The Mintround blog
Practical writing on fundraising, pitch decks, and investor outreach for early-stage founders.
11 cold-email mistakes that get founders marked as spam
Eleven concrete cold-email mistakes, from unverified lists and generic blasts to the wrong ask, that get founder outreach ignored or marked as spam.
The investor CRM spreadsheet: a template that actually works
The columns that matter in an investor CRM, how to run the pipeline through them, and how to seed the whole thing from a verified CSV export.
How to research an investor in 15 minutes before a meeting
A 15-minute checklist to research an investor before a call, covering portfolio, thesis, recent deals, socials, mutual connections, and what they pass on.
The investor CRM spreadsheet: a template that actually works
The columns that matter in an investor CRM, how to run the pipeline through them, and how to seed the whole thing from a verified CSV export.
How to research an investor in 15 minutes before a meeting
A 15-minute checklist to research an investor before a call, covering portfolio, thesis, recent deals, socials, mutual connections, and what they pass on.
From CSV to booked calls: a 7-day investor outreach workflow
A concrete seven-day plan that turns a raw investor CSV into cleaned segments, personalized emails, batched sends, follow-ups, and tracked replies.
How to verify an investor email before you hit send
Bounced emails quietly wreck your sender reputation. Here is how email verification actually works and why guessing addresses is a bad bet.
Finding pre-seed investors in Europe: where they hide
European pre-seed capital is scattered across angels, micro-funds, and country ecosystems. Here is where to look and how to filter by stage and geography.
How to build a climate-tech investor list that converts
Climate and deeptech investors are not interchangeable. Here is how to segment the landscape and build a focused list that actually gets replies.
Build a 200-investor target list from scratch in one afternoon
A step-by-step to go from zero to a focused 200-name target list - thesis fit, portfolio mining, stage and geo filters, verified emails, one clean sheet.
How to find any angel investor's email address (2026 guide)
The practical ways to find an angel's real email - firm domain patterns, LinkedIn, portfolio pages, and verified directories - and why guessing bounces.