VC Outreach Emails — Pre-Seed $2M Round
Founder: Kevin Davis
Contact: kdavis@evergrn.co
Ask: $2M pre-seed
Stage: Pre-production, MVP functionally complete
Email 1 — NFX
Subject: Evergrn — Two-Sided Home Services Marketplace for Rural America (Pre-Seed, $2M)
Hi [Partner Name],
I'm Kevin Davis, a systems engineer with 14 years in tech and the founder of Evergrn — a two-sided marketplace connecting homeowners with local service professionals for lawn care, snow plowing, and home repair.
The contrarian bet: we're not building for Boston or San Francisco. We're building for the 60 million Americans in rural and small-town markets that TaskRabbit, Handy, and Thumbtack have never touched. Penobscot County, Maine is our Phase 1 cluster. The playbook then replicates ZIP-cluster by ZIP-cluster across rural New England and beyond.
The network effects are local and defensible by design — once we own the supply side in a ZIP cluster, a national competitor can't parachute in and undercut us. That's the moat.
Where we are:
- MVP functionally complete — iOS app, web portal, and full provider-side workflow live
- End-to-end Stripe payment processing at an 18% platform take rate
- Built and shipped solo as a technical founder — no agency, no outsourcing
- Raising $2M pre-seed; projecting 15% MoM GMV growth with a $17.5M annualized run rate by Month 36
I'd love 20 minutes to show you the product. Happy to send a demo video first if that's easier.
Kevin Davis kdavis@evergrn.co
P.S. I've read your writing on why network-effect businesses win at the local level before going wide. Evergrn is built on exactly that logic — local density first, then scale.
Email 2 — Javelin Venture Partners
Subject: Evergrn — Home Services Marketplace (Pre-Seed) — You Backed Thumbtack, We're Building What They Missed
Hi [Partner Name],
I'm Kevin Davis, founder of Evergrn and a 14-year systems engineering veteran. I'm reaching out because Javelin backed Thumbtack early — and I'm building what Thumbtack never addressed: the rural and small-town home services market.
Thumbtack, Handy, and Angi are optimized for urban density. Pull up their coverage maps and you'll find the same white space I did — tens of millions of homeowners with no reliable on-demand option for lawn care, snow plowing, or basic home repair. Evergrn fills that gap with a ZIP-cluster rollout strategy designed for low-density markets.
The business:
- Two-sided marketplace — customers post jobs, professionals bid, Stripe handles payment end-to-end
- 18% platform take rate, pure transaction revenue, no subscription or lead-fee model
- iOS app and web portal both live, MVP functionally complete
- Raising $2M pre-seed — 4–6 years of runway to prove the cluster model and expand across rural New England
I'm a technical founder who built the full stack myself. I know how to be capital-efficient.
Would you have 20 minutes in the next few weeks? I can send a demo ahead of time.
Kevin Davis kdavis@evergrn.co
P.S. Happy to share our full business plan including the rural ZIP-cluster rollout model and Month 36 projections.
Email 3 — First Round Capital
Subject: Evergrn — Pre-Seed Home Services Marketplace, Built for the Markets TaskRabbit Never Reached
Hi [Partner Name],
I'm Kevin Davis — systems engineer turned founder. I've spent 14 years building and running technical infrastructure, and I've spent the last several months building Evergrn: a home services marketplace for the rural and small-town markets that every major player in this space has ignored.
First Round backed TaskRabbit before it had traction. I'm asking for the same bet — on a market that's bigger and less contested than anything TaskRabbit was chasing in 2008.
The $600B home services industry is almost entirely offline outside major metros. Evergrn brings it online with a two-sided marketplace: homeowners post jobs, local professionals bid, Stripe captures payment at an 18% take rate. Our go-to-market starts in Penobscot County, Maine — a deliberate rural-first cluster strategy that builds local supply density before expanding.
Snapshot:
- iOS app + web portal live, MVP functionally complete
- Full job lifecycle: posting → bidding → scheduling → payment → review
- Pre-seed raise: $2M for 4–6 years of runway
- Month 36 target: $17.5M annualized GMV run rate at 15% MoM growth
I built this myself. I know the stack inside out and I know how to operate lean.
Can we find 20 minutes? I'm happy to do a live demo or send a recorded walkthrough first — whatever's more useful.
Kevin Davis kdavis@evergrn.co
P.S. If it's helpful context — the same infrastructure that powers Evergrn's job workflow also handles provider scheduling, conflict detection, real-time photo documentation, and Stripe auth-and-capture. The technical foundation is production-ready.
Target Partners
| Firm | Partner | Direct email | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| NFX | James Currier / Pete Flint | james@nfx.com / pete@nfx.com | Warm intro preferred via signal.nfx.com; cold: qed@nfx.com |
| Javelin Venture Partners | Prashant Fonseca | prashant@javelinvp.com | info@javelinvp.com; 525 Market St Suite 700, SF 94105 |
| First Round Capital | Josh Kopelman / Brett Berson | josh@firstround.com / brett@firstround.com | Strongly prefers warm intro; format: first@firstround.com |
Follow-up sequence
- Day 0: Send initial email
- Day 5: Follow up with a 2-min Loom demo link if no response
- Day 12: One final bump, offer to share business plan PDF