Capital Pad / Case study

    Investor and sponsor acquisition for a private equity co-investment platform

    Capital Pad · US · Platform connecting independent sponsors with accredited investors on PE co-investments

    Cold email · Google Ads · Landing pages · LinkedIn retargeting

    169Google Ads sign-ups across two quarters
    15.3%cold email reply rate
    4xbetter conference outreach replies

    The challenge

    Capital Pad serves two audiences on one platform: deal sponsors and accredited investors. Both are small, hard to reach and wary of cold outreach. They needed steady sign-ups from both sides at a cost per sign-up that made sense.

    What we built

    Cold email system

    Smartlead across 18 mailboxes, with separate tracks for sponsors (searchers, independent sponsors, conference attendees) and investors. Non-repliers get re-engaged with fresh angles.

    Conference-driven lists

    Event attendee lists turned into targeted sequences. These reply at 20–25%, against 5–6% for cold lists.

    Google Ads sign-up funnel

    Search campaigns optimised for platform sign-ups, with conversion tracking wired into the product.

    Landing pages

    Sponsor pages consolidated into one independent sponsor page, with old URLs redirected.

    LinkedIn layer

    HeyReach campaigns that follow up with website visitors.

    The results

    • 169 platform sign-ups from Google Ads across two quarters
    • 15.3% cold email reply rate, up from 9.5% the quarter before
    • 2,267 emails to 713 new decision-makers in one quarter, 109 replies
    • Conference outreach replies 4x better than cold lists

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