SendVC Platform Update: You Approve Every Email

This is a changelog, not a guide. Here is what actually shipped on SendVC since our last platform update, and what each change does to the way you run a raise.

Short version: nothing leaves your account without your approval anymore, the interest tracking we promised last time is live, and matching will never contact the same investor twice on your behalf.

You approve every email before it sends

AI-generated no longer means auto-sent. Every generated email now lands in a pending queue on your dashboard and stays there until you act on it.

You can edit the subject line, the body, and the recipient address on any pending email. Emails that failed to send are editable too, so a bad address or a rejected send gets fixed and retried instead of quietly burning a slot.

Approving one email sends it immediately while the rest of the batch keeps waiting. That matters when a single investor is time-sensitive and the other forty are not.

Edit one email, apply it to the whole queue

Hand-editing fifty emails defeats the point of automation. So editing is now a template operation: rewrite one email until it sounds like you, save it as your template, and every pending email is regenerated from it.

The rewrite is not find-and-replace. Each email is generated again against your template using that investor's firm, focus areas, and portfolio companies, so your voice replaces ours without flattening the personalization. It runs in batches, so a queue of a hundred does not stall on a timeout.

Your saved template also becomes the default for future generation, including the automated monthly runs. Set it once and the next cycle already sounds right.

Interest tracking and the dashboard are live

Last update we listed interest tracking dashboards under "what is next." They shipped.

Every outreach email carries a tracked link. When an investor follows it, the click is recorded against that specific outreach row and you get a notification. The investor can also leave a name and a message on the page they land on, which arrives in the same place.

The submission dashboard lists every investor contacted, the send status of each email, and the timestamp of any interest shown. The point is to kill the parallel spreadsheet, which is where most founders lose track of a raise. The three-step flow from deck upload to send has not changed; you can just see inside it now.

Notification preferences and a pause switch

You choose what reaches your inbox. A daily digest that only sends when there was activity, a weekly summary, monthly run notifications, and an immediate alert when an investor shows interest are four separate toggles in dashboard settings.

Auto-send is now a toggle too. Switching it off pauses outbound while your subscription stays active, which is what you want when you have gone quiet to close a term sheet or your deck is mid-rewrite. Cancelling is no longer the only way to stop sending.

Matching: database first, AI second, never a repeat

Matching queries the verified investor database first and only falls back to AI web discovery when the database cannot fill your list. Verified records are the floor; AI-discovered investors are the overflow, not the default.

Industry terms now expand to related keywords before the query runs. A web3 streaming startup also matches investors tagged blockchain, crypto, media, and video, instead of failing an exact-string match and falling through to a generic list.

Anyone you have already contacted is excluded from every future run. This is the change that makes leaving monthly automation on a reasonable decision rather than a reputational risk: month two reaches new investors, not the same inbox again.

Investors found by AI discovery are written back into the database and deduplicated on email address, so every run adds to the catalog instead of discarding what it found.

Your deck now feeds the industry classifier

Industry classification used to read only the short description you typed at upload. It now also reads the extracted text of your uploaded deck PDF, which produces a much better classification when the description is two lines long.

Extraction is deliberately best-effort. Decks above 20 MB are skipped, extraction runs under a hard timeout, and every failure path falls back to description-only analysis. A difficult PDF can cost you match quality; it can never block your submission.

Two things we shipped outside the product

Not everything should cost money. The free VC list is fifty active VC firms with stage, sector focus, check size, and each firm's own contact route. Free account, no card, no trial.

We also published three free pitch deck templates as editable PowerPoint files. Each slide carries fill-in prompts and speaker notes explaining what an investor is actually looking for on that slide, which is the part most template packs leave out.

What has not changed

Plans are still a monthly contact quota rather than a seat licence, and unused quota does not roll over. The current tiers and limits live on the pricing page.

We still take no commission on anything you raise. And if you are weighing this against the other tools in the category, we keep an honest comparison of investor outreach tools that covers where each one falls short, ours included.