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67 investor replies for an eVTOL seed round.

Jump Aero is a neonVest portfolio company building the fastest rapid-response eVTOL aircraft ever made -- for emergency medical services and defense. We ran the outbound for the $2.5M seed. 61.19% positive reply rate across two campaigns.

Investor outreachDeepTecheVTOL / Defense$2.5M seed
Client: Jump Aero (neonVest portfolio) Founder: Carl Dietrich (CEO, MIT PhD) Round: $2.5M Seed
550
Investors contacted
Across 2 campaigns
67
Replies
12.18% overall reply rate
41
Positive replies
61.19% of all replies
76%
Top campaign positive
Campaign 1 alone

The setup.

Jump Aero is led by Carl Dietrich -- MIT PhD, Lemelson-MIT Prize winner, prior founder of Terrafugia (sold to Geely). The thesis is sharp. The credibility is rare. The remaining job: get the deck in front of every check-writer who'd back deep tech for emergency medical and defense.

Through the neonVest partnership we kicked off a dedicated outreach motion across two sequenced campaigns.

Campaign performance.

Campaign 01 -- 372 contacted, 50 replies, 38 positive (76%)
Campaign 01 -- 372 contacted, 50 replies, 38 positive (76%)
Campaign 02 -- 178 contacted, 17 replies, 3 positive (17.65%)
Campaign 02 -- 178 contacted, 17 replies, 3 positive (17.65%)

Replies from top firms.

Reply from GOVO Venture Partners
GOVO Venture Partners -- early-stage tech firm; direct invite to send the deck
Reply from Deep Work Capital
Deep Work Capital -- Florida deep-tech VC; partner reply with diligence questions & intro call invite
Reply from Astia
Astia -- 25+ years backing women-led ventures; formal application complete, asking next steps
Reply from Active Impact Investments
Active Impact Investments -- ~CAD 110M Vancouver climate-tech fund; call booked via Calendly
Reply from Serena Ventures
Serena Ventures -- 60+ early-stage portfolio across consumer, enterprise & frontier tech
Reply from BDEV Ventures
BDEV Ventures -- early-stage enterprise software & frontier tech; participating across the network
Reply from K Street Capital
K Street Capital -- DC-based VC across enterprise software, fintech & defense-relevant tech

The stack we deployed

  • Octoparse + Instant Data Scraper -- investor database scraping
  • Clay -- data enrichment and personalization
  • Apollo, Icypeas, Leadmagic -- email enrichment
  • BounceBan + Reoon -- double email verification, sub-1% bounce
  • EmailGuard -- bypass ESPs, land in primary
  • HeyReach -- LinkedIn outreach sequencing
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The full copy framework

The subject-line research method that drove these reply rates is broken down in our LinkedIn post.

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