How to Build a Strong Network as a Business Angel
- By Yohann Merran
October 29th, 2026
Financial Modeling for Non-Finance Founders
If the words "financial model" make you want to close the tab, you are the founder this guide was written for. Plenty of great companies are built by people who came from product, design, engineering,...
The Psychology of Cold Email in VC
A cold email to an investor is a strange piece of writing. In two hundred words, to a stranger, you are asking for their time, their money and their belief in something that barely exists yet. Most fo...
Subject Line Science: Investor Outreach
An investor decides whether to open your email in about the time it takes to blink. Before your traction, your team, or your beautifully crafted pitch deck gets a single second of attention, one line ...
Top Family Office Investors Backing Startups in 2026
When founders search for the top family office investors backing startups, they usually want a list of names. The honest answer is more useful than a list: the family offices most worth your time are ...
Engineering Your Investor List: Data vs Reach
Every fundraise starts with a list. Before the pitch, before the sequence, before the first meeting, there is the question of who you are actually going to contact. Get the list right and everything d...
The 2026 Founder's Roadmap to a Venture-Ready Startup
Most startups do not fail to raise because their idea is weak. They fail because they walked into investor meetings before they were ready, burned their best introductions, and never recovered the mom...
How to Raise from Family Offices (2026)
Family offices have quietly become one of the most attractive sources of startup capital, and most founders still do not know how to reach them. Unlike venture funds, a single family office answers to...
The Ultimate Guide to Finding & Closing Angel Investors
Angel investors write the first outside cheques that most startups ever receive. They move faster than venture funds, they invest their own money, and they often bring the operating experience and net...
2026 Investor Outreach Benchmark Report
Fundraising is an outreach game before it is a pitching game. Before a single investor hears your story, hundreds of messages have to land, get opened, earn a reply, and convert into a meeting. Yet mo...
Best Automated Investor Outreach Tools: 2026 Strategies
Raising a round is a sales process, and the top of your funnel is investor outreach. The founders who close fastest are rarely the ones with the best deck. They are the ones who reach the right invest...
