How to Source Deals Through Warm Intros
The best deals come through trusted relationships, not cold inbound. Here's how to find and use the warm paths to the founders and targets you want in front of.
What a warm path looks like in Draftboard: the connector, a 0-100 relationship score, why it's strong, and a one-click intro request.
Step by step
- 1
Add the founders, companies, or targets you want to reach
Paste LinkedIn URLs or upload a CSV of your deal list or watchlist.
- 2
Draftboard maps your network and scores the paths
It finds who can reach each founder or target, each scored 0-100 by relationship strength.
- 3
Review the warmest paths
Sort by relationship strength so you focus on the intros most likely to land.
- 4
Request the intro through a trusted connector
A portfolio-founder or mutual intro lands where a cold note from a fund does not.
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Optional: narrow the results
Tag your partners, LPs, and portfolio founders as supporters to filter paths down to the people who want to help. Or run a Supporter Search to scan a specific person's network for matches, a different, more targeted play.
What you'll have at the end
A warm sourcing channel into founders and deals through your fund's relationships.
Try it on your own list
Warm intros convert around 30-40% where cold outreach lands under 1%. Add your targets and see the warm paths you already have. Free to start, no credit card.