


Luckily, tools like Clearbit Connect can make it really easy to get email address data in less than 5 seconds. Why: After you identify an interesting company that you want to contact, finding the founder’s email address is an important yet sometimes tricky job.What’s most helpful are the email analytics (email opens, reply) and the email sequences when you need to remember to follow up with a founder you sent an email to. I’m also a huge personal fan of Mixmax which is an email editor built on top of Gmail. I’ve found myself getting to inbox zero more quickly, and features like “instant intros” + “snippets” shave off a few seconds here and there which can really add up. However, Superhuman ($30/month) makes replying to emails a delight. Why: I don’t have any major issues with Gmail and Outlook as email clients.Today I wanted to share what I view as the best-in-class tools for venture capitalists in 2020! Email Clients

Throughout the years, I’ve evaluated countless tools for VCs to figure out what else on the market I could use to be better at my day-to-day job as an investor. I worked in venture capital for the last 4 years at firms like Insight Partners ($20b AUM, 300+ investments in Qualtrics, Alteryx, Smartsheet, etc.) and SignalFire ($800m AUM investments in Grammarly, Roman, One Signal, etc).
