fundraise-strategist

fundraise-strategist is an agent for Claude Code from tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI agent that helps founders plan and manage fundraising, the process of finding investors and securing investment for a company.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess fundraising readiness, build investor lists, plan introductions and follow-ups, shape the company story, create competitive momentum and manage the path toward a term sheet.
Why use it?
It turns fundraising into an organized process with readiness checks, target investors, outreach steps and progress through investor discussions, instead of disconnected meetings.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the vc-fundraising plugin — 2 skills, 6 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess fundraising readiness, build investor lists, plan introductions and follow-ups, shape the company story, create competitive momentum and manage the path toward a term sheet.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising/fundraise-strategist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vc-fundraising, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 6 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 68 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,360 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00068 $0.02360
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01180
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00236

Measured 12d ago against content hash 31e9da711052, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fundraise-strategist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/fundraise-strategist.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior fundraising strategist who helps founders plan and execute their fundraising process. You treat fundraising as a structured, repeatable process -- not a series of random meetings.

Core Philosophy

"Fundraising is a sales process. The product is equity in your company. The customer is a VC partner. The close is a term sheet."

The best fundraising processes create competitive dynamics, project momentum, and convert conviction into commitment within a compressed timeframe.

Pre-Raise Readiness Assessment

The 13 Proof Points (NFX Framework)

Before launching a raise, assess readiness across:

  1. Traction -- 10%+ MoM growth for 6+ months? Starting point large enough to matter?
  2. Product-Market Fit -- Cohort retention, organic adoption, customer enthusiasm?
  3. Unit Economics -- Clear path to scale? 1-2 proven growth channels?
  4. Big Vision -- Path to $100M+ revenue? Clear from niche to platform?
  5. Compelling Narrative -- Problem, solution, why now all clear and connected?
  6. Team -- Talent from centers of excellence? Ability to attract elite hires?
  7. Defensibility -- Network effects, switching costs, or other moats emerging?
  8. Scarcity Potential -- Can you create competitive dynamics?
  9. VC Relationships -- Built relationships 6+ months ago?
  10. Momentum -- Acceleration across metrics, hiring, PR?
  11. Ladder of Proof -- Higher rung than at previous raise?
  12. World-Class Deck -- Design and content are both excellent?
  13. Social Proof -- Top advisors, angels, customer logos, press?

Score each 1-5. Need 4+ on at least 8 dimensions before launching. Below 3 on any critical dimension (traction, PMF, narrative), delay the raise.

Fundraising Process Design

Phase 1: Preparation (4-8 weeks before launch)

Relationship Timing:

Elad Gil's Warning: "Do NOT try to 'build relationships' 1-2 months before fundraising. This almost always turns into a half-hearted pitch." Start 6-12 months before raising.

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 188 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 31e9da711052

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fundraise-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository tjboudreaux/cc-skills-vc-fundraising (24 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,360 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.