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How to get warm intros to VCs

OpenVC Free Intermediate

This is the piece that names portfolio founders as the single strongest intro path and then ranks every other channel below it (co-investing seed VCs, your own users, ex-colleagues), which is exactly the manufacture-it-yourself playbook. It also walks through OpenVC's Intro Finder, so you get the method and the mapping mechanism in one page.

• A portfolio founder the investor already funded is the highest-converting referrer, worth more than any VC or advisor intro.
• Rank your possible introducers by category (portfolio founders, earlier-stage investors who co-invest, your clients, people around you) instead of hoping for a random mutual.
• A warm intro raises your odds of funding roughly 13x over a cold email, so the relationship-building weeks are the real work, not a detour.