The ORCA Network

We just launched our new Fundraising Co-Pilot on top of our existing network that makes it 25x faster and more efficient for founders to identify, research, and target their most ideal investor profiles. And we're giving 2 months of it away for free to 1 founder... But first, here's how the product itself works ⬇️ 1️⃣ M.L. Investor Matching: The backbone of our platform is a network where investors interact with startups. We use the tens of thousands of unique data points that we have on our network to find the most relevant investors for your startup using a proprietary algorithm based on their thesis, the firm's thesis, their portfolio, real time activity, and much more. 2️⃣ A.I. Research Agent: The most effective outreach is well-researched and personalized. Our research agent aggregates all relevant information about an investor to supercharge your outreach so the process takes seconds as opposed to 30 minutes. 3️⃣ Getting connected: Warm intros are often the best way to get in touch with the right investors. We help you find the best way to get in touch with the right investors (warm intros or cold messages), and then help you build the actual message. 4️⃣ Tailored outbound message generation: Messages have to be highly curated in order to stand out. We've built a model that is trained on successful outreach messages, combines all the right pieces of your information and theirs (from the research agent) to help you catch the eyes of any investor. It also learns to sound more and more like you the more you use it. 5️⃣ Status management and CRM: With our integrations, we make it easy to track the status of the raise and get insights into the startup's performance. You're also fully a part of the network and can track how organic investors engage with your startup. 🚀 The coolest part of all of this is you can try it for yourself in 10 seconds. We've built it into our landing page so all you need to do is put your website link in here https://theorcanetwork.com and watch the magic happen. Customers have been loving it in the 2 days since it has launched, so we decided to have some fun with a little giveaway: 🤑 Any founder who tags another founder in the comments gets entered into a raffle where the winner will win 2 months of the Co-Pilot plan for free. That's 9 days, 17 hours, and 20 minutes saved. Tag fellow founders below to be entered! As Charlie Wehan alluded to in his post, the fundraising co-pilot is just the tip of the iceberg in regard to the future of ORCA. A lot more to come with the power of the data we're collecting and the models we're building. Stay tuned 👀

We are excited to announce the launch of The ORCA Network's AI fundraising co-pilot! Currently, ORCA proudly hosts 2,020+ startups and 450+ Investors while facilitating 2,230 startup<>investor introductions. The platform/network has generated over 50,000 unique data points, offering key insights into what it takes to successfully raise a round. This tool aims to make the process of identifying the most relevant investors, researching them, figuring out if you should get a warm intro or cold email, to then executing and managing the outreach 10x more efficiently.  The demo below shows how powerful it can be!   We have been in closed beta for the last month but are now excited to onboard more and more founders to utilize the fundraising co-pilot and achieve their own personal goals. This is just the first of what will be a suite of tools that enable founders to build startups more efficiently utilizing the power of AI agents on top of a network. Please share your thoughts/feedback so we can continuously improve the platform and product!

We have begun announcing our new product internally to The ORCA Network founders and this has been the response... excited to launch publicly next week! stay tuned...

🔊 Calling all MBA founders to apply to our Paris Startup Pitch Competition where the winner will receive a $50k investment from us. Some key info: - Organizing competition in partnership with The HEC Paris MBA Tournament ("MBAT"), the largest gathering of MBAs in Europe with 1,500+ MBA students from 15+ business schools attending HEC Paris’s campus for 3-days of competitions, networking, and social activities & The ORCA Network, the innovation platform connecting entrepreneurs to funding, resources, and investor networking. - 5 finalists will be selected to pitch in-person at HEC Paris Campus on May 9th - Eligible teams MUST have at least one MBA founder (currently enrolled or graduated) - Applications are open until April 28th - Panel of experienced judges will award the $50K investment with a live audience - No startup is too early! Apply using the link below. Feel free to drop any questions in the comments. Applications: https://lnkd.in/dudC7UXD More info of MBAT event: https://lnkd.in/d8Wg3zHG 🙏 Thanks Sebastian Molter Anshika Gupta Shogo Kodama for setting this up. #venturecapital #earlystage #startups

Distinguishing signal from noise is the name of the game, especially when it comes to early stage venture. While Charlie Wehan's post last week highlighted our recent trends in growth, the other, massively important piece of the puzzle is the quality of the startups funneling into the platform and finding value in what it is we're building. Rather than me making a post about our unique brand, distribution, and technical approaches that makes us different in this space, I thought it'd be more powerful to let the data and the quality speak for itself (see graphic). - We've identified startups prior to YC, Neo, Antler, TechStars and other top accelerators - Intros on ORCA have led to 40+ successful investments - Actively used by investors from Tier 1 firms on a weekly basis - see graphic for much more We're tremendously grateful to have so many incredible founders trusting us, they make our network what it is. There are also countless high-quality startups that we couldn't fit on the graphic. You may have to go onto ORCA to find all of those :) cc Shehbaz Virk Ishan Balakrishnan Alexandra Bono Pedro Pachuca Reetam Ganguli Drew Barvir Ziv Levi Nam Nguyen Cyrille Najjar Shawn Filer Ben Ford Ahmed Omar Raj Tilwa Annie Xu Anupam Ghosal Chris Haoxin Xu Aziz Satarov Carrie Tam Hamza Farooq Max Morganroth Arhan Chhabra Ethan Ding Mark Laurie and many, many more on The ORCA Network

Who is going to be crowned the best university founded startup in the nation?? 110 Startups registered and we have it narrowed down to 5 Finalists to win the $150k Investment Live! Calling all Investors and Founders in the Austin Area to join us for this epic event of pitches and networking. Congrats to the Founders Representing their Universities: Stanford University - Carrie Tam University of Southern California - Dylan Lewis, Alexander Forgosh, Russell Tan Georgia Institute of Technology - Pranavkrishna Suresh Duke University - Abby Huang The University of Texas at Austin - Jonathan Naoukin 📅 SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, April 3rd @ 6pm CT Hosted on the vibrant UT Austin Campus Whether you're a startup enthusiast, investor, or student innovator, this is where you want to be. Seats are filling up fast! 📍 RSVP NOW to secure your spot! https://lnkd.in/gqmcUkfb Proud to be executing this event alongside Blake Hatten from Honors Fund!! #StartupCompetition #Innovation #UniversityStartups #VentureCapital #Networking #UTAustin #InvestInTomorrow