Request Call
Targeting, the approach, preparation, the pipeline and the investor updates. You choose whether we take the first calls or you do.
Companies and funds whose investor conversations we ran.
“The outreach generated 44 investor meetings and saved me countless hours of unqualified calls.”
Jonathan WeinsFounder and CEO, PopMeals
Investors we booked meetings with, including
Collaborative FundSandbox IndustriesAlpha JWCSeaya VCTau VenturesLeverVCGTM FundSparkLabs
be
CreatorIQ
PopMeals
GORD
KLAYD
OnePulse
BREATHE
Perplexity
Viktor AI
Lane Health
Imperative VCEvery raise has the same shape. A long list, a great many first conversations, and a small number of investors who were ever going to move. The work is finding out which is which, and it lands on the person who can least afford the time.
VC outreach, LP outreach and a debt process are three different rooms, and a fund manager raising a vehicle needs none of what a company raising equity needs. Say which one you are in.
Everyone who writes an equity cheque at your stage. Reached through all five channels, not only the ones we already know.
The five channelsMost advisors run one. We run five, and the channel that opens a given door is rarely the one you would have guessed. Together they are what capital introduction looks like when it is run as a process.
Two systems we built in-house, not a third-party tool: a signal engine and our own investor database.
A fund closes. A mandate is published. A partner moves. An exit frees capital.
Our own database holds what each name has actually written cheques into, so a VC approach and an LP approach are two different letters. One template covers neither.
An introduction in the week the trigger fired gets answered. A quarter later it does not.
Pick a trigger.
Both run from week one of the mandate, on every outreach channel at once.
440+ direct investor and LP relationships, every one out of a closed transaction. Here is exactly how far that reaches.
Investors we know personally and meet regularly. Introductions happen at the relationship level.
Past the third ring the relationship ends. Most investor outreach ends with it. Ours is only getting started there.
We match your travel window against our investor network in that city, then book the meetings that fit your mandate.
Lead investors commit after they have sat across from you. Most outreach services never touch this lever.
Every city becomes a fundraising week of briefed meetings, back to back, with nothing in the calendar that did not ask to be there.
Optional, where the room justifies it. We choose the venue and the guest list; the costs are yours, billed at cost.
Every investor who has seen anything hears from you every 30 days, in an update we write and you approve.
On the list because thesis, ticket and stage match.
60Sequenced across three channels, timed to a signal.
24We see which pages were read, and for how long.
14Qualified and logged. Every objection written down.
7Data room open, questions tracked, terms in the room.
3ExampleAn illustrative update. The company, the figures and the counts are made up.
Hi Anna,
Quick month three note. The number I gave you in January was $2.1M ARR by summer. We are at $1.74M, four months in.
Best,
Marta
Bring the round and spectup will build this same pipeline against your list.
Discuss your raiseWe write both, and the pipeline is yours from day one.
You walk in knowing the objection before it is put to you.
Kept in the client room you have open from day one. Illustrative, not a client pipeline.
Same targeting, same preparation, same pipeline, same updates. What changes is who is in the conversations, and what it costs.
Strategy, materials, every first call, the pipeline and the terms. You hear about an investor once they want the next step.
Outreach, preparation, pipeline and investor updates are ours. The conversations, and the close, are yours.
Why option A converts. An opportunity brought by an advisor is read as an opportunity. The pitch is run by a desk that runs it every week. And a fifth pass in a row is your company, but our Tuesday.
Talk through which one fitsMonthly retainer+Success fee
Six monthly retainers while the outreach runs, then one success fee on capital raised.
Targeting, the approach across every channel, the first calls and the pipeline behind them. Flat for the term.
A percentage of capital raised, capped in the mandate. Paid only on capital that closes.
Open a row for the channels used, the meetings booked and what closed.
Series D. Creator marketing software.
Series B. FoodTech.
Series A. Robotics.
Different sizes, different instruments, different jurisdictions. The same desk on every one.
“From chaos to pipeline. Every intro hit our target list, every meeting was prepped.”
Outreach is one part of a raise. These are the mandates around it, and the page for a company whose answer is a transaction rather than capital.
An outreach mandate is months of one desk's attention, so we take a small number at a time.
Companies with revenue, and fund managers with a track record an LP can diligence. Sector is rarely the deciding factor; what follows is.
A company with revenue and a defined use of proceeds.
Pre-revenue and pre-product. That is a different job and we are not the right firm for it.
A fund manager raising a vehicle, a continuation fund or a co-invest sleeve, with a track record an LP can diligence.
No defined use of proceeds. If the raise has no shape, no investor gives it one.
A timeline that allows a real process, and materials we can get to diligence standard.
A raise that has to close in weeks. We would be taking a fee to fail.
A mandate to run the process: targeting, the approach, the pipeline and the updates, through to close.
An introduction-only arrangement. We run processes; we are not a contact list.
A transaction where it is clear which side we are on, and we are paid by that side.
Both sides of the same transaction. We are mandated by one side and paid by that side only.
A retainer alongside the success fee, because the work that produces a term sheet starts months before one exists.
Success fee only. A desk paid solely on close cannot afford the months of targeting, briefing and follow-up that get you there, and the ones who accept it are not the desks you want.
Not sure which column you are in? That is what the first call is for.
Discuss your raiseThirteen that come up on almost all of them.
Investor outreach is the process of identifying the right investors for a specific raise, approaching them, and converting that approach into meetings. Run as a service it covers targeting, the approach across several channels, the first conversations, the pipeline that records them, and the updates that keep every investor warm until they commit.
Capital introduction is the narrow version: a prime broker introduces a fund manager to allocators it already covers. Investor outreach builds the list from scratch, works for companies as well as funds, and stays in the process after the introduction.
A capital introducer brings a company or a fund manager in front of investors it already has relationships with, rather than handing over a list to work yourself. spectup does that out of 440+ relationships from closed transactions, and runs the targeting before the introduction and the pipeline after it.
Meetings, briefed. The list is yours to keep, but it is not the deliverable: a name you have to work yourself is a cost, not an asset.
Your choice, and it can change mid-mandate. Either spectup takes every first call, qualifies it, gets the NDA signed and opens the data room before anything reaches you, or the investor goes straight into your calendar and you are briefed first.
From 440+ direct investor and LP relationships out of closed transactions, then filtered by a signal engine watching 80+ triggers for the moment capital becomes allocatable: a fund closes, a mandate is published, a partner moves, an exit frees capital. The list is built for this raise, not pulled off a shelf, and you approve it before anyone is approached.
Both, as separate mandates, because they are separate rooms. VC outreach targets equity investors for a company. LP outreach targets allocators who commit to a fund, and an LP takes the meeting because of who is asking.
They stay on a 30-day update cadence. A pass this quarter is often a lead two quarters later.
No. A partner attends the call when you want one there, and stays in through terms, valuation and structure.
A monthly retainer plus a success fee on capital raised, both written into the mandate before the first investor is approached. No rate card: the figures follow the instrument, the size and the jurisdictions.
The target list, the pipeline with every note and objection, and the relationships. It all lives in a shared Notion room you have open from day one, so there is nothing to hand back.
Yes. Send the cities and the dates, and the outreach targets investors sitting in them.
spectup’s U.S.-related activity runs under SEC Rule 15a-6, through a chaperoning arrangement with a U.S. registered broker-dealer that is a FINRA and SIPC member.
We take the calls, or we book them and you do. One conversation covers which of the two fits, and what it costs.
Raise parameters and materials
A 30-minute call on fit and coverage
Written mandate proposal
Congratulations on Fund IV. You will be building the first cohort now, and we run a mandate that fits the thesis you just described. You backed two companies at this stage last quarter. Ours is the same shape, and the numbers are attached. You asked to be called when something in this sector reached revenue. It has, and I have ten minutes of detail and no deck. You and the partner both sat on the same board. One line from you puts this in front of them warm.
Other advisors license a database. We built both halves, so the moment and the judgement come from the same place.
-
Models, tooling and the compute under them
Payments, lending and the rails beneath
Clinical software, devices and diagnostics
Grid, transition and industrial energy
Hard science with a route to revenue
Recurring contracts and net retention
Automation on a working floor
Precision production and components
Development, and the capital behind it