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How to Reach Angel Investors in the San Francisco Area for Agentic AI Startup?

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Hi All! We’ve recently launched a San Francisco-based Agentic AI startup. So far, we’ve organically built a waitlist of over 1000 users and converted some of them into paying subscribers without any marketing spend. With this early traction, we’re eager to scale our platform and attract enterprise clients. Given our progress, what strategies or channels would you recommend for connecting with angel investors in the San Francisco area? Any insights or advice on approaching potential investors effectively would be greatly appreciated!

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I'd suggest investing your time in the product first and converting the waitlist to real users before trying to take on external investment. It will either make it much easier or you won't need to raise depending on what happens when your product goes out to the 1000 user list.

We’ve converted some of them, but I want to provide a better user experience.

Plenty of angels on HN. Whats the startup?

Even though they are mainly for DevTools/Infra you can try https://buildrappo.com/

As an early-stage tech founder, I have met multiple leaders there who are also angels on the side. All the best.

Make friends with other entrepreneurs. Impress them and ask them for intros to their investors. If you're good, and your product is good, they'll want to introduce you as it looks good for them.

I have so many founder friends in SF, but their investors expect them to focus and work solely on their own thing.

I think you might misunderstand what I'm saying. An introduction is an email. If you already knew that, then you either misunderstand how the game is played, or your friends won't introduce you because they don't believe in what you're building.

Hey, happy to take a look - shoot me an email at levensti@gmail.com?

I'm not OP, but I'm working on an AI powered NoCode platform. Could I contact you once I have a prototype going?

Ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

I'll probably take a chance when I'm ready.

You're already ready Neo.

i'm building in the ai infra layer, could I reach out too?

guys: if you feel a need to ask for a permission to reach out - frankly I don't think you are "that guy"

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