A first-time seed fund with an alumni network: Attio build: LP pipeline, deal pipeline & alumni community database

In one line. 80x stood up Attio as the system of record for a first-time seed fund built around a professional alumni network, a 7-stage LP fundraising pipeline, a deal pipeline, and an alumni community database, off a paid technical audit and a weekend build.

Client & context

A first-time-GP seed fund built around a professional alumni community: 100+ founders, tech-executive angels, and relationships with 50-60 VC firms. It ran deal flow on Airtable and LP tracking on a separate fund-admin CRM. Standing up a reliable LP fundraising system was the top priority.

The problem

The LP fundraising CRM was the bottleneck. The fund needed one reliable system of record that could track a live raise, run deal flow, and, critically for its edge, manage the alumni founder community and startup database, working from a large legacy dataset.

What we built

• A $1,000, 6-hour technical audit and blueprint covering data model, API review and cleanup assessment.
• A 7-stage LP pipeline in Attio (Qualified → Outreach → Soft pitch booked → Actual pitch booked → Send follow-up → Waiting for decision → Willing to invest), with LP record creation gated behind an approval task triggered off Sidecar.
• An Active LPs database migrated from a Sidecar CSV: committed amounts, wire status, entity structures (LLC/Trust), commitment dates and standardized quarterly reporting.
• A general-purpose VC data model, LPs, fundraising, deal pipeline, basic event management, built as a reusable template.
• A deal pipeline with anti-portfolio / previous-stage tracking and a Clay enrichment-first workflow, plus a three-tier community structure: core alumni founders, an extended network tier, and the startup database.
• Loom documentation and team training.

How we did it

Delivery ran through hands-on technical workshops so the GP could capture the nuances directly. 80x taught the Attio model, objects vs lists, the relationship engine, custom objects for strict intake, then did a weekend build (Friday evening to Monday) of the core data model with documentation and video. Migration was phased: clean datasets first, larger ones scheduled later.

Outcome

• 18 LPs migrated from Sidecar into Attio.
• The LP pipeline supports $1.605M committed plus ~$500K in soft commitments.
• 79 confirmed alumni founders catalogued, against a 350+ company alumni-founder database.

Takeaway: A first-time GP got a single Attio system of record, LP raise, deal flow, and a 79-founder alumni community, plus a reusable VC data-model template.