A step-by-step system to build a pipeline of warm investor intros, plus a fill-in-the-blank blurb your introducers can forward in 5 seconds.

Hey, Geri here.

A quick reminder of who's writing this: I spent 5 years as a VC at one of the leading funds in Southeast Europe. I reviewed thousands of ideas, sat through hundreds of pitches, and made plenty of intros myself.

So why this resource? Cold outreach to investors barely works. The investors you actually want are flooded with inbound from strangers. A warm intro skips that queue entirely, because it arrives with borrowed trust. And the goal of this resource is to make warm intros easy as a piece of cake. 🍰

Now to the resource.

Part 1: Build Your Warm Intro System

Main goals: Map everyone who could introduce you. Build a clean list of relevant funds. Make yourself effortless to introduce.

Map your introducers

• [ ] List every person who might know people at VC funds: past colleagues, friends, mentors, advisors, service providers (lawyers, accountants), other founders
• [ ] For each one, note which funds or investors they might realistically know

💡 Who makes for the best introducer?

1. A founder in the fund's own portfolio
2. Another founder the investor is close to
3. A mentor or advisor in the investor's orbit
4. Another VC, but only if they genuinely can't invest themselves (wrong stage or sector). If they could have invested and passed you on instead, it’s a red flag.
5. Service providers who work with funds

Build your fund list

• [ ] Build a list of 100+ funds that match your stage, geography, and industry
• [ ] For each fund, confirm they're actively investing (rule of thumb: their latest fund was raised within the last ~5 years)

⚠️ A list of 10,000 funds will bring you nothing if these are not relevant for you.

Mine LinkedIn for hidden introducers

• [ ] Open each fund on your list on LinkedIn
• [ ] Check whether you share mutual connections with anyone at the fund
• [ ] If a mutual connection looks like a credible introducer, add them to your introducer list