private-investment funds representing over $500B in AUM who already run their sourcing on Raylu. From venture and growth equity to private equity and corporate development, you’ve pushed us to build faster and smarter. Why we call it “Deal Engineering” After thousands of hours in the weeds with sourcing teams, we’ve learned that modern origination needs more than tools — it needs its own discipline. We call that Deal Engineering. Deal Engineering is about turning non-deterministic AI into repeatable sourcing outcomes — moving investors from thesis → market map → qualified outreach → booked founder meetings in minutes instead of weeks, with full coverage and a clear feedback loop into the CRM. Traditional deal sourcing has been far too manual: static lists, endless Google searches, email hunting, and hand-updating CRMs. We built Raylu so agents and workflows can instrument, evaluate, and integrate every step of origination. What we’ve been building Instead of forcing new habits, we built Raylu to mimic your existing origination workflow — just faster, smarter, and instrumented end-to-end. That’s taken shape in: • Raylu Market Maps – real-time, thesis-aligned landscapes with standardized signals and coverage of bootstrapped & emerging companies •360° Company Intelligence – product, GTM, hiring, benchmarks, buyers, and comps before the first call •Fund-Voice Outreach – verified decision-makers and multi-touch emails written in your firm’s voice •Two-Way CRM Sync – enrichment and activity sync for Salesforce, Affinity, and DealCloud without workflow friction •Gmail/Outlook + Chrome extension – Raylu wherever your team already lives: inbox, browser, and CRM This is how private markets move from manual lists to engineered deal flow. 🚀 We’re hiring and hiring fast. If you want to help build the platform for Deal Engineering in private markets, we’d love to meet you: https://raylu.ai/career 📅 Curious what Deal Engineering looks like in your workflow? Book a demo: https://lnkd.in/euxDeaBi

We’re hiring an AI Customer Success Manager at Raylu! We’re looking for a high-slope, high-ownership operator who can own the full customer journey across GE/VC/PE - from first login to daily power user. You’ll be the person who turns pilots into renewals and expansions: deeply understanding investor workflows, designing onboarding and success plans, monitoring usage and outcomes, and making Raylu’s AI agents indispensable to origination and deal teams. We’re looking for 2–5 years in CS/AM at a high-growth B2B startup or experience in PE/VC/finance/consulting, strong product sense, comfort translating AI/LLM into plain English, and a revenue mindset around expansion and multi-year commitments. If this sounds like you - or someone you know - we strongly encourage you to apply here: https://lnkd.in/eiNw_scK or reach out to Rachel Vadhan.

We’re hiring an Account Executive at Raylu! We’re looking for a high-slope, high-velocity seller who can own the full cycle across GE/VC/PE: multi-threading with partners/C-suite, rigorous discovery, outcome-tied POVs, and turning quantified ROI into signed enterprise agreements. This is the person who turns interest into revenue - and makes Raylu indispensable to origination teams. This isn’t a typical AE seat; you’ll run disciplined deal strategy, build executive business cases, and navigate deals to close. ~3+ years closing complex B2B SaaS/data, consistent performance at $600K+ ARR quotas, and the ability to translate AI/LLM into board-level ROI. Bonus for selling to PE/VC/LPs and turning POVs into multi-year agreements. If this sounds like you - or someone you know - we strongly encourage you to apply here: https://lnkd.in/eVY5UtbU or reach out to Palmer Kruzner.

We’re hiring a Growth Strategist at Raylu! We’re looking for a high-slope, high-velocity operator who can own the levers that make pipeline move: marketing campaigns, community programs, referral loops, and thought leadership. This is the person who turns attention into meetings and pilots - and makes Raylu feel essential to GE/VC/PE teams. This isn’t a typical “Growth” role; you’ll run campaigns, build referral loops, and convert attention into qualified pipeline. ~2–5 years in fast-paced environments, top-tier writing/research, and comfort operating autonomously. Bonus for private-markets context and fluency with AI workflows. If this sounds like you - or someone you know - we strongly encourage you to apply here: https://lnkd.in/exeqdYBw or reach out to Adedayo A..

The legal industry is changing fast - and so are the AI tools lawyers rely on. Law-firm leaders and in-house counsel should know: 🔑 Adoption is accelerating. AI use in legal nearly tripled from 11% (2023) to 30% (2024), with large firms leading the way. 🔑 Impact expectations are high. 80% of legal professionals say AI will have a high or transformational impact on their work within five years; 53% already report ROI. 🔑 Ediscovery is leading. 37% of e-discovery professionals now use gen-AI (up from 12% two years ago). If you want an easy way to see every player in this space (or any space), book a demo with Raylu below! #legaltech #ai #lawfirms #inhousecounsel #ediscovery #contractmanagement

We’re excited to share that Raylu is leveraging turbopuffer to power our AI-driven sourcing and research platform for private-market investors. This isn’t just an infra upgrade. By running millions of per-company vector databases on TurboPuffer’s high-performance retrieval layer, Raylu can instantly benchmark markets, surface overlooked winners, and compress diligence cycles — all in real time. With TurboPuffer behind the scenes, our agents can read and structure ~500 pages of context on every company (web, press, hiring signals, product language), then answer free-form questions across thousands of targets with sub-second, source-grounded responses. Don't just take our word for it - “Raylu’s research depth is unlike anything we’ve seen - it reads everything about a company and gives us structured insights instantly. The speed and scale at which it operates are game-changing for sourcing.” said Rafael Carranza, Partner at Gram Asset Management Read more below.

We’re excited to share that Raylu is leveraging Temporal Technologies to power our agentic AI platform for private-markets research. This collaboration pairs Temporal’s durable workflow engine with Raylu’s finance-trained AI, giving investors faster, more reliable market mapping and company research at scale. With Temporal orchestrating our agents, Raylu can parallelize deep research across thousands of companies, recover seamlessly from failures, and deliver sub-second, source-grounded answers—all with clear traceability for compliance. Read more below.

We're excited to announce Raylu now integrates with Gmail & Outlook - bringing your inbox into the same workspace where you build theses and market maps. Draft in your voice, launch reply-aware sequences, and track outcomes without switching tools. This integration combines your firm’s context (thesis, PortCos, market intel) with Raylu’s finance-trained AI to automate critical workflows—from targeted list building to bespoke investor outreach. Read more below.