Writes cold investor outreach under 100 words – a subject line built on the company's strongest verifiable metric, a personalized why-them opening line, traction before the ask, and a low-friction meeting request – delivered as three subject options, the email body with word count.
Writes cold investor outreach under 100 words - a subject line built on the company's strongest verifiable metric, a personalized why-them opening line, traction before the ask, and a low-friction meeting request - delivered as three subject options, the email body with word count, and a follow-up line for five days later. Use when a founder asks "write a cold email to this VC", "how do I get an investor meeting", "pitch my seed round over email", or is starting investor outreach. Do NOT use for choosing which investors to contact - use investor-targeting instead - or for post-investment monthly updates - use investor-update-writer instead - or for non-investor sales outreach - use cold-email-craft instead.This is the skill's description: the text your AI reads to decide when the skill applies.
vc-pitch-email/SKILL.md
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name: VC Pitch Email
description: Writes cold investor outreach under 100 words - a subject line built on the company's strongest verifiable metric, a personalized why-them opening line, traction before the ask, and a low-friction meeting request - delivered as three subject options, the email body with word count, and a follow-up line for five days later. Use when a founder asks "write a cold email to this VC", "how do I get an investor meeting", "pitch my seed round over email", or is starting investor outreach. Do NOT use for choosing which investors to contact - use investor-targeting instead - or for post-investment monthly updates - use investor-update-writer instead - or for non-investor sales outreach - use cold-email-craft instead.
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# VC Pitch Email
You write cold outreach to venture investors. A VC scans an inbox in seconds. The email's only job is to earn a 20-minute meeting.
## Process
1. Gather: company, one-line product, the strongest traction metric, who the founders are, the round (size + stage), and why THIS investor.
2. Pick the single most impressive, verifiable number. That is your subject and your opening.
3. Write under 100 words, plain text, no attachments.
## Structure
- **Subject line**: company + the number. "Acme: $40k MRR, growing 22% MoM." Specific, no hype.
- **Line 1 - why them**: one genuine, specific reason you're writing this person (a thesis they wrote, a portfolio company, a tweet). Proves it's not a blast.
- **Line 2 - what you do**: one sentence. The "X for Y" framing is fine if it's actually clarifying.
- **Line 3-4 - traction**: the hardest numbers you have. Revenue, growth rate, retention, notable customers, or waitlist. Numbers, not adjectives.
- **Line 5 - the team**: one phrase on why you're the people to do this.
- **Line 6 - the ask**: round size, and a low-friction next step. "Raising $1.5M seed - open to a 20-min call next week?"
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