Nicolas Keller

100 Funds of Funds is here. The allocators who back funds for a living, named and reachable. 👇 Most first-time fund managers chase the same brand-name institutions every other GP is emailing. The fund of funds is the LP whose whole job is to say yes to managers like you. The hard part was never finding the firm. It was finding the one person inside who underwrites, and reaching them before everyone else did. So we built the list of the right people. What's inside: 1️⃣ 100 named decision-makers, the people who actually underwrite managers 2️⃣ 36 funds of funds across 19 countries, led by the US, the UK, and Spain 3️⃣ 100% with a live LinkedIn profile 4️⃣ 69% with a verified work email 5️⃣ 77% at partner level or above 6️⃣ Name, title, fund, email, LinkedIn, and location on every row 7️⃣ The exact 8Raise search that built it, so you can pull your own A list does not close the commitment. You do. This just gets you to the right inbox a quarter before everyone else. The skills do the work. You do the raise. Comment "100" and I will send it to you. 1️⃣ Like this post 2️⃣ Comment "100" 3️⃣ Connect so I can send it P.S. Save for early access. 🔖

Founders Fund just dropped the final episode of MAFIA. A quick reminder of what this is. One of the most powerful venture firms in the world ran a weekly show, hosted by their own CMO, Mike Solana. Investors and founders around one table, filmed at Tosca Cafe in San Francisco, the same room as the original PayPal Mafia photo. Here is the part most of venture still missed. A fund did not sponsor a podcast. A fund became one. Owned distribution, not rented. Every founder watching now knows the partners by name before a single email. That is a brand moat no term sheet matches. The series ends, but the lesson does not: capital has a content calendar now. The funds that figure that out will own the next decade of deal flow. The ones that do not will keep wiring the same money into founders who already picked someone else. If this was useful: 1️⃣ Like so more founders and investors see it 2️⃣ Save it 🔖 (click ⋯ top corner, hit save) 3️⃣ Follow me for daily breakdowns like this

For most founders, the hard part of a raise was never the pitch. It was the volume. The investor list. The research on each name. The outreach. The follow-up that slips. A real fundraising team carries that load with five people and about $200K of payroll a year. Most founders raising have none of that. One person, one Gmail tab, doing five jobs at once. Six tools changed that. We run this exact stack across our own raises and the founders we work with, and used right it does the work of that five-person team. All before you make your first hire. Here are the 6 we reach for in almost every raise 👇 1. Claude The brain of the raise. Market research, deck reverse-engineering, personalized outreach, and follow-up drafts in one place. 2. 8Raise Find and enrich named investors who match your stage, sector, and check size. Verified emails, not a stale list. 3. Apify Pull each investor's recent activity from the web, so every message references something real instead of a template. 4. HeyReach Run warm LinkedIn outreach to investors at volume, sequenced and tracked, without it reading like spam. 5. Attio Your raise as a pipeline. Every investor, conversation, and term tracked in one CRM, so nothing warm goes cold. 6. Calendly Turn an interested investor into a booked call. One link, no back-and-forth, the meeting lands straight on your calendar. The boring truth of a fast raise: the goal is not to remove yourself from it. The best raises use AI for the 80 percent that is grind, the finding, enriching, tracking, and drafting, so the founder spends all their energy on the 20 percent that actually closes the round. The conversations. Less time in the tools. More time on the calls. 1️⃣ Like so more teams fundraising see it 2️⃣ Save this for your next raise 🔖 (click ⋯ top corner, hit save) 3️⃣ Follow me for daily breakdowns like this Curious what is in your raise stack. Drop it below.

Jake Paul and Logan Paul just closed an oversubscribed $100M growth fund. Anti Fund Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul as managing partners, Logan as GP, is now past $180M in AUM, six months after its $30M Fund I. The model is a barbell: small first checks into technical founders, $10M+ growth checks into the ones that break out. Growth I already holds OpenAI, Anduril, SpaceX, Cognition, and Helion. The verticals tell you where the money is going: → AI → Defense → Robotics → Energy → Frontier infrastructure Read it as someone raising. Anti Fund's own line is that capital is a commodity and attention is not. The Pauls didn't out-capital anyone, they turned reach into access, and access into a fund. You don't need 20M followers to borrow that. You need reach to the right investors before consensus gets there. Which is the whole game we help founders run: not more capital, more access to the people who write the checks. Smart capital moving into deep tech, or a top-of-cycle tell?

Claude finds RIA decision-makers from public SEC data. No four-figure database. Here is the method. If you are raising from registered investment advisers, you have been quoted four or five figures for a database of them. Here is what the sellers do not advertise: the underlying firm data is public, it comes from the SEC, and it costs nothing. Every RIA self-reports to the SEC on a public form. So the real question is not "where do I buy a list." It is "how do I go from the public record to named people I can email." That second step is the whole skill. The method: → The source: every RIA files Form ADV with the SEC. Business, client types, AUM, control persons. The most complete and current record of the entire RIA universe, by definition, and free → The pull: the SEC publishes the whole universe as a free bulk dataset. Hand it to Claude and filter on the three things that matter, location, size tier, client type, until two thousand firms become the eighty that fit → The shortcut: a purpose-built tool reads the same SEC feed and returns clean rows, filtered by state and AUM band, for coffee money per firm → The gap: the wall everyone hits. The SEC gives you firms, not a named decision-maker with a verified email. A list of 500 firms is a phone book, not a pipeline Where we land on that last part: automate across the gap, but hold it to the right-person standard. One enrichment pass that returns the actual decision-maker and a verified work email, not just any address at the domain. Speed across the list, precision on the name. You did not buy a database. You built a better one from the primary record. I wrote the full playbook: the exact SEC sources, the Claude filtering prompts, the tool config that pulls clean rows, and the enrichment step that turns firms into contacts. Comment "RIA" and I will send it to you. 1️⃣ Like this post 2️⃣ Comment "RIA" 3️⃣ Connect so I can send it P.S. Save for early access. 🔖

The Ultimate Claude CMO Guide is here. The full org chart for a marketing team in 2030 👇 The setup most teams will be running by 2030, pulled from the shift already underway: marketing output is growing about 4x faster than headcount. What's inside: 1/ The old org chart, and why it is breaking Output used to require hours, and hours required headcount. That assumption is breaking in public, and the numbers show it. 2/ The new chart A handful of humans doing only the work that does not automate, with a fleet of AI agents absorbing the production, analysis, first drafts, and monitoring underneath them. 3/ The System Architect Owns the machine, not a campaign. Designs the agent fleet, writes the instructions, decides what is a rule and what stays human, owns the data layer. 4/ The Creative Director Owns what the work feels like. When anyone can generate a thousand variants in an afternoon, the scarce thing is the taste to know which three are on-brand and worth scaling. 5/ The Growth and Analytics Operator Owns what the numbers mean and where the money goes. Reads the experiments, calls what is working, connects output to revenue. 6/ The four forces making it inevitable Execution cost collapsing to zero, ad spend growing not shrinking, the brand-performance wall ending, the bottleneck moving from production to judgment. None of them reverse. 7/ The first three moves to start now Rebuild one role as operator-plus-fleet, write down what is judgment versus rules, invest in operators not headcount. Whatever size you are today. The pattern in every seat: the agent proposes and executes the reversible, the human decides the irreversible and owns the outcome. The honest part is in the post, including what this does to junior roles and why "fire your agency" is the wrong read. Comment "CMO" and I will DM you the guide. Connect with me first so it sends. Save this post for early access. 🔖