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VC partner email decoder
Type the firm's domain and the partner's name. Get the 5 most likely email patterns, ranked by how common each pattern is across 47,000+ active VC firms in our database.
Enter at least a first name and a firm domain to see likely email patterns.
Why this works
Across 47,000+ VC firms in our database, just 5 email patterns cover roughly 95% of all firm addresses. Once you have one verified address at a firm, the pattern is readable, and every other partner's address can be synthesized from it.
The full breakdown of pattern prevalence by firm size, vintage, and type is in our analysis: I mapped the email patterns of 47,000+ VC firms.
Verify before sending
Three free tools that confirm an address is live before you send:
- mailtester.com (free, no account, fastest)
- Hunter.io email verifier (25 free per month)
- The bounce-back test from a throwaway Gmail (60 second wait, no notice = address is live)
Questions founders ask
- How do I find a VC partner's email address?
- Find one verified email address at the firm (press contact, partner LinkedIn, recent press release), note the pattern (firstname.lastname is most common at 60%), then apply the same pattern to the partner you want to reach. Verify with mailtester.com before sending.
- What email pattern do most VC firms use?
- About 60% of VC firms use firstname.lastname@firm.com. The next most common patterns are firstinitiallastname (15%), firstname only (10%), firstnamelastname (8%), and firstname_lastname (5%).
- How accurate is this email decoder?
- The decoder generates the 5 most likely email patterns based on prevalence across 47,000+ firms. The top result hits about 60% of the time. We always recommend verifying via mailtester.com or Hunter.io before sending at scale.
- Is this legal?
- Yes. Synthesizing an email address from a public firm domain plus a publicly-known partner name is legal in every jurisdiction. The address itself is not private; the partner has chosen to be reachable. Cold emailing follows CAN-SPAM in the US (clear sender, valid physical address, opt-out) and GDPR's legitimate-interest provisions in the EU.
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