Warm intro

Skill oncesylvia/fundraising-skills/skills/warm-intro

Free, open-source Claude Code skills for founder-led fundraising — find stage/sector-fit investors (researched live, no hallucinated lists), then run cold email, warm intros & cold calls without spam. Bilingual EN/中文 (US + China). Built by a founder raising for Copay (agentic stablecoin payments).

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npx -y skills add oncesylvia/fundraising-skills --skill warm-intro

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Get warm introductions to investors. Writes the forwardable (double opt-in) intro the founder sends to a mutual connection, plus the ask that makes saying yes easy, and ways to find warm paths. Use when a founder says "ask my contact to intro me to <investor>", "write a forwardable intro", "I have a mutual connection to <fund>", or wants to turn a connection into an investor meeting. A warm intro beats the best cold email — route here whenever a path exists.

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Warm introductions

A warm intro is the highest-converting way into an investor. This skill helps a founder (1) find who can introduce them and (2) write a forwardable, double opt-in intro that makes the connector's job effortless and the investor's decision easy.

Read shared/references/outreach-ethics.md first. The connector is spending their credibility for you — never make that costly or risky for them.

The core mechanic: double opt-in, forwardable

The gold-standard etiquette:

You write a short note to your connector asking if they're willing to intro — and you include a forwardable blurb they can paste/forward as-is.
The connector checks with the investor first ("can I intro you to X?") — double opt-in. This protects the connector and means the investor arrives warm, not ambushed.
The connector forwards your blurb; the investor replies; you take it from there.

Your job is to make step 1 take the connector 30 seconds. The easier you make it, the more likely it happens — and the better it reflects on you.

Step 1 — Find the warm path

If the founder doesn't yet know who to target at the firm or who can introduce them, run the warm-path-finder skill first — it pinpoints the right person and ranks connection paths from the founder's own authorized data (Gmail, exported LinkedIn connections, contacts) and public sources. This skill takes over once a named introducer exists.

Before writing, help the founder figure out who can intro them:

Direct: do they already know someone at/near the firm?
Second degree: search LinkedIn for shared connections to the target partner; check who in their network knows portfolio founders (a portfolio founder's intro is gold — investors trust their founders).
Community paths: accelerator alumni, university/employer networks, angel syndicates, founder Slacks, mutual advisors.
Best connector ≠ most senior. The ideal introducer is someone the investor trusts and replies to and who genuinely rates you. A lukewarm intro from a big name is worse than an enthusiastic one from a respected peer.

If no path exists, say so and route to the cold-email skill — but suggest cheap ways to build a path first (engage with the investor's content, get into a community they're in, ask a portfolio founder for advice rather than an intro).

Step 2 — Write the ask to the connector

Short, no-pressure, with an easy out. Include the forwardable blurb. See references/forwardable-template.md for full templates. Shape:

Warm one line to the connector (real, personal).
The ask: "Would you be open to introducing me to <Name> at <Fund>? Only if you're comfortable — no worries at all if not."
Why this investor (1 line) so the connector can vouch with context.
"I've written a short blurb below you can forward if it's easy." → blurb.

Step 3 — Write the forwardable blurb

This is what the investor actually reads, so it follows cold-email discipline (short, specific, one ask) but warmer because it's vouched-for:

Who you are + one-liner.
The 1–2 strongest, truest traction points.
Why this investor specifically.
The ask: a 20–30 min call.
A link (deck/site), no big attachment.

Keep it ~75–110 words. The connector should be able to forward it without editing.

Step 4 — After the intro

Reply fast (same day) and move the connector to bcc in your first reply to the investor — standard etiquette that respects their inbox.
Close the loop: thank the connector and tell them how it went, whether or not it converts. They took a reputational risk; gratitude keeps the channel open for next time.

Hard rules

Never fabricate a relationship or imply a closer connection than is real.
Always give the connector an easy "no." Pressure poisons the well.
Truthful traction, same as everywhere.
One investor per ask (unless the connector explicitly offers several) — don't hand someone a list to shop you around; it reads as low-conviction.

Bilingual / China market (中文)

If the founder is raising in the China market or asks for Chinese output, use references/zh-talk-tracks.md and first read shared/references/china-market-playbook.md. In China, intros usually run over WeChat (拉群 / 推名片) rather than a forwardable email, and closing the loop with the connector (致谢) is even more important — 人情 is reciprocal. The zh file gives the connector ask, a forwardable blurb, group-intro etiquette, and the thank-you/loop-close, all in Chinese.

Output format

Deliver:

Note to the connector (with the no-pressure ask).
Forwardable blurb (ready to paste).
The follow-up reply to send once the investor responds (connector to bcc).
A reminder to close the loop with the connector afterward.