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Underscore VC's Seed Round Fundraising Toolkit in 2023

Templates and resources to help you find, pitch, and update investors.

👈 The Underscore VC team gets fundraising questions from early-stage entrepreneurs all the time:

How do I get in touch with investors?

What progress are VCs looking for at X stage?

How much detail should I include in my pitch deck?

The answer is an often unhelpful, “It depends.”

So we’ve packaged some repeatable tactics and best practices designed to get you started on each step of the fundraising process.

In this toolkit, you’ll find resources to help you find and build relationships with VCs, prepare your fundraising materials, and move the process forward. We’ve published these resources as a Coda doc, so you can take notes and save files as you go. The resources are ordered chronologically, and we recommend that you start by reading through them in this order.

At the end of the day, you’re the expert on your business. Trust your gut. Take what’s helpful, and leave what’s not.

👈 About

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Underscore is an early-stage Boston-based VC firm backing bold entrepreneurs with an aligned community designed to fit each startup's unique needs.

If you have questions, or are looking for additional resources, drop us a line: hello@underscore.vc.

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Pitching

The answer from many VCs is: It depends. This article demystifies what Seed funding “depends” on.

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Investor Relations

VC relationship building happens over time. Here's how to share the right info, manage inbound interest, and more.

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Pitching

A dashboard that highlights key SaaS operating metrics that’s relevant to your team, board, and investors.

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Pitching

Effectively manage inbound interest, focus your timeline, share information, meticulously track your conversations, and more.

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Investor Relations

Approach investor intros thoughtfully. Here's how to leverage your network the right way.

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Pitching

Avoid common traps and use a bottom-up approach in determining your startup’s market opportunity.

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Pitching

This slide is not about defending yourself or complaining about your competitors; it’s an opportunity to share your unique insights about what makes you different.

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Investor Relations

An easy way to keep track of all the conversations, emails, calls, tweet storms—you name it.

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Investor Relations

You might have heard the saying, “A startup’s relationship with a VC is like a marriage,” given SaaS companies take an average of nine years to exit—longer than the average US marriage.

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Pitching

What belongs in a pitch deck? How much information is too much? How do I tell a compelling story about my business?

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Investor Relations

Don’t let your Seed round announcement go to waste. Maximize reach, engagement, and impact with this complete guide.

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Investor Relations

An investor update template that makes it easier to outline and structure information.

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