Every founder gets the same advice before their first raise: find a warm intro.
That works if you went to Stanford or sat next to a partner at your last job. Everyone else loses three weeks asking friends of friends for favours while the runway shrinks.
Meanwhile, 352 investors have put their names in a public database saying they want your cold pitch. Each one filled in the form personally, listing the sectors they back, their cheque size, their stage, whether they lead, and how many of their investments started with a cold email.
That last column changes how you should run your outreach. Here are the first 18 rows, cleaned up and colour-coded:
Inside today’s premium edition:
▫️ The full base: all 352 investors, linked
▫️ The pitch order that the data points to, and why most founders get it backwards
▫️ The cold-deal leaderboard: the investors who have funded strangers most often
▫️ Five filters that cut 352 names to a shortlist you can work this week
▫️ A five-line cold email built from the fields in the base, a filled-in example and our full Investor Outreach System
▫️ 7,900+ more investors across eight lists in our investor lists library, from 1,503 US early-stage investors to 903 European seed funds and 2,500 SaaS angels
▫️ Our pitch deck library, including 50 decks that raised $380M+ and Synthesia’s 18-slide deck
▫️ Our financial model library, including the cash runway model and the SaaS financial model
▫️ Our full resource library, with the AI deck review tool and the Claude investor list engine
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