Updated August 30, 2026
Raising a round? Your investor list is already in your LinkedIn.
Most founders start fundraising by building a spreadsheet of strangers. The faster path is the network you already have: the angels you met at demo days, the VCs who liked a post two years ago, the operators who can intro you. wait who? finds them.
The fundraising problem nobody warns you about
You do not have an investor problem, you have a memory problem. Over the years you connected with people at demo days, accelerator events, and dinners. Some of them became angels. Some joined funds. Some now work three desks away from the partner who leads your stage. LinkedIn knows all of this. You do not, because nobody can hold 2,000 connections in their head.
So founders default to the cold spreadsheet: scrape a list of 300 seed funds, guess emails, get a 2% reply rate, and burn three weeks. Meanwhile the warm intro that would have taken one message sits forgotten on page 40 of their connections.
What wait who? actually does for a raising founder
- Pulls in your whole network, connections and followers, in one sync, and ranks everyone against the "Raising a round" goal: investors, angels, and founders who have raised before float to the top.
- Maps your network across 15 industries, so "who do I know in fintech that a fintech fund would want to hear about" is one click, not an afternoon.
- Shows who engaged with your recent posts. An investor who liked your launch post is not cold, and you should know their name before you open the fundraise.
- Answers questions in plain language: ask "who in my network works in venture capital" or "who should I tell about the round first" and get names from your own data, with the reason attached.
- Drafts the first message in your voice for each person: an investor-intro draft that references something real about them, under 50 words, with a soft ask. You edit, you send.
- Shows the real connection date, so "we connected back in 2023 after the Slush party" is accurate, not guessed.
A realistic week one
Day one: connect LinkedIn, pick your goal, let the sync run while you make coffee. You get your network ranked, split by industry, with the investor-shaped people at the top. Most founders find 30 to 80 people they had genuinely forgotten: an ex-colleague now doing angel checks, a scout at a fund, two founders one round ahead who can intro upward.
Day two to five: work the top of the list, five messages a day, every one drafted for you and edited by you. Not "I am raising, want to invest?" but "you were at the demo day where we showed the ugly prototype; the thing works now and I would love 20 minutes." Replies come because the context is real.
Ongoing: when someone new connects after your launch post, they show up under "Connected with you this week" and you can ask the Intelligence tab where they fit into the raise.
How it compares to the usual approaches
| Approach | Cost | Reply quality | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold investor spreadsheet | Free plus ~3 weeks of your time | Low: you are one of 400 decks that month | No warmth, no context, no memory of you |
| Asking your co-founder who they know | Free | High but tiny | Human memory caps out around 150 people; your networks hold thousands |
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator | About 100 euros/month | Medium | A different job: finding people you have not met yet. Pairs well with wait who?, which works the people you already have |
| wait who? | 27 euros/month, 7 days free | High: everyone on the list already knows you | Only covers your own network, by design |
What this costs, in plain words
One plan, 27 euros a month, everything included, 7-day free trial with your card upfront and nothing charged if you cancel. The month you spend fundraising with it costs less than one coffee meeting in Amsterdam, and the list it surfaces is yours to keep working.
Questions people ask
Does wait who? find investors who are not in my network?
No. wait who? works only on your own LinkedIn network: your connections and followers. That is a deliberate limit. Warm paths convert far better than cold lists, and most founders have more investor-adjacent contacts than they think. If you need a database of strangers, you want a prospecting database, not wait who?.
Will it message investors automatically?
No. wait who? drafts messages and you decide what to send. Nothing goes out without you clicking send, and it never posts on your behalf.
How does it know who is an investor?
It ranks your connections against your goal using their LinkedIn headline, company, and title: words like investor, partner, venture, angel, fund, and seed, matched as whole words. It is a ranking to start from, not a verdict. You will still recognize people the ranking misses, which is why the full list stays browsable.
What does it cost while I am fundraising?
One plan at 27 euros a month with a 7-day free trial, card upfront, cancel in one click. It includes 150 AI credits a month; a question about your network costs 3 credits and a drafted message costs 1. Most founders raising a round stay well inside the included credits.
Is it safe to connect my LinkedIn while raising?
wait who? reads your connections, messages, and post engagement to build your ranked list, and only writes when you explicitly send a message you approved. It stays within LinkedIn's own rate limits, syncs weekly rather than hammering the API, and you can disconnect any time.
See your investor list in about 5 minutes
7 days free, card upfront, nothing charged if you cancel. Connect LinkedIn, pick "Raising a round" as your goal, and your ranked list is waiting after the first sync.
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