For founders preparing a raise
Warm introductions to investors start in your own connections.
Before cold-emailing a hundred funds, find the investors, angels and connectors who already know you. Upload your LinkedIn export, describe your round, and every connection gets read against it.
No account, no card. Nothing connects to your LinkedIn login, and your file is deleted once your report is made. How your data is handled
16 worth contacting out of 416 shown
The strongest warm introductions come from people already in your network: investors and angels you know directly, founders they have backed, and operators who work closely with funds. List everyone who invests at your stage or can reach someone who does, check them for fit, and ask each for one specific introduction with a note they can forward.
Step by step
How to do it, whether or not you use Rolomine.
Stage, cheque size and sector. A growth fund can't lead a pre-seed round however well you know one of its partners, so fit comes before warmth.
The file includes people who have since become angels, joined funds, or founded companies that raised from the investors you want.
Direct investors could write the cheque themselves. Connectors are founders they backed and operators they trust. Rolomine reads every connection against your round and ranks both.
Name the investor, say in a sentence why they fit, and offer a short note they can forward. Asking a connector to introduce you to "anyone" rarely works.
Introductions take weeks to turn into meetings. Starting while you are still building the round saves you from rushing the people who matter most.
Why the introduction matters as much as the deck
Investors see far more companies than they can meet, and a trusted introduction is one of the few signals that moves a founder up the list before anyone opens the deck. The person introducing you is vouching for you, which is why who makes the introduction matters as much as who receives it.
Most founders know more of those introducers than they realise. Former colleagues become angels, people you met at an event now work at funds, and founders from your last company have raised since. They are in your connections, just not front of mind.
A warm introduction to the wrong fund uses up the introducer's goodwill for nothing. Check stage, cheque size and sector first, then find the warmest route to the investors who pass.
Mistakes that waste introductions
- Asking connectors for anyone. A named investor and a reason makes an introduction easy to make. A vague request makes it easy to put off.
- Skipping the forwardable note. Write the three lines you want the investor to read, so your connector only has to press forward.
- Approaching your first choices first. Practise the story on investors who fit less well, then go to the ones you want most with a sharper pitch.
What Rolomine does, and what it can't see
Rolomine reads your LinkedIn connections export against your round, identifies each employer's size and sector, and ranks the investors and connectors in it. Each strong match comes with the reason it fits and a first message you can adapt.
It works from job title, employer and connection date. It can't see a fund's current strategy or someone's recent investments beyond what a web search finds for your strongest matches, so check each investor's stage and focus before you ask.
What you would type, and what comes back
Four questions, then one of these for every strong match.
Start the scan from this page and Investors is already chosen, so the questions are phrased for what you are looking for.
Trailmark, an expense tool for field service teams. Live for eight months, 40 paying companies, growing 15% a month without paid acquisition.Pre-seed and seed investors writing $100k to $500k cheques, ideally with B2B SaaS experience. Angels welcome.$750k seed roundPartner at a seed-stage fund; you met at a founders' dinner in Berlin in 2018.
A fund of this size writes cheques in your range, and a direct connection means you don't need an introducer at all. Confirm the fund's current sector focus before you write.
Example output with invented people. Every claim is derived from job title, employer size and connection date, nothing else.
Pricing
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- ✓Every strong match, ranked and written up
- ✓A pursue-or-skip verdict for each goal you set
- ✓An opening message for each one
- ✓The full list as a CSV
Questions
What people ask about this.
How do I get a warm introduction to an investor?
Find someone in your network who knows the investor well, tell them in a sentence why that investor fits your round, and send a short note they can forward. Introductions from founders the investor has backed tend to carry the most weight.
How do I find investors in my LinkedIn network?
Export your connections and look for angels, fund partners and people at investment firms, plus founders who have raised from the funds you want. Rolomine reads every connection against your round and ranks both investors and connectors.
Should I contact an investor directly or ask for an introduction?
If you know the investor yourself, write directly: you are the warm introduction. If you don't, an introduction from someone they trust is usually worth waiting for.
When should I start asking for introductions?
Several weeks before you want meetings. Introductions take time to turn into calls, and starting early means you don't have to rush the people you most want to meet.
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