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We’re pleased to share that Raylu is SOC 2 compliant, reflecting our alignment with the AICPA Trust Services Criteria for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

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Raylu is not a shared deal feed. Your theses, lists, and outreach stay yours. Here is how origination stays proprietary.

Raylu raises an $8M Series A led by HighlandX to build the platform for Deal Engineering in private markets.

At Raylu, I've always felt that calling what we do "deal sourcing" massively undersells it. Recently, I finally put the right name to it: Deal Engineering. It captures what we're really building: we're not just finding companies faster - we're designing, building, and optimizing entire deal flows end-to-end, so investors can go from idea to signed deal with a level of precision and leverage that simply didn't exist before.

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The funds that win the next cycle will run AI across origination, mapping, diligence, and outreach. Here is what great looks like.

Raylu adopts TurboPuffer to run millions of company-level vector databases for deeper private-market intelligence.

Raylu migrates its agent infrastructure to Temporal, powering tens of thousands of simultaneous research tasks.

We're excited to share that Raylu now integrates directly with Gmail and Outlook

Today, Raylu, the leading AI platform for private market investors, announced its official integration with Affinity, the relationship intelligence CRM trusted by thousands of investment firms globally. The integration connects Raylu's AI agents directly with Affinity so PE and VC teams can automate market mapping, research, and outreach while keeping workflows in their CRM.

The private markets are undergoing a quiet revolution. As competition intensifies, data explodes, and resource constraints persist, leading investors are turning to AI not as a buzzword, but as a force multiplier. At Raylu, we work with top-tier private equity, growth equity, and venture capital firms who are using AI to transform sourcing, diligence, and outreach. Below are real-world examples of how the smartest investors in the world are using Raylu's AI agents to drive a lasting edge.

The private investment landscape has traditionally thrived on relationships, intuition, and meticulous fundamental analysis. Historically, successful deals hinged upon deep due diligence, extensive networking, and the instinctive judgment of experienced professionals. But with artificial intelligence now taking center stage, a provocative new question emerges: Could private markets soon operate more like quantitative hedge funds, driven by algorithms rather than purely fundamental approaches? Or will the human touch remain irreplaceable?

The battle between large funds and their smaller counterparts has long been dictated by access—access to capital, talent, and proprietary deal flow. Historically, scale has been the ultimate advantage. Big funds have enjoyed deep research teams, cutting-edge infrastructure, and networks that smaller funds could only dream of. But in an era where AI is rewriting the rules of private market investing, the question looms: will this technology further entrench the dominance of mega-funds, or could it be the great equalizer?

Private markets are evolving—AI-driven investing is the future. Raylu delivers speed, precision & scalability. Stay ahead or risk falling behind. Try Raylu now.

AI or obsolescence? Private market investing is evolving fast—Raylu delivers unmatched speed, insights & deal execution. Stay ahead or risk falling behind

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Private market investing is evolving fast. Stay ahead with Raylu—AI-driven deal flow, insights, & efficiency to outpace competitors. Don't get left behind