Hi  @Mattias Wahl

,

Firstly, I want to thank you for pausing and asking us this before outreach! This is a signal we need to do better explaining this in-product.

They are experienced, institutional-grade investors from our community, for your use. For brand-new managers though, they may not be your target LP, as you will likely want to spend more time targeting those close within your network at first.

You may note that we added these contacts without email addresses, and only on Linkedin. Our intended pattern here is that you can look through the pipeline (it may be easiest if you expand the width of the "quick note" column) to find any LPs that could potentially be aligned with your thesis. From there, see if you have any linkedin mutual connections in your network that could make an introduction. 

I'll tag in  @Mike Suprovici

 if he'd like to add anything here.

It's a lot of work to research LPs. So, we are trying to help make this process easier. That being said, you still need to apply best practices to connect with them, which include:

1. Never EVER cold email LPs
2. Always find an introduction
3. Target the LP at the right time etc...

These LPs are institutional. This means that they are not going to invest in a Fund 1 and often not Fund 2 either. However, because they are institutional, GPs need to spend 1-3 years developing relationships with them before getting an investment. So, we thought it was important to shortcut some of this process by doing the research for the community.