Daytona CEO: cold-emailed 600 investors for pre-seed, $1M to $100M in 4 quarters
mattturck · x · 2026-11-11
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin grew the company from $1M to $100M in four quarters, but says his pre-seed round required cold-emailing 400-600 hand-mapped investors. His rules: write emails like a tweet — a subject line that earns the open, then one long sentence with who you are, what you're building, and who backed you. Long emails don't get read; volume and brevity win.
Related event: Daytona grew ARR from $1M to $100M in four quarters(2 posts)→
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