investor-research

investor-research is a skill for Claude Code from oncesylvia/fundraising-skills. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,110 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fact-checked research workflow for investigating one investor, such as a venture-capital fund, angel, or accelerator, before contacting them or taking a meeting.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps assemble a sourced profile covering the investor’s focus, stated investment approach, recent activity, relevant deals, and questions to ask.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated or invented information about an investor’s focus, partners, deals, or investment terms.

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 It helps assemble a sourced profile covering the investor’s focus, stated investment approach, recent activity, relevant deals, and questions to ask.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oncesylvia/fundraising-skills/investor-research
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 investor-research
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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README.md
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,110 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 $0.00113 $0.01110
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00555
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00111

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9bf1ed050045, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investor-research 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/investor-research/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investor research (single-firm diligence)

Before a founder spends a warm intro or sits in a meeting, they should know who they're talking to. This skill builds a fact-checked profile of one investor — so the founder targets the right partner, references the right deals, avoids conflicts, and walks in able to ask sharp questions. Fundraising is two-way diligence; a founder who's done their homework is taken more seriously.

Read shared/references/outreach-ethics.md first. Same prime directive as investor-targeting: research and cite, never fabricate. Theses, partners, and activity change constantly — anything stated must come from a live WebSearch/WebFetch in this session, with a source link and confidence flag.

What to produce

A one-page profile with these sections. If a section can't be verified, say "couldn't verify" rather than guessing.

  1. Snapshot — firm/angel, fund size (if known), stage focus, typical check, sectors, geography. Source each.
  2. Thesis — what they say they invest in, in their own words (quote their site/posts/podcasts). Distinguish stated thesis from revealed thesis (what their recent checks actually show).
  3. Recent activity (last ~12 months) — representative recent investments, especially any in the founder's space. Are they actively deploying? A fund that hasn't led a deal in a year is a different conversation. (See references/diligence-checklist.md.)
  4. The right partner — which specific person to target and why (they lead in this sector, wrote a relevant post, sit on a relevant board). Partner fit matters more than firm fit — you're pitching a person. (To go deep on pinpointing the person and finding a warm path to them, use the warm-path-finder skill.)
  5. Portfolio fit & conflicts — analogous wins that build appetite, and any direct competitor in their portfolio (usually a hard blocker; flag it).
  6. How they decide — partnership process, speed, check/ownership targets, whether they lead or follow, board involvement — whatever is publicly known.
  7. Reputation / founder-friendliness — signals from public founder references, their content, how they behave in downturns. Flag both green and red. Be fair: report what's sourced, label opinion as opinion.
  8. Contact path — how they want to be approached (submit form, warm intro preference, public email), and whether a warm path likely exists.
  9. Smart questions to ask them — 4–6 specific questions that show the founder did the work and surface whether this investor is right for them (reserve, follow-on behavior, where they add value, recent exits/markups).

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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 · 84 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 9bf1ed050045

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investor-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository oncesylvia/fundraising-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,110 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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