Donnager AI Secures $1.5 Million in Pre-Seed Funding to Revolutionize Cold Outreach Personalization for Startup Founders

by Communitech
June 10, 2025

Donnager AI officially launched in Toronto’s bustling AI startup ecosystem, aiming to tackle a significant challenge for founders: creating personalized cold outreach messages at scale. The company emerged from stealth mode with a $1.5 million pre-seed investment led by a well-known global consulting firm and supported by selected angel investors.

The Donnager AI platform is designed to help founders and sales teams develop highly personalized introductory messages. By analyzing potential leads' LinkedIn profiles, company websites, blog posts, and podcasts, the platform generates customized icebreakers intended to enhance response rates significantly. Nagaraj Kuppuswamy, co-founder and CEO of Donnager AI, emphasized that while technical founders create exceptional products, they often find it difficult to engage in meaningful conversations with decision-makers. Traditional outreach methods are usually either overly generic or require extensive manual effort, prompting the creation of Donnager, which aims to function like a scalable, human-like assistant.

The inception of Donnager was driven by a challenge faced by the founder of Beaconer, a cybersecurity startup. They encountered low response rates to cold emails and found the existing tools for personalization to be lacking in quality and authenticity. Leveraging insights gained from building an internal large language model (LLM) for crafting founder-style introductions, Donnager AI was developed to help founders achieve deeper personalization in their outreach efforts. By focusing on more than just LinkedIn, the platform mines data from various sources, including blogs and news articles, to create authentic and engaging messages.

With its funding in place, Donnager AI is set to grow. The company plans to expand its engineering team, enhance AI functionalities, and increase its market presence across North America. Recruitment efforts for roles in engineering, AI research, and customer success are currently underway.

Kuppuswamy succinctly outlined the vision behind Donnager AI: to empower founders, particularly those with technical backgrounds, with a sales tool that feels more like a human partner than an automated system. The flourishing AI landscape in Toronto, bolstered by an ample talent pool and robust startup support networks, positions Donnager AI to become a prominent figure in the evolving landscape of personalization technologies.

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