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# Investor Relations

Metal Investor Relations helps founders manage investor relationships between fundraising rounds. It turns occasional updates into a consistent process for sharing progress, understanding engagement, and preparing for future funding conversations.

<Info>
  Keep investors informed, understand their engagement, and build future investor demand before the next fundraising round begins.
</Info>

## What does the product do?

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Create Investor Updates" icon="pen">
    Write updates manually or draft them with AI using the company’s information, documents, progress, and recent achievements.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Improve the Story" icon="wand-magic-sparkles">
    Identify missing explanations, important metrics, and areas where the company narrative can be made clearer.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Measure Engagement" icon="eye">
    Track email delivery, opens, reading time, completion, and section-level engagement for authenticated views.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Understand Follow-on Opportunities" icon="rotate">
    Use investors’ historical investment behaviour as a signal for future fundraising conversations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Discover Warm Routes" icon="handshake">
    Find potential co-investors and introduction opportunities connected through existing investor relationships.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How does it work?

<Steps>
  <Step title="Add company context">
    Add the company’s information, documents, metrics, progress, and recent achievements.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create the update">
    Write the investor update manually or use Metal to create an AI-assisted draft.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Improve the narrative">
    Review recommendations for missing metrics, unclear explanations, and areas that need more context.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Send the update">
    Send the update to existing investors, prospective investors, and useful connectors.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review engagement">
    See who opened or viewed the update and how they engaged with it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Prioritize the next action">
    Identify the investors and relationships that require a follow-up, conversation, or introduction request.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="What problem does it solve?" icon="circle-exclamation">
    Investor relations often exist across emails, spreadsheets, presentations, and the founder’s memory. This makes communication inconsistent and makes it difficult to maintain investor trust and momentum.

    <CardGroup cols={2}>
      <Card title="Updates require too much work" icon="clock">
        Metal creates updates using the company’s information, documents, and founder input.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Numbers lack a clear story" icon="chart-line">
        Metal helps explain what changed, why it matters, and what should happen next.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Engagement is unclear" icon="eye">
        Delivery, email opens, and authenticated reading activity provide better visibility.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Investor relationships become cold" icon="snowflake">
        Regular updates keep the company visible to existing and prospective investors.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Follow-on potential is difficult to judge" icon="rotate">
        Historical investment behaviour helps founders prioritize future conversations.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Warm opportunities remain hidden" icon="link">
        Co-investor intelligence surfaces firms connected to existing investors.
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>

    <Note>
      Engagement and follow-on signals help founders prioritize conversations. They do not guarantee that an investor will respond or invest.
    </Note>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Who is it for and how does it help?" icon="users">
    Investor Relations is designed for founders who have recently raised, are between fundraising rounds, or are actively fundraising.

    Updates can be shared with:

    * Existing investors
    * Prospective investors
    * Investors who previously considered the company too early
    * Founders, operators, and other useful connectors

    <CardGroup cols={2}>
      <Card title="How it helps founders" icon="user">
        Spend less time preparing reports, communicate progress clearly, understand investor engagement, and begin the next round with warmer relationships.
      </Card>

      <Card title="How it helps investors" icon="building-columns">
        Receive consistent access to company progress and update history, making it easier to stay informed between fundraising conversations.
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>

    ## How is it different?

    <CardGroup cols={2}>
      <Card title="More than a fundraising platform" icon="rocket">
        Traditional fundraising platforms focus on finding investors and managing an active raise. Investor Relations maintains relationships and demonstrates company progress between fundraising rounds.
      </Card>

      <Card title="More than an AI email writer" icon="robot">
        Metal connects AI drafting with company context, metric analysis, distribution, engagement tracking, follow-on intelligence, and potential co-investor opportunities.
      </Card>
    </CardGroup>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>


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