fundraising

fundraising is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for founders deciding whether and how to raise money from investors. It covers fundraising choices, pitch preparation, investor meetings, and handling rejection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess whether to raise, prepare a pitch deck, choose what proof to lead with, plan investor conversations, and build resilience during fundraising.
Why use it?
It helps founders decide whether venture capital fits their goals and organize their strongest evidence into a clear pitch. It also sets realistic expectations about the fundraising process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess whether to raise, prepare a pitch deck, choose what proof to lead with, plan investor conversations, and build resilience during fundraising.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/fundraising
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill fundraising
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 624 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 $0.00038 $0.00624
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00312
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash a68fdcc98c46, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fundraising 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.

参考skill/lenny-skills-main (2)/lenny-skills-main/skills/fundraising/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fundraising Strategy

Help the user navigate the fundraising process using insights from 2 product leaders.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with fundraising:

  1. Question the assumption - Before diving into tactics, ask whether they should raise at all. Understand their goals and whether venture capital is the right path
  2. Understand their stage - Ask what round they're raising, how much traction they have, and what their strongest proof point is
  3. Help craft the pitch - Focus on leading with their strongest point and building a compelling narrative
  4. Prepare for the process - Set expectations about rejection rates and help them build resilience for the "dance of 100 nos"

Core Principles

Lead with your strongest point on slide one

Uri Levine: "Most people are missing the most important slide of their presentation is the first slide... This is the place that you're going to put your strongest point." Investors form impressions in the first minute. Don't bury your best evidence. If you have incredible traction, lead with it. If you have a unique insight, lead with that.

Challenge whether you should raise at all

Ryan Hoover: "I do spend time challenging founders sometimes when they're thinking about raising... to not raise." The venture path creates a "treadmill" of growth expectations. Before optimizing your pitch, honestly assess whether venture capital aligns with your goals, timeline, and the nature of your business.

Prepare for the "dance of 100 nos"

Fundraising is a numbers game. Most investors will say no, and that's normal. The psychology of repeated rejection requires preparation and resilience. Don't take early nos as signal about your company's viability.

Questions to Help Users

  • "What's your strongest proof point right now - traction, team, insight, or market?"
  • "Why are you raising venture capital specifically? Have you considered alternatives?"
  • "What's on your first slide? Is it your strongest point?"
  • "How many investors have you talked to? What patterns are you seeing in their feedback?"
  • "What's your target raise and how did you arrive at that number?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 55 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a68fdcc98c46

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fundraising is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 624 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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