Pre seed

Most pre-seed lists I see are a scrape: a public directory plus a Twitter follow list, 400 names, almost no replies.

The list is not the work. Matching is. Stage, check size, whether they wrote a first check in the last 12 months, and whether they even do your sector.

What I use as a filter before anyone gets an email:

1. Wrote a pre-seed / first-check in the last year

2. Sector overlap, not "we invest in everything"

3. A real way in (warm, or a reason they would care)

Curious how others build that first 50 now.