Wharton

Sieva raised a VC fund by cold-emailing the public Wharton alumni database

Shaan tells how their friend Sieva looked up the public Wharton alumni database and cold-emailed graduates with a pitch to invest in MBA entrepreneurs from Wharton, Harvard, and Stanford - raising a fund purely from alumni of those three schools.

“So our friend Sieva did this for— he, you know, he's at Wharton. He created— he went to— he looked up the Wharton alumni database, which is like public information basically if you go to the school, and just started cold emailing. It was like, hey, we are gonna invest in MBA entrepreneurs, you know, business school graduates of Wharton, Harvard, and Stanford. How does that sound? Those guys seem to do pretty well. And they raised money from alumni of those 3 schools.”

Steal thisRaise your first fund by cold-emailing your school's public alumni database with a tightly-themed thesis.