Thread by @yoheinakajima

I’m an outbound focused VC, meaning I reach out to most of the founders I talk to, not the other way around.

A lot of people ask me about my process. It’s not a secret. Here it is 👇

1/ I spend a lot of time on AngelList, ProductHunt, and am on many investor lists for accelerators. I have a Google Alert for “startup pitch competition”. Twitter is great too. I look at as many startups as I can find.

2/ I have a custom bookmarking tool to quickly save startups that peak my interest. It drops in my CRM and pings the Crunchbase API. I’ve tracked about 1000 in the last 6 months.

3/ I spend a few hours each week going through all my “new” startups, research them, add tags (industry, etc), and move them to one of three stages: interesting (might reach out), pass (decided against reaching out), or reference (they’ve raised too much for me).

4/ Every week, I go through my “interesting” list and reach out to a few startups. I do basic diligence before reaching out to make sure I’m interested, which save everyone time.

I might re-reach back out to startups who haven’t responded.

5/ Once I’m in touch with the founder, I jump on a Zoom. From there, it’s a diligence process that I’m still refining.

Hope that shed some light for those who were curious! Here’s more about our firm:

https://twitter.com/yoheinakajima/status/1354129782057779205