Contacts for founders

Your raise, your hires and your first customers, off the spreadsheet.

Ari · Contacts · Pipelines · Demo
Our $3M seed round9
Filled in: 9 items, 13 updates.
To be contacted2
  • Harbor Capital

    Maya offered to introduce you to Nina after your call

    Nov 4
  • Westpoint Ventures

    Met Omar at the founders dinner; he asked to see the deck when you raise

    Oct 29
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Reached out1 · $1.0M
  • Lakeside Ventures

    Sam introduced you to Elena; she asked for a partner meeting

    Nov 3$1.0M
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Engaged2 · $800.0K
  • Northwind Fund

    Could lead

    Second call Monday; Ava wants the cohort data first

    Nov 4$750.0K
  • Maya Chen
    Angel investor

    In for $50K if the round comes together; asked for the latest deck

    Nov 4$50.0K
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Committed2 · $500.0K
  • Pioneer Angels

    Committed by email; the SAFE is out for signature

    Nov 2$400.0K
  • Kim Alvarez
    Angel investor

    Committed on your call Monday

    Nov 2$100.0K
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Closed1 · $250.0K
  • Foundry Angels

    Wired; the signed SAFE is filed

    Oct 22$250.0K
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Future discussion1
  • Summit Growth

    Too early for them; back in touch at the Series A

    Oct 26
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Demo · simplifiedA seed round on the Fundraising template: each firm a card with its partners on it, each stage adding up. Move a card, or open one for its todos and updates.
What’s different

The relationships a company is built on, kept for you.

Run your round on a board Ari fills in from your email and meetings: every investor you’ve talked to, by stage, with what’s committed adding up. Your hires and your first customers get boards of their own. And when you need a way in to a partner, Ari finds a warm intro through people you actually know.

Instead ofthe fundraising spreadsheet, Clay, Dex

01

Your round, on a board

Start the Fundraising pipeline and Ari fills it in from your last 30 days of email and meetings, then keeps it current: each firm a card, its partners on it, its amount and the latest update. What you owe each firm is on its card, and you can share the board with your co-founder.

02

A warm intro to any partner

Type a firm, or “Partner at Lakeside”, and Ari lights up every route through people you know, scored by the weaker link. Ask “which investors am I close to?” and it answers from your real history.

03

Hire from your own network

The Hiring pipeline tracks candidates from Sourced to Hired. Each week Reconnect picks people worth a note, read against your goals: “You’re hiring a Head of Sales; Dana built Stripe’s sales team.”

04

Never walk into a pitch cold

Prep arrives before each meeting. For people outside your company, Ari researches them first and leads with what you share: a company or school you were both at, a city you’ve both lived in.

Find a way in

Every route to the partner you want.

Type a firm, a domain or “Partner at Lakeside”. Ari lights up every route to them through people you know, scored by the weaker link: how well you know your contact, and how well they know the partner. Pick one and Ari drafts the ask.

Your network, already built

Everyone you’ve emailed or met is in Contacts from day one. Import your LinkedIn connections and they’re in the routes too.

Through your team

With your team on Ari, routes also run through colleagues who know someone at the firm. Only names, titles and companies are shared.

Or just ask

“Who can introduce me to Elena Ruiz?” or “which investors am I close to?”, and Ari answers from your real history.

Ari · Contacts · Demo
Contacts
A lightweight, AI-powered personal CRM. Ari extracts contacts from your interactions.
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2,180 contacts · 112 companies shared by two or more
3 people who can help you connect with “Elena Ruiz”
General Partner at Lakeside Ventures
  • Sam Okafor
    Acme · Founder & CEO
    Your contact · close contact · 3 meetings with Elena
    Ask
  • Maya Chen
    Independent · Angel investor
    Your contact · in touch last month · 1 meeting with Elena
    Ask
  • Ravi Mehta
    Your team · Head of Engineering
    Colleague · knows someone at Lakeside
    Ask
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“Ask” has Ari draft the email to Sam asking for an introduction, for you to read and send.
Demo · simplifiedThree people who can introduce you to a partner at Lakeside Ventures, each route scored by its weaker link.
Selling too?

Customer calls update your CRM. Investor calls stay in your pipeline.

Connect HubSpot, Salesforce or Attio, and after each customer or partnership call Ari offers to update it from the notes: the meeting logged, new people added, the stage and next step moved. Investor meetings aren’t CRM records, so they stay in your Fundraising pipeline.

  • HubSpot
  • Salesforce
  • Attio
How Ari takes the notes

Only client calls

Sales, customer, service and partnership meetings with people outside your company. Your 1:1s, investor meetings and interviews never touch the CRM.

Ask me each time

The default. Your notes come with Update, Not this time and Always update automatically, and nothing is written until you’ve seen every change.

Or automatically

Ari makes the changes without asking, then tells you what it changed, record by record. Any instructions you’ve given it for your CRM apply.

After each call, or once a day

It follows your meeting notes: an update after each meeting, or one at the end of the day for all of the day’s client calls.

Ari · Slack DM · Demo
After the call
AriAPP11:32 AM
Meeting notes: Lumen · design partner call
  • Lumen will pilot with their ops team in December.
  • Grace wants a usage export before they’ll pay.
  • Check back after their board meeting on the 20th.

Want me to update Attio from this meeting? I’ll show you the changes before I make them.

UpdateNot this timeAlways update automatically
You pressed Update
AriAPP11:32 AM

Here’s what I’d change in Attio:

  • DealLumen · pilot
    Stage:
    Discovery→Pilot
    Next step:
    Send the usage export by Wednesday
  • PersonGrace LiuNew
    Job title:
    Head of Operations
    Company:
    Lumen
  • MeetingDesign partner call · todayNew
    Logged on:
    Lumen · pilot

Shall I make these changes?

Yes, go ahead
Demo · simplifiedAfter a client call, the notes arrive with the offer to update Attio, and Ari shows each change before making it.
One Ari, not another app

It already knows what your other apps know.

Every Ari app reads from the same memory of your work, so nothing has to be copied between them, and each one gets better as you use the others.