Update Templates

500 Global is a venture capital firm with more than $2.7 billion¹ in assets under management that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth.

Our Standard Monthly Investor Update template put together from best practices and tips from Visible users.

This is a recommended template for Antler portfolio companies. Antler is the global investor backing the world's most driven founders, from day zero to greatness.

Keeping your investors in the loop is crucial for startup founders. Even by sharing a brief Update on a monthly basis, you'll be able to stand out from your peers. Check out our basic template below:

This template is intended for companies that are pre-traction/revenue. Even if it is simple, sending Updates from day 1 is a great way to stay top of your investors mind's moving forward.

The following is based off of the Y Combinator Series A Guide. The team at YC suggest that founders should write an investment memo when pitching potential investors. The memo is intended to be sent to investors before meeting with an investor. The text below is directly from the original YC template.

Tyler Tringas is the founder of Earnest Capital. Earnest Capital sends their own investor Update on a monthly basis and also request an Update from their portfolio Companies. From Tyler, "We ask all our portfolio companies to send a simple monthly update with 1/ Highlights for the month 2/ Low lights 3/ Asks & Where to Help 4/ Metrics, Graphs, KPIs." You can read more in Tyler's post, "Why you should send monthly advisor and investor updates."

Lolita Taub is an angel investor, General Partner at NexGen Partners, and Chief of Staff at Catalyte. Lolita generally invests in enterprise and insurtech startups. The template below was pulled from a recent Tweet by Lolita highlighting what she likes to see in her investor updates.