Case studies · Sute

101 investor replies for a $9M seed round.

Sute is raising a $9M seed for their AI Native Workspace and AI Agents platform. We ran the outbound. In two weeks: 101 replies, 41 positive. The list of firms who said “send the deck” reads like a fundraising fantasy team.

Investor outreach Seed fundraising AI Native Workspace AI Agents
Client: Sute Founder: Sathi Roy Round: $9M Seed
$9M
Seed round target
Closing in 60 days
101
Investor replies
In two weeks
41
Positive replies
“Send the deck”
9
Top-tier VCs
Replies showcased below
$5.5B+
Combined AUM
Of firms who replied

The setup.

Sute partnered with Clay Stan for their seed-round fundraising campaign. The ask: $9M (SAFE) closing in 60 days. The job: get the deck in front of every check-writer who’d look at an AI Native Workspace and AI Agents play.

We pulled the investor universe ourselves, enriched it, verified it, wrote the copy from scratch, and ran the campaigns. Two weeks later: 101 replies, 41 of them positive.

Replies pulled from
$5.5B+ in AUM

Combined assets under management of just the nine featured firms below. The full reply list runs longer.

The wall of replies.

Every screenshot below is a real inbound from a partner or principal at the named firm. AUM figures sourced from public filings and firm disclosures.

Bonfire Ventures
AUM · $1B+
Email reply from Bonfire Ventures: 'I'd be pleased to review your deck. Thanks!'
Mucker Capital
AUM · ~$550M
Email reply from Mucker Capital: I'm an early stage investor at Mucker Capital and wanted to follow up on your outreach to Omar. Would be my pleasure to learn more about what you're working on.
Kibo Ventures
AUM · €500M+
Email reply from Kibo Ventures: 'Yes, please send.'
OpenOcean
AUM · €350--400M
Email reply from OpenOcean: 'Hi Sathi! Happy to take a look at the deck!'
Benhamou Global Ventures
AUM · $300M+
Email reply from Eric at Benhamou Global Ventures: 'Please send the deck.'
Mantis VC
AUM · ~$250M
Email reply from Jeffrey Evans at Mantis VC: 'Sure. Please send.'
Third Kind Venture Capital
AUM · $200M+
Email reply from Third Kind Venture Capital: 'Hi - Happy to look at any materials you want to send. Thanks!'
Acadian Ventures
AUM · ~$45M
Email reply from Audrey at Acadian Ventures: 'Yes of course! Hi Sathi, super keen to learn more. Blockit cc'd will help find a time to speak next week.'

The copy.

Replies of this caliber don’t come from templates. The whole approach was built around one question: why should this specific partner stop scrolling and read?

The golden bullet

The structure we sent

Note: the names and companies in the example below are illustrative placeholders, not Sute’s real founder or product details. We’re showing the structure -- subject-line research, six tight body blocks, no fluff -- not the literal copy.

We broke this down on LinkedIn.

The full mechanics -- subject lines, framing, ICP build -- live in this post. Embedded below so you can read it without leaving the site.

in LinkedIn post · A data-backed guide to fundraising
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The stack we deployed

  • Octoparse + Instant Data Scraper -- investor database build from scratch
  • Clay -- data enrichment and per-investor personalization
  • Apollo, Icypeas, Leadmagic -- email enrichment and verification
  • Reoon + BounceBan -- double email verification, <1% bounce rate
  • Email Guard -- ESG (Email Security Gateway) avoidance
  • HeyReach -- LinkedIn outreach delivery

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Blue skies,
Team Clay Stan