Skip the swamped CEOs. Go after early and senior engineers at Series B+ US tech companies heading toward IPO, where the equity is real, the concentration risk is real, and the inbox is not a war zone. Round 2 starts LinkedIn-only and manual: connect with no note, then one warm human message, then value, then a call. Email layers in as phase 2 once the ball is rolling. The wedge stays the same: liquidity and diversification without selling.
Profile visit, connection request with NO note. The messages do the work after they accept.
Warm, zero ask, zero finance. A checkable fact from THEIR profile tied to the company mission. Written per person from their real LinkedIn data.
"Different topic, feel free to ignore." Their specific equity situation, the wedge in one idea, one small ask: want me to walk you through it?
Honest filter (who this is NOT for), then the ask: 15 minutes with a fiduciary before the first liquidity window. Junior leads get "you don't need me yet."
Any reply kills the script and starts a real conversation. Akiva takes over. Nothing automated lands after a human speaks.
Every lead below carries their own M1, M2, and M3 in the amber strip under their row, each with a copy button. The mold for M1 is a real message that got a reply: "Aaron, as someone who earns almost exclusively in stablecoins I long for the day when every merchant in the world is using Silo." A fact plus a mission, no ask. Akiva: read each message aloud before sending; if a line is not something you would say, tweak it. The facts underneath are real. The same 19 sequences as a lemlist-ready file: download the CSV ↓
| Name | Role (headline) | Company | Sector | Location | Trigger |
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Sourced live from LinkedIn via LinkdAPI (current-employee filter on the verified company ID). Real profiles, not search guesses. Titles are their own headlines. ~90 more engineers matched across these eight companies, available on request. Sequences written 2026-07-05 from full profiles (career path, education, recent posts): nothing generic, Daniel Parker's M2 knows he holds SpaceX paper from seven years there, Ben Geist's knows he can price a collar himself from DRW. Flags for Akiva: two M1s reference your PIMCO past (Ed Shrager, Ben Geist), confirm you want that used; the junior leads (Aaryam, Chandra, Karan) get an honest "you don't need me yet" M3 on purpose, that honesty is the brand. (Sunny Kudum was dropped 2026-07-05: intern, likely no equity.) Full profile digests: stqcap/preipo-outbound-v1/profile-digests.md.
Manual first, automate what proves itself, add channels last. Each phase starts only when the previous one earns it.
{{m1}} → {{m2}} → {{m3}}. Every lead's row carries their whole sequence; lemlist pauses a lead on any reply.While Round 2 waits on approval, we built the discovery engine for the next target list. Every US private raise must file a Form D with the SEC within 15 days, whether or not the press covers it. We swept the last 45 days of filings: 4,722 Form Ds → dropped 2,785 pooled investment funds → dropped everything under $10M and non-US → 529 real companies that just raised, of which 104 are tech by the SEC's own industry field. Sanity check: the sweep independently rediscovered Baseten ($1.1B sold, filed June 30) and Ramp ($782M, June 17), the companies this page already targets. It also surfaced raises almost nobody is covering: Supabase $440M, Kraken (as "Payward") $354M, CesiumAstro $271M, Generalist AI $364M.