The Psychology of Cold Email in VC
A cold email to an investor is a strange piece of writing. In two hundred words, to a stranger, you are asking for their time, their money and their belief in something that barely exists yet. Most fo...
Subject Line Science: Investor Outreach
An investor decides whether to open your email in about the time it takes to blink. Before your traction, your team, or your beautifully crafted pitch gets a single second of attention, one line of te...
2026 Investor Outreach Benchmark Report
Fundraising is an outreach game before it is a pitching game. Before a single investor hears your story, hundreds of messages have to land, get opened, earn a reply, and convert into a meeting. Yet mo...
Fundable vs Angels Partners: What Gets Investors to Actually Reply?
When it comes to fundraising, most founders think it’s all about reaching as many investors as possible. So founders set out contacting as many VCs as they can in the hope that someone will enga...
5 Proven Ways to Get Warm Introductions With Investors (We’ve Tried Them All)
When I started fundraising, I hit a wall almost immediately. Every founder I knew kept saying the same thing, "You need a warm intro." But no one ever explained how to actually get one, especially if ...
How to Write Cold Emails
Securing funding is a vital part of the startup ecosystem, and one of the most polar ways to do this is by contacting Venture Capitalists (VCs). However, due to the massive volume of startups doing th...
How to Write an Email Investors will Actually Read in 10 Steps
Are you struggling to get an introduction with an investor? Well, what if we told you that to secure a meeting, you don’t necessarily need an introduction. Instead, a well-crafted, succinct and...
