When Metronome secured its $50 million Series C round, it might have looked like just another SaaS company riding the usage-based pricing wave. But to those using our Projected to Raise (P2R) tool, the outcome was no surprise. Metronome had already been flagged as a top contender for a significant capital raise — days before the news broke.

The real story here isn’t about Metronome. It’s about the investors who weren’t looking in the right place at the right time — because they didn’t have the right predictive analytics tool. Missing a raise like this isn’t just unfortunate. It’s a missed opportunity in a market that’s already too opaque, too slow, and too fragmented for comfort. Predictive analytics changes that.

What Is Projected to Raise?

Projected to Raise is our proprietary machine learning pipeline that predicts which private companies are likely to raise capital in the next six months. By analyzing signals from millions of private entities, it delivers actionable, high-confidence leads for fundraising and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) before they happen.

The tool runs daily, incorporates a wide variety of data sources, and is driven by a deep learning ensemble that surfaces predictions with impressive precision — above 86% in the U.S., and 77% globally. For dealmakers, that’s more than just impressive, it’s a major competitive advantage.

Signals You’ll Wish You’d Seen First

Our predictive analytics tool’s track record speaks for itself. In just the past few months, it successfully predicted these key transactions:

In each case, our tool identified the companies ahead of the deal. And in each case, the window for investors to act was narrow — if they even saw it open.

Why Traditional Sourcing No Longer Cuts It

Most investors are stuck relying on antiquated deal sourcing: manual research, public databases, tipoffs. It’s slow, siloed, and often wrong. In contrast, predictive analytics:

  • Processes vast data in 30 minutes.
  • Surfaces niche companies preparing to raise capital or enter deals
  • Delivers interpretability, showing why a company is predicted to raise, not just that it will.

The old way costs time. And time – in dealmaking – costs deals.

Market Trends and How We Spot Them

While we built this tool to forecast capital raises, its utility extends far beyond. It’s equally valuable in spotting M&A targets, uncovering sector momentum, and identifying market inflection points.

Altus Consulting didn’t raise a dime — it got acquired by Accenture. Yet the tool still caught it. Why? Because the model sees fundraising and acquisitions as part of the same continuum: capital formation. Whether it’s equity, debt, or consolidation, the same early indicators apply. Smart investors will see this flag in our system as a reason to reach out or form contacts at these companies that are flagged as projected to raise months in advance.

And it’s built by and for deal professionals. Investors can filter by geography, funding history, similarity to known targets, and more — surfacing hundreds of high-confidence companies per search.

Investment Intelligence Tool

Our Projected to Raise tool isn’t a dashboard add-on or a flashy toy for technophile analysts. It’s an investment intelligence engine — one that gives you early, accurate, and actionable insights in a market where timing is everything.

So the real question isn’t why to use our projected to raise tool. It’s: Can you afford not to use it? Because while others are waiting for a press release, you could already be closing the deal. 

Want to learn more details about it? Take a look at our white paper on the topic or reach out to us.