Centrale
Chapter 1p. 1
Built for founders raising pre-seed to Series A

From your domain to your first investor email in fifteen minutes.

Centrale reads your website, writes your startup profile, scores every investor against your stage and sector, and sends from an inbox that is live the moment you sign up.

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Fig. 1  Investor fit for a seed-stage climate startup. Each point is an investor.fit(i) = 30·sector + 20·stage + θ·thesis

§ 1The problem

Raising is a search problem. Most founders solve it by hand.

Spreadsheets of funds, guessed email addresses, cold domains that land in spam. Centrale treats it like an exercise with a known method.

Given.

A domain, a stage, a raise amount, and a deck if you have one.

Find.

The fifty investors most likely to reply, and a first email to each of them.

Constraint.

The first email leaves today, not after two weeks of inbox warm-up.

§ 2How it works

Four steps, shown working.

The whole path from signup to the first investor email, timed.

01

Enter your domain

We read your homepage and pull out what you sell, who buys it and what you have shipped.

30 seconds

02

Answer five questions

Team size, values, stage, revenue, and your deck if you have one. We build the profile while you answer.

2 minutes

03

Get matched

Investors outside your stage or geography drop out, then the rest are scored on sector, stage and thesis.

instant

04

Send from your own inbox

Your sending inbox exists from signup. Claude drafts each first email, you read it, and it goes.

under 15 minutes

§ 3Matching

Three passes, from the whole list to a shortlist.

Hard filters remove the impossible. A weighted score ranks the rest. Claude reads the top fifty and flags conflicts a formula cannot see.

Worked example 3.1

A seed-stage climate hardware company in Edinburgh, twelve months from revenue, raising £1.5m.

Step 1

Hard filters

Remove investors who do not write seed cheques or do not invest in the UK.

  • Leafline Climate FundSeed, Series A. UK.
  • Aster Impact CapitalSeed, Series A. Nordics and UK.
  • Keel Street CapitalPre-seed to A. US only.
  • Fornace Corporate VenturesSeries A and later.
  • Pilot Light AcceleratorPre-seed only.

Step 2

Weighted score

InvestorSectorStageThesisFit
Leafline Climate Fund30200.9286
Aster Impact Capital30200.6173
Fornace Corporate Ventures3000.7452

Step 3

Review

Claude reads each shortlisted investor's portfolio against your profile.

FlagFornace backed Coldchain One, a direct competitor. Moved to the bottom of the list.
∴

Start with Leafline, then Aster.

§ 4What you get

Everything a first raise needs, in one workspace.

A profile written from your site

We read your homepage and Claude writes the summary investors see.

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Northwind Packaging

northwind.example

Seed

Summary

Investors you can filter

Stage, sector, cheque size, geography and values, each with a fit score.

SeedClimateUKLeads rounds+ filter

Louise Phillips

Leafline Climate Fund

86

Hannah Lindqvist

Aster Impact Capital

73

Sofia Marchetti

Fornace Ventures

52

Steve Jones

Independent

41

An inbox that exists at signup

Sending starts in minutes. Replies land in one place and you get an email.

maya@omail.shready at signup

Daniel Kim

Northwind seed round, 20 minutes?

Opened

Priya Raman

Compostable cold chain

Sent

The numbers that matter

Emails sent, open rate from pixel tracking, and who replied.

Sent

86

Open rate

61%

Replies

12

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§ 5Pricing

One plan to start. Pay more only for volume.

Managed outreach

$49a month

Up to $199 a month for mobile numbers and higher daily volume.

Start your raise
or buy the full investor list once, $499
  • Startup profile written from your website and deck
  • Investor matching on stage, sector, values and thesis
  • A sending inbox created the moment you sign up
  • A Claude draft for every first email
  • Follow-ups after three days without a reply
  • Replies in one inbox, plus an email when an investor answers
  • Phone numbers for WhatsApp on higher tiers

§ 6Questions

Answers, with the working shown.

Every founder gets a sending inbox at signup on domains that are already warm, so the first emails leave straight away. Daily volume ramps up over the first month, and you can connect your own domain later.

Q.E.D.Built for founders

Your next round
starts here.

Bulk VC applications. One platform. Sign up, answer five questions and send your first investor email in fifteen minutes.