I believe that for the stage at which I invest (seed / preSeries A), startup founders should reach out directly to investors. In my view, fundraising is as important as business + operations, and cannot be outsourced. There are also significant advantages to the founder putting efforts to raise including faster and direct feedback from investors.

I have written about these views publicly. This tweet thread gives you a glimpse into my views.

https://twitter.com/sajithpai/status/1595593698007556098

I don't expect everyone to agree with them. And certainly as an investment banker, you certainly won’t. That is absolutely fine.

I am happy to hear directly from the founder you are representing, but I won’t be able to take this email ahead as it stands. I mean no disrespect but these are my principles.

You are welcome to write to my other colleagues at Blume if you wish. Many of them don’t agree with these views of mine. This is my view, and not my firm’s view.

I may / may not be able to respond to your follow up mail on this topic given the large volume of mail i get.