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investor-outreach

Draft cold emails, warm intro blurbs, follow-ups, update emails, and investor communications for fundraising. Use when the user wants outreach to angels, VCs, strategic investors, or accelerators and needs concise, personalized, investor-facing messaging.

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About investor-outreach

The 'investor-outreach' skill is designed to streamline and professionalize communication with investors during fundraising processes. It helps users craft concise, personalized, and action-oriented messages to angels, venture capitalists, strategic investors, and accelerators. By enforcing structured messaging and focusing on proof over adjectives, this skill addresses common challenges in investor communication, such as vague requests, overlong emails, and generic praise that fails to resonate with targeted recipients.

This skill provides a comprehensive framework for drafting cold emails, warm introductions, follow-ups, and investor updates. Key capabilities include generating subject lines, personalized openers, concise pitches, explicit asks, and credible sign-offs. It guides users in leveraging relevant personalization sources like portfolio companies, public statements, mutual connections, or clear market/product fits. Additionally, it enforces strict quality rules, ensuring all messaging avoids generic language, maintains clarity, and respects the investor-specific structure. Follow-up sequences are recommended with defined cadences to maximize response rates while avoiding overcommunication.

Use cases for this skill include preparing outreach campaigns to new investors, crafting warm intros via mutual connections, sending follow-up emails after meetings, and providing updates during ongoing fundraising processes. It is primarily targeted at founders, startup teams, and fundraising professionals who need to communicate efficiently with investors while maintaining a high level of personalization and professionalism. By adhering to best practices in investor communication, users can increase engagement, demonstrate credibility, and facilitate meaningful next steps in their fundraising journey.

FAQ

When should I activate the investor-outreach skill?

Activate this skill when drafting cold emails, warm introduction requests, follow-ups after meetings, or investor updates. It is suitable whenever concise, personalized investor-facing communication is required.

Can this skill integrate with my existing brand voice?

Yes. If the user's voice matters, you should first use the 'brand-voice' tool and then apply its VOICE PROFILE. The investor-outreach skill maintains its structured messaging while reusing the established voice.

What are the limitations or hard bans I should be aware of?

Avoid language such as generic praise, vague founder adjectives, begging phrases, soft closing questions, or overused expressions like 'I'd love to connect'. All messages must be personalized, concise, and contain concrete proof and explicit asks.

Does this skill handle follow-up scheduling?

Yes, it provides a default follow-up cadence: initial outbound on day 0, a short follow-up on day 4 or 5, and a final follow-up on day 10 to 12. Longer sequences require explicit user instruction.

What types of personalization sources are recommended?

Recommended sources include relevant portfolio companies, public theses or posts, mutual connections, and clear market or product alignment with the investor's focus. Drafts without this context should be marked as needing personalization.

Install investor-outreach

Download and extract the skill files to your .claude/skills/ directory.

Quick Setup:

  1. Copy the skill folder to .claude/skills/
  2. Claude will automatically detect and use the skill