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This week, something wild happened.
VC Boom hit #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
On our first attempt.
I am still slightly stunned.
For those of you who have been reading along, this is the AI fundraising tool I have partnered with and written about over the last two months. The one I used to run a $2M raise step by step, deck score to first reply, in front of you.
Today it has a name, a launch, and very real numbers.
What 30 days looked like
870 founders signed up
1,270 decks scored
$95M raised by founders using it 🤯 (check out testimonials)
#1 on Product Hunt
Hunted by Chris Messina (the guy who invented the hashtag and Silicon Valley legend)
Users from every continent
Paid conversions every hour
I keep refreshing the dashboard like a kid checking Christmas morning.
This is what build-in-public actually feels like when it works.
Why this is resonating
The pattern I saw on repeat for 8 years as a VC.
Founders struggling to raise rarely had worse ideas.
They had worse access.
Wrong pitch. Wrong outreach. Wrong investors.
They ended up spamming thousands. Or paying $20-30K to placement agents doing subpar work, because their storytelling wasn’t ready and they had no warm path to the right partners.
VC Boom is the intelligence layer that fixes that.
Score your deck across 7 investor dimensions in under 90 seconds.
Meet 100 right-fit investors filtered from 47,000, each with a one-line reason they fit.
Raise with personalized cold emails sent from your own inbox.
You drive it. You approve every send. What you raise is yours.
The 18-day window
Here is what nobody is saying out loud.
There are roughly 18 days left before VCs go silent for summer.
If you are sitting on a deck telling yourself you will “start outreach soon,” that window closes mid-July and does not really reopen until September.
Add SpaceX IPO. Add YC Demo Day next Tuesday. Add the fact that the Club keeps shrinking, capital is more concentrated, and VCs are deploying less.
The founders who tighten their deck and start outreach this week catch the window. The rest spend July & August emailing into a void.
A few things I want to share
Now that VC Boom is in the wild, I want to keep going on a few fronts. Each one is a way you can be part of this:
If you are raising right now: Score your deck free. 100 matches, personalized emails, first reply typically inside 48 hours. No credit card. If it works for you, you become a paid user. Promo code CODE20 for readers here.
If you know founders who are raising: we just opened a 30% affiliate program. Pass them your link. They raise. You earn. Boom 💥
If you run an accelerator or incubator: Equip your portfolio with the partner program. Better tools means your founders raise faster than their cohort competitors. That is just good math.
If you are a VC fund: The new VC partner dashboard shows your entire portfolio’s raise in one view. Deck scores. Raise-readiness flags. Outreach velocity. Reply rates across every portco. Your partner meeting prep, ready before you ask for it.
Why I am building this
We are in a moment.
Claude and GPT have democratized product and company creation. Anyone can build now. Which means the moat is no longer the product.
The moat is distribution. Marketing. Fundraising. Knowing how to get in front of the right people with the right message at the right time.
That is the actual game. And right now most founders are playing it with a butter knife.
My mission with VC Boom is simple. Help founders waste less time. Help VCs find their ideal matches faster. Make this whole industry less of a black box.
Final thought
I will keep building in public.
I’m also building distribution (content, LinkedIn, Substack). And I love sharing the ins and outs.
That means radical openness to ideas, suggestions, critiques. If you see a feature missing, tell me. If you want to talk affiliate, partner, or just compare notes on the raise market right now, reply to this email. I read every one.
The next 18 days are going to be wild for founders raising right now.
Let’s go.
—Yoann
P.S. If you want to see what the build-in-public journey looked like up close, the Product Hunt thread has all the storytelling, the questions, the live feedback, and Chris Messina’s beautiful framing of why the timing is critical. Worth a scroll.