Raylu

Raylu is the AI origination engine for private markets. Founded in 2022 by three friends who left traditional finance jobs to build something transformative, the New York City-based firm builds software that helps investment firms source and qualify deals. The Raylu Platform gives deal teams market-wide reach to see more of the market, qualify opportunities faster, and move first on opportunities aligned with their investment theses. Customers report 50% less time from thesis to deployed capital and three times more founder meetings.

The company serves over 50 funds whose customers collectively hold more than $500 billion in assets under management. It raised $8 million in a Series A round led by HighlandX. Technical work spans artificial intelligence, machine learning applied to financial services, and enterprise software for investment workflows.

Roles at Raylu span AI strategy, enterprise sales, customer success, and product design, with close collaboration across engineering, product, and go-to-market functions. The firm values both technical excellence and domain expertise in private markets, and describes its working environment as reflecting the intensity and ambition of the AI industry while maintaining the rigor expected by institutional investors. Its stated mission is to automate the hardest work in investing; it holds that AI does not replace investor judgment but amplifies it.