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Ask HN: How did you meet your VC
5 points by bluelightning2k on Feb 22, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Hi, I'm relatively experienced in software but have absolutely no idea how to meet a VC.

For background:

- I built a software company before & did $1M in sales.

- Me and my small team want to pivot to a better product/market

- The new product (pivoting to) automatically edits every sales meeting into a highlight-reel video & sends that as follow-up, for a guaranteed demo-deal conversion rate lift

- From the North of England not a VC hotspot

I have bootstrapped the new company with the old but need to meet a VC to get all of the way there and I have no idea how to get pitch meetings.

So I am really curious how did you meet your VCs or how do you meet a VC in general?




Warm introductions are the key. Find a couple of target funds and see who they recently invested in. Try to reach out to the founders of those companies for advice / chat. Ask if they can give you an introduction to one of the funds and give them a forwardable blurb with your deck. Once you get a meeting with a well-respected firm, they will likely be willing to introduce you to other VC firms.

This is just my 2 cents based on working as contractor at a VC in San Francisco. Like most things, there's many other ways to get your foot in the door.


what are you doing as a contractor at a VC firm?


1) get friends who know people with a lot of money 2) have rich parents and go to ivy league college 3) ??? 4) profit




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