Thread by @The_SaadJamal

How to raise an angel/pre-seed round for your startup? Step-by-step guide & free Fundraising OS. Won't discuss the obvious. 🧵🧵

1. Prepare a list of angel investors who are either sector agnostic or active in your space. Look for recent funding in your space to discover them.

2. Divide the list into 3 parts.

A. Dream Investors
B. Potential Investors
C. Comfortable Investors- VC/founder/angel friends + investors you don't care whether they invest or not :)

3. Use a CRM or an equivalent to track all the investor's outreach. Read till last if you want my Fundraising OS on Notion for free.

4. Look for warm intros to all of them. Preferably from portfolio founders. Start networking.

5. Start with Common Investors. Keep pitching & refine your pitch, business, product, etc based on feedback.

Note: You may also get some commitments here too. However, probably these are family & friends betting on 'you'. Don't mistake it for the validation of your startup's funding potential.

6. When you're ready for fundraising, start with Potential Investors.

7. As you get commitments, start reaching out to Dream investors.

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PS (for investors): We're raising our pre-seed round for Serri. We've started receiving commitments from some of the coolest entrepreneurs & angel investors like @Rishav96agarwal (Founder @picxele), @roshanvadassery (Founder @Permissionless), and @morisadam (Founder @koshurstore)

We'll close the round at $ 500k. DM me if you're active in our space :)

Serri is a Harvard-alum funded B2B2C SaaS startup solving for 100X efficient member discovery, personalized community outreach & insights for communities using AI-search assistant plug-ins.

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