3 Tips for Cold Emailing Potential Investors

📫 3 Tips for Cold Emailing Potential Investors +The Cold Email a Founder Used to Raise $500,000 From Mark Cuban

Hearing about the importance of connections for a successful fundraise can make founders feel like raising VC money is an insiders’ game.

But the reality is that investors are open to cold emails. Well-known companies such as Box, which provides cloud-based content-management tools and has a market capitalization of $3.68 B, were funded through cold email. (Mike Preus)

Box isn’t the only one. The founder of Factmata also used cold email to raise half a million dollars from Mark Cuban.

Cold-emailing is a crucial skill set for new founders to master.

So how do you do it?

Here are some basic tips:

1️⃣ Make sure you are targeting appropriate investors.

2️⃣ Write concise emails.

3️⃣ Be clear and specific in the body of the email.

For more details on each tip—and for a look at the email that the founder of Factmata used to raise $500,000 from Mark Cuban—see below. 👇

Have you tried networking through cold emailing? Let me know in the comments. 👇🗯️

#fundraising #venturecapital #entrepreneurship

Source: Martin Delaney