Pitch the right investor first.
Tell us your stage, your industry and how much you need. You get a clear call, venture capital or angels, with the reasons behind it.
Free for first-time founders. No account needed to see your answer.
- Stage
- Building MVP
- Industry
- B2B software
- Raising
- $300K
Approach first
Angel investors
- $300K is below what most seed funds will lead.
- Angels back founders before there is revenue to show.
- A few angel cheques can close in weeks, not months.
Next step
Read how angels judge a pre-revenue pitch
Two questions get you most of the way.
Stage and round size decide more than anything else. Pick yours and watch the answer change.
Your starting point
Angel investors
Approach angel investors
Angels invest their own money, often $10K to $100K each, and can decide after one or two meetings. A round this size at this stage is their territory.
The full questionnaire also weighs your industry and what the money is for.
See how angels and VCs differAngels and VCs want different things.
Pitching a fund too early wastes months. Pitching angels for a round they cannot fill stalls it. Here is where the line falls.
- Whose money
- AngelsTheir own savings
- VCsA fund raised from outside investors
- Typical cheque
- Angels$10K to $100K per person
- VCs$500K and up, often leading the round
- Time to a decision
- AngelsDays to a few weeks
- VCsSeveral weeks to months, with partner meetings
- What wins them over
- AngelsYou, an early product, a problem they understand
- VCsTraction and a market large enough for a fund-sized return
- How involved
- AngelsAnywhere from hands-off to close mentor
- VCsOften a board seat and regular reporting
- Best moment to ask
- AngelsIdea through first customers
- VCsRepeatable growth, or a round only a fund can fill
Typical ranges for early-stage rounds. Your recommendation adjusts for your industry.
The answer is where outreach starts.
Come back when the company changes
Save each recommendation to your account. Update your answers after a launch or a first big customer and see if your path has moved.
Building MVP, raising $300K
Angel investors
First paying customers, raising $1.2M
Angels, then seed funds
Track every investor you reach out to
Add names as you go and move each one along as replies come in.
- Not contacted
- Contacted
- Meeting booked
- Passed
- Committed
Guides for the path you are on
Short reads matched to your recommendation. Premium adds outreach email templates and a first-meeting prep sheet.
- What an angel listens for in a first meeting
- Writing a cold email to a seed fund
- SAFE or priced round: what first-time founders sign