# Connect with angel investors who back developer tools

100 accounts and 200 people, 200 LinkedIn connection requests and a message to the 60 or so who accept.

Family: [Outreach by audience](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/audiences.md) · HTML page: https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/audience-angel-investors

## Give this to your agent

```text
Using RouterGrowth, run this workflow: Connect on LinkedIn with angel investors who back developer tools, then message the ones who accept. 200 people, personalized from their posts.
Show me the price before every call, and stop after each stage with a sample of the results so I can adjust.

1. Source the accounts: company.search x 10 searches. Companies matching the industry, size and location, ten or so per search.
2. Qualify on firmographics: company.enrich x 100 companies. Headcount, industry and location to keep the accounts that fit.
3. Find the people: linkedin.search x 100 searches. People search on your connected LinkedIn account, one search per account.
4. Get the contact: linkedin.profile x 200 profiles read. Charged on a match only: a miss is free, so the estimate is a ceiling.
5. Context for the first line: web.scrape x 100 pages, social.posts x 600 posts. One page per account and a few recent posts per person, so the opener is about them.
6. Run the outreach: linkedin.invite x 200 requests, linkedin.message x 60 (30% accepted). Requests and follow-ups from your connected account, inside LinkedIn's daily limits.
7. Read the replies: linkedin.messages x 20 inbox reads. Poll the inboxes, classify replies, hand the warm ones to a human.

Budget for one run: about $5.41. Run routergrowth inspect on any capability before the first call to confirm the quote.
```

## Why this works

Angels invest in what they used to build. Their LinkedIn history tells you which ones would understand the product in one message.

The first line, as your agent would write it:

> You ran developer relations before you started investing, so you have lived the problem we are solving. Open to a short note on it?

## The workflow, stage by stage

Source the accounts → Qualify on firmographics → Find the people → Get the contact → Context for the first line → Run the outreach → Read the replies

| # | Stage | Calls | Cost |
|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Source the accounts | `company.search` x 10 | $0.02 |
| 2 | Qualify on firmographics | `company.enrich` x 100 | $0.71 |
| 3 | Find the people | `linkedin.search` x 100 | $0.20 |
| 4 | Get the contact | `linkedin.profile` x 200 | $0.40 |
| 5 | Context for the first line | `web.scrape` x 100, `social.posts` x 600 | $1.76 |
| 6 | Run the outreach | `linkedin.invite` x 200, `linkedin.message` x 60 | $2.28 |
| 7 | Read the replies | `linkedin.messages` x 20 | $0.04 |

One run: $5.41 for 1,390 calls. Assumptions: 2 contacts per account unless the brief says otherwise, 70% email find rate, 90% verification pass, 3 emails per contact, 30% LinkedIn accept rate. Prices are the catalog's at the time this page was built; `routergrowth inspect` returns the exact quote before a call.

### Source the accounts

Companies matching the industry, size and location, ten or so per search.

### Qualify on firmographics

Headcount, industry and location to keep the accounts that fit.

### Find the people

People search on your connected LinkedIn account, one search per account.

### Get the contact

Charged on a match only: a miss is free, so the estimate is a ceiling.

### Context for the first line

One page per account and a few recent posts per person, so the opener is about them.

### Run the outreach

Requests and follow-ups from your connected account, inside LinkedIn's daily limits.

### Read the replies

Poll the inboxes, classify replies, hand the warm ones to a human.

## Run it from the command line

```bash
# RouterGrowth workflow: Connect on LinkedIn with angel investors who back developer tools, then message the ones w
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup

# 01 Source the accounts  (company.search x 10)
routergrowth run -c company.search -i '{"query":"<query>"}'

# 02 Qualify on firmographics  (company.enrich x 100)
routergrowth run -c company.enrich -i '{"domain":"<domain>"}'

# 03 Find the people  (linkedin.search x 100)
routergrowth run -c linkedin.search -i '{}'

# 04 Get the contact  (linkedin.profile x 200)
routergrowth run -c linkedin.profile -i '{}'

# 05 Context for the first line  (web.scrape x 100, social.posts x 600)
routergrowth run -c web.scrape -i '{"url":"<url>"}'
routergrowth run -c social.posts -i '{"platform":"<platform>","handle":"<handle>"}'

# 06 Run the outreach  (linkedin.invite x 200, linkedin.message x 60)
routergrowth run -c linkedin.invite -i '{}'
routergrowth run -c linkedin.message -i '{"text":"<text>"}'

# 07 Read the replies  (linkedin.messages x 20)
routergrowth run -c linkedin.messages -i '{}'
```

## Questions

### How do I find investors to email?

company.search returns funds by focus and stage, people.search finds the partners at each one and contact.find returns a work email that is charged only when found. The agent reads each fund's site for the first line.

### How do I build a media list?

news.search finds who has written about your topic recently, with the outlet and the article. The agent keeps the reporters on the beat, finds their address and cites their own piece in the pitch.

### Can I use this for recruiting?

Yes. people.search filters by title, seniority, company and location, which is candidate sourcing. The email goes out from an inbox you own, and replies come back to the same thread.

### Is every address verified before sending?

contact.verify checks each address and returns valid, invalid or unknown. The workflows send only to the valid ones, which protects the domain you send from.

### What does this workflow cost to run?

About $5.41 for one run of 1,390 calls. Each call is quoted before it runs and a lookup that finds nothing is not charged, so the figure is a ceiling. There is no subscription: the run is paid from a prepaid balance.

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