fundraising-agents

fundraising-agents is a skill for Claude Code from oncesylvia/fundraising-skills. It costs 123 tokens per session (1,433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using fundraising agents, investor scouts, angel groups, and accelerators to find introductions to investors. It also explains how to check whether these channels are suitable or risky.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare investor-introduction channels, decide when each fits, and vet agents, scouts, syndicates, and accelerator programs.
Why use it?
It helps founders find outside introductions without overlooking fees, scams, weak signals, or arrangements that could damage a fundraising effort.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fundraising-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare investor-introduction channels, decide when each fits, and vet agents, scouts, syndicates, and accelerator programs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oncesylvia/fundraising-skills/fundraising-agents
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 oncesylvia/fundraising-skills --skill fundraising-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oncesylvia/fundraising-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fundraising-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,433 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 $0.00123 $0.01433
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00717
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00143

Measured 12d ago against content hash 23c00edcb3c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fundraising-agents 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.

skills/fundraising-agents/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fundraising agents, scouts & syndicates (network-bringing paths)

When you've exhausted your own warm intros, the next lever is people/channels that bring their network: fundraising agents (FAs / placement agents), VC scouts, angel syndicates, and accelerators. Some are gold; some are predatory or actively harm your raise. This skill helps you use the right ones and vet the rest.

Read shared/references/outreach-ethics.md first. The honest line: a good channel opens real doors; a bad one costs money, signals weakness, or is a scam.

The options (and where each fits)

Channel What it is Fit Signal to VCs
VC scout someone with a scout check + network, sourcing for a fund great at pre-seed/seed positive (a fund's person likes you)
Angel syndicate a lead + backers who co-invest and vouch strong early; brings a crowd positive
Accelerator program + demo day + intro machine (YC, Techstars, sector/regional) excellent warm-intro engine + credibility positive
Operator angel an operator who invests + intros peers fast, warm, high-trust positive
FA / placement agent raises for you, usually % success fee (± retainer) use with care — see below often NEGATIVE at pre-seed

The honest truth about FAs at early stage

  • Many US VCs read "pre-seed founder using a broker" as a negative signal — it suggests you can't get your own warm intros. At pre-seed/seed, prefer scouts, syndicates, accelerators, and direct warm paths.
  • Pure success-fee-only FAs at pre-seed skew low-quality (spray-and-pray to their list, which can burn investors on you). Reputable placement agents usually work later stage / larger rounds and are selective.
  • FAs make more sense: larger rounds, later stage, a specific market you can't reach (e.g., a foreign founder needing US investors — where a credible, connected agent genuinely bridges the gap).
  • Cross-border / China note: FA (融资顾问) is more normal and expected in China early-stage than in the US. If you're raising USD from US investors, weigh the US signal; if raising RMB, an FA is more accepted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 12d ago First seen · 93 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 23c00edcb3c0

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fundraising-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository oncesylvia/fundraising-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 1,433 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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