Metal

Metal, previously known as Pluto Technologies and Apollo Group, operates within the B2B industry, focusing on providing innovative solutions to founders engaged in fundraising. The company offers a customizable investor CRM platform, which includes tools like Investor Discovery, Investor Analytics, Intro Pathways, and Fundraising CRM. These tools are part of Metal’s broader technology stack, which also features VC Torch, VC Library, Round Enablers, and Newton, an intelligent pipeline tool designed to guide the fundraising process. Metal’s platform is data-driven, enabling founders to identify the most relevant investors and optimal introduction pathways, thereby adopting a more intentional approach to fundraising. The company also provides a definitive guidebook on fundraising through its VC Library and allows founders to hire specialists for managing round operations or obtaining strategic guidance through its Round Enablers service. Having raised $120M across five venture financing rounds in a frontier market, Metal is backed by YCombinator and serves over 50 founders. The company operates both remotely and partly remotely, and is currently in an early stage of development. Metal’s mission is encapsulated in its ongoing development of an ‘operating system’ for fundraising, aimed at simplifying the capital-raising journey for other founders, a solution born from the founders’ own initial challenges in learning to raise capital.