Run your raise around who actually moves the round.
A raise is the most legible goal there is and the worst-served by a contact list. Tend organizes the people you already know around closing the round — who has a real path to it, what to send them, and which conversations are quietly going nowhere.
It even tells you who not to talk to.Free to start — no card, and about 4 goal audits included so you can run one. The $49 plan makes them recurring — 200 credits a month — and adds the daily brief.
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A raise is a pipeline, not a contact list
Name the round and Tend ranks everyone in your history by real leverage on it — who can write, who can introduce, who has done it for a company like yours — and hands you the next move for each.
- Warm paths to the funds you want, through people you already know
- Founders in your network whose investors are your targets
- Stages you name yourself — Intro sent → Pitch → Diligence → Term sheet
Know which threads are dead before they cost you a month
A raise fails slowly. Tend reads the replies, so a polite decline stops looking like momentum — and the investors who won't revisit this round stop taking up your attention.
- Reads real replies — a pass proposes “Dead”, not “advance”
- Flags the stalled thread you keep meaning to chase
- Says honestly when your network can't reach the round yet
It reads the history you already have — you never hand-log
Email, calendar and LinkedIn flow in on their own. That's what makes the ranking real rather than a guess: every claim points at a conversation you actually had.
- Gmail, Outlook, or any IMAP mailbox including iCloud
- LinkedIn threads, view-triggered — never background-scraped
- If Tend can't show the receipt, it doesn't say it
Three steps, and the first one is the only setup
Tend is a new kind of tool, so here's the whole mechanic in plain terms.
Connect your mail, calendar and LinkedIn
Tend reads what you already have — email, your calendar, and your LinkedIn conversations — and builds the relationship history itself. You never hand-log a thing.
Name the round you're closing
“Close the seed by December,” with a definition of done and a date. Tend can sharpen a vague one into a specific one by asking you a few questions.
Work the ladder it hands back
People ranked by leverage on the round, a next move for each with the receipt attached, drafts in your voice — and the threads to let go.
I'm building the thing I wish I'd had when I was raising.
I started Tend the day I caught myself asking why a reminder app wanted me to “check in” with an investor every 30 days. Toward what? The tools all knew who I knew and when we last spoke — none of them knew what I was trying to do.
Tend is not raising, and this page isn't a fundraising tool sold by someone who has never run one. It's the audit I run every morning on my own network, pointed at the goal you happen to be chasing.
The goal changes. The network compounds.
A raise completes — that's the point of it. The same mechanic runs whatever comes next, and the relationship history you built closing this round carries straight into hiring the team it paid for.
The warmest path to your round is already in your inbox.
Connect your mail, name the round, and see the ladder. Free to start — no card, and about 4 goal audits included so you can run one. The $49 plan makes them recurring — 200 credits a month, or $39/month billed annually — and adds the daily brief.