Update Templates
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The Visible “Standard” Investor Update Template
Our Standard Monthly Investor Update template put together from best practices and tips from Visible users.
byFounders Investor Update Template
The recommended investor update template from the investors at byFounders VC.
The Visible Seed Stage Update Template
Communicating with your investors in the early days can be a great way to secure future financing, find new customers, and hire top talent. We recommend sending an Update on a monthly basis at the seed stage. You'll be able to make any tweaks and changes you'd like in Visible:
Precursor Pre-Seed Update Template
Precursor ventures is an early stage venture firm focused on classic seed investing. Check out their preferred Update template below:
Jason Lemkin Investor Update Template
The following template is based off of a Jason Lemkin blog post, "10 Hacks to Have Happier Investors." In the post Jason states, "Send out Monthly Investor Updates — 48 Hours After the Month Ends. This is your best hack. The key here is not to spend a ton of time on it." Jason goes on to explain what he likes to see in an update which is laid out below.
NextView Ventures Seed Investor Update
The following is an email Update template from the team at NextView Ventures. NextView Ventures is a hands-on seed venture capital firm based in Boston. The text below is quoted directly from the NextView template.
Visible Lite: Pre-Traction Template
This template is intended for companies that are pre-traction/revenue. Even if it is simple, sending Updates from day 1 is a great way to stay top of your investors mind's moving forward.
Bloomberg Beta Investor Update Template
Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture fund backed by Bloomberg that invests in startups making work better, focusing on machine learning. They prefer to be the first capital into a company. The template below is based off of the update template in their manual for startups.
Founder Collective “Fill-in-the-Blank” Investor Update
An investor Update template for busy founders put together by the team at Founder Collective. Simply fill out the bolded sections and have your investor Updates out the door in no time.
Kima Ventures Update Template
An Update template put together by Jean and the team at Kima. Quickly fill in the quantitative and qualitative data Kima finds most useful.
Shoelace: Investor Email
A template based off of Reza Khadjavi's, Founder & CEO of Shoelace, investor update email used to wow investors.
Coding VC: Investor Update
An investor update template from Leo Polovets, the general partner at Sosa Ventures.
Digital Currency Group Update
A monthly investor update template recommended by the team at Digital Currency Group.
Chris Redd Investor Update Template
Chris Redd is an angel investor based out of Louisville, KY. The following template is based on Chris Redd's LinkedIn post, "Important Details To Include In Your Investor Update." The text in blue is directly from the post.
86 Repairs Quarterly Investor Update
This is the template that Daniel Estrada, CEO and Co-Founder of 86 Repairs, uses for his quarterly investor updates. Daniel finds the "How can you help" section to be the most valuable section of his quarterly updates.