How to use data to fundraise faster (Founding Journey Community Only)
Using Data to Raise Faster
This session focuses on how founders are using investor and network data to accelerate their time-to-close. Fundraising has historically been a process driven by gut feel, warm intros from a handful of mutual connections, and a lot of spray-and-pray outreach. The best founders today are doing something different — taking a systematic, data-driven approach to identify the right investors, find the warmest paths in, and run a tight, organised process from discovery to close.
In this session, we focus on the most important questions founders are looking to understand when it comes to using data and intelligence in their raise:
Finding the Right Investors — How do you cut through the noise and identify the investors most likely to write a check for your specific stage, sector, and geography? What data signals actually matter when building your target list, and how do you avoid wasting time on investors who were never going to say yes?
Getting In the Room — The venture industry runs on warm introductions. How are founders systematically mapping their networks to find the shortest path to any investor? What does a high-precision, relationship-driven outreach process actually look like in practice?
Running a Tight Process — How do the best founders manage a live fundraise — tracking conversations, maintaining momentum, and knowing when to push and when to wait?
The session will leave time for a brief Q&A at the end to make the discussion interactive. The event is most useful for founders currently targeting a Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A round who want to bring more structure and intelligence to their fundraising process.
Our Background:
This event is hosted in partnership with Founding Journey — a community of 75,000+ founders getting tactical advice on how to build, grow, and raise capital.
Backed by a16z and YCombinator, Metal is an AI-powered operating system for fundraising that brings intelligence to core workflows. This event is organised and hosted by the Metal team, including:
Usman Gul (Co-Founder & CEO @ Metal) — Raised $120M in venture financing across his career
Adam Roberts (Investor Partnerships @ Metal) — Raised $70M+ across his own startup and advising portfolio