Every founder in your batch is building the same target list.
Same twelve firms. Which means a partner there opens forty decks a week in your category, and yours lands at number thirty-one.
Emerging funds are the arbitrage. A first-vintage fund needs deal flow more than you need them, and the partner reads their own email.
We mapped 180 of them, all active in 2026, with VC Pitch Conf:
Why They Convert Better
Not lower standards. Different incentives.
▫️ They are proving a thesis. A first fund is building the track record that raises the second. Same bar as what top VCs look for, applied faster.
▫️ No associate layer. The person reading your email writes the check. That changes how you write it, and the outreach system covers what works when a partner reads their own inbox.
▫️ Your email is rare. Big funds get everything. A fund raised eighteen months ago gets a fraction.
The tradeoff: smaller checks, less brand signal for your Series A, and they might be fundraising while you are.
So blend the list. The investor lists library covers the established side, and the free matching tool cuts either one down to the twenty who fit you.
Then Pitch Them, September 17
The database came out of working with VC Pitch Conf, a virtual pitch conference on September 17. Emerging funds show up at these, because twenty matched founders in an afternoon is how a small team builds deal flow.
Pitch ticket:
▫️ 20 guaranteed 1:1 pitches, 7 minutes each, matched by industry, stage, and geo
▫️ 2.5 hours, replacing months of cold outreach
▫️ 200+ VCs, angels, and family offices, all deploying
Free:
▫️ The full content track, keynotes and panels
▫️ Entry for investors, plus co-investor, LP, and family office matchmaking
Raising in the next six months? This is the afternoon to block. And what VCs check in diligence is what lands the day after a good one.
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Before You Reach Out
Seven minutes rewards preparation. So does a cold email to someone who reads their own inbox.
Find them
▫️ The free VC matching tool, your top 20 by stage, sector, and geo
▫️ 144 family offices that cut pre-seed checks
▫️ 2,000+ European family offices, named decision-makers, direct emails
▫️ AI and SaaS angels · 590+ US women angels
▫️ The full library, 10,000+ check-writers
Reach them
▫️ The investor outreach system, 8 first calls from 50 DMs
▫️ The 375 prompt book, discovery through close
▫️ The Claude prompts that close rounds
Get the numbers straight
▫️ The founder’s guide to financial modeling
▫️ The VC method for valuation
▫️ The SaaS cohort model · the SaaS financial model
▫️ The 13-week runway system
Survive what comes after the yes
▫️ 300+ decks that raised, including 26 that raised $400M
▫️ The McKinsey diligence method and data room
▫️ The board meeting operating system, for the first board you now have
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