How to find investors for your startup with Claude
Fundraising advice usually sounds like this: get warm intros, polish your deck, and pray🤞
Sami Ghozzi treats it like a sales funnel.
Investors are just an ICP.
You define them, find them, score them, and reach out: the same playbook he runs for his B2B clients, except the "deal" is a round.
And it works.
One of his clients is raising €25M and has already closed €5M with this system. Another €1.5M came out of a single event in Zurich, filled through LinkedIn outreach.
His secret weapon for the heavy lifting: Claude Code.
Not for writing the pitch, but for everything around it.
Sourcing hundreds of investors, scoring them, enriching the data, structuring the outreach.
The strategy stays human.
The grunt work doesn't.
But we're not going to tell you about it.
We're going to do it in front of you.
Here's the setup:
Jacob wants to build an offline AI Campus in Berlin called Flourish with AI.
Big vision, but no money.
Sami's job is to build him a fundraising engine, in one hour, live.
The session runs in 3 parts:
Part 1 — The idea.
Jacob presents his idea like a real client would: this is the vision, this is how much I need, this is what I'm thinking. He won't make it easy. It's a complicated project with a lot of moving parts. Not a digital marketing agency selling FB ADs to dentists in Barcelona.
Part 2 — The strategy.
Sami runs the workshop he does with paying clients: who is the right investor for this? What do they care about? Which channel reaches them? The audience gets a say: drop your suggestions in the chat and watch them shape the campaign. One spoiler he'll unpack live: the goal of investor outreach is never money in the first message. It's the meeting.
Part 3 — Claude Code goes to work.
Sami shares his screen and does what he'd normally do after the client call: find the investors in the databases, score them, enrich them with emails and LinkedIn profiles, and write the outreach: all with Claude Code running in the terminal, commentated step by step as if you were watching sports. You watch a real fundraising campaign get built from a blank screen.
Then open Q&A to close it out.
Yes, it's a simulation.
The AI Campus doesn't exist (yet).
But the system you'll watch get built is real.
What you'll take away
The fundraising-as-GTM playbook: treat investors like an ICP, and the round like a pipeline
Where Claude Code fits in each step: sourcing, scoring, enriching, outreach and where the human has to stay in the seat
Why the first message should chase a meeting, never money, and what that changes in your copy
How to use LinkedIn as your investor outreach channel, no expensive tools or bought domains required if you don't want to
The exact workflow that helped one startup close €5M of a €25M round
Who should attend
Founders who are raising or will be within a year. GTM and sales people who want to see Claude Code applied to a real pipeline, not a demo. And anyone who suspects fundraising is less about magic networks and more about systems. You're right, come see one live.
About the speaker
Sami Ghozzi helps B2B companies grow with tech and AI. After years at Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, he now builds GTM systems for clients across Germany, Switzerland, and the US — combining tools like Claude Code and Clay with the sales experience that makes them actually convert.
He spoke at AI Summit Barcelona last year on how to use AI in sales, and he's back on stage this September.
Come to the session, then come find him at AI Summit Barcelona. This is your sneak peek.
About the host
Jacob Zangel is the founder of Flourish with AI, where he helps non-technical B2B founders, marketers, and creators get real business results from AI through fun and gamified challenges, content, and live experiences.
He brings 10 years of experience in growth and B2B marketing, including work with Fortune 100 companies, and is launching the Flourish with AI podcast later this summer featuring guests like Gary Vaynerchuk, Neil Patel, and James Clear.
More to come
This event is part of the AI Summit Barcelona × Flourish with AI collaboration bringing you this summer's events program: a series for operators and builders working with AI in the run-up to the September 22–23 Summit.