Find, Attract, and Close the Investors Who'll Back You
Deborah Choi
6x Founder · Angel · MD of Founderland
Build a stronger pre-seed or seed raise, from investor list to outreach.
Most founders raise the hard way: chasing the same visible investors everyone else emails, sending materials before they're ready, and hoping a warm intro appears. You know the round is possible. You just can’t tell who is actually a fit, how to reach them, or whether you look fundable when they check you out.
Over four live weeks, you’ll build the core pieces of a credible pre-seed or seed raise:
A targeted investor list of people with a specific reason to care about your company
A founder brand that reads as fundable in the places investors actually check, starting with LinkedIn
And an investor-ready data room with the documents investors expect once conversations get serious.
Every week, you'll leave with something you can use. By the end, you’ll have a clear fundraising strategy, a target list of best-fit investors, stronger positioning, and the materials and outreach plan to start or accelerate your raise.
What you’ll learn
Go from unsure who to approach to a targeted investor list, stronger positioning, and a raise you’re ready to run.
Define your funding target, timeline, investor fit and biggest readiness gaps
Sharpen the traction, financial assumptions and proof points investors are most likely to question
Leave with a clear fundraising strategy and readiness map
Learn how to identify relevant funds, angels, exited founders and operators beyond the obvious names
Use AI and research workflows to surface candidates, then verify who is genuinely a fit
Leave with a targeted investor list and a specific reason each person belongs on your list
Strengthen your LinkedIn profile and founder narrative around credibility, insight and momentum
Build the core materials that support your raise, including your executive summary, deal memo, FAQ and competitor view
Leave with stronger positioning and an organized, shareable data room (investors expect this!)
Prioritize who to contact first and choose the right outreach path for each investor
Build messaging, follow-up and sequencing that does not depend entirely on warm introductions
Leave with an outreach plan, investor messaging and clear next steps for the weeks after the course
Learn directly from Deborah
Deborah Choi
6x Founder · Angel · MD of Founderland
Who this course is for
The first-time raiser
You need outside capital to reach the next stage, but you’ve never raised a pre-seed or seed round before.The bootstrapper going after capital
You've built with your own money and revenue, but you've hit the ceiling of what you can do alone.The overlooked founder
You've pitched, but the warm intros and famous VCs haven't materialized.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Deborah Choi in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Every session is recorded and shared, so missing an occasional class does not mean missing the material.
Community of peers
Compare investor targeting, outreach approaches and what is working between sessions, while keeping momentum through the four weeks.
Your investor list, built with you
Build a targeted list of relevant funds, angels, exited founders and operators, with a clear reason each belongs on your radar.
Optional Friday office hours (1:1, first come, first served)
A limited number of 20-minute Friday slots are available each week for individual feedback on your investor list, positioning, data room, outreach or wherever you are stuck.
A real deliverable every week
Each session produces something you can use immediately: your fundraising readiness map, investor list, positioning and data room, and outreach plan.
AI workflows that do the heavy lifting
Use practical prompts and research workflows to surface investors, pressure-test your materials, and find the questions you have not prepared for, without outsourcing the judgment investors actually care about.
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Course syllabus
4 live sessions • 4 lessons • 4 projects
Week 1
Week 1: Get clear on your raise
Nov
3
Session 1: Get clear on your raise
Week 2
Week 2: Build your investor universe and get on their radar
Nov
10
Session 2: Build your investor universe and get on their radar
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