“I contacted all the Vcs in the world, twice” cold outreach can work but the email needs to be an absolute bullseye to the exact VC in the world who already has your hypothesis and wants to learn more. But even if it’s love at first sight, you still need momentum with other VCs to get them to pull the trigger, which means you need interest from generalists, which means you need a few dozen warm intros. Broadly intros at seed stage come from angels who have already invested or are close to investing. Getting first checks from angels is a less hard game (because they likely have deep technical knowledge of your space and can therefore recognize the brilliance of your team and product, see the staggering opportunity you are after w/o you needing to baby-splain it) but it takes a long time, years, to reach them, as no “ordinary human being” wants to be hit up by cold emails from a cold startup asking for money, in my experience they need to come to you inbound via your brand and network. Using twitter DMs to meet as many people as possible (once your reputation is established) is a good way to get networked and start to map out who’s who in your space and develop the alliances you will need to succeed, get intros to customers, eventually get intros to acquirers (even harder game than VC, acquirers are even less technical and more spreadsheet-brained than VCs)
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“I contacted all the Vcs in the world, twice” cold outreach can work but the email needs to be an absolute bullseye to the exact VC in the world who already has your hypothesis and wants to learn more. But even if it’s love at first sight, you still need momentum with other VCs to get them to pull the trigger, which means you need interest from generalists, which means you need a few dozen warm intros. Broadly intros at seed stage come from angels who have already invested or are close to investing. Getting first checks from angels is a less hard game (because they likely have deep technical knowledge of your space and can therefore recognize the brilliance of your team and product, see the staggering opportunity you are after w/o you needing to baby-splain it) but it takes a long time, years, to reach them, as no “ordinary human being” wants to be hit up by cold emails from a cold startup asking for money, in my experience they need to come to you inbound via your brand and network. Using twitter DMs to meet as many people as possible (once your reputation is established) is a good way to get networked and start to map out who’s who in your space and develop the alliances you will need to succeed, get intros to customers, eventually get intros to acquirers (even harder game than VC, acquirers are even less technical and more spreadsheet-brained than VCs)