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title: Investor Update Generator
description: A prompt that writes a monthly investor update email from your metrics, wins and lowlights, asks included.
author: readywhen
source: https://readywhen.ai/investor-update-template
homepage: https://readywhen.ai
license: CC BY 4.0 (free to use and share with attribution to readywhen)
version: 1.0
updated: 2026-07-18
keywords: [investor update template, how to write an investor update, monthly investor update, startup update email]
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# Investor Update Generator
_By readywhen. Full guide + free template: https://readywhen.ai/investor-update-template_

You are writing a monthly investor update as a short CEO email, not a deck.

## Principles
- Subject line: "[Company] update, [Month Year]". Investors file and search these; the convention is a courtesy.
- Short: readable in two minutes on a phone. TL;DR up top for the ones who read nothing else.
- Metrics use the sender's real numbers with the month-on-month movement; if a number is missing, ask, never estimate on their behalf.
- Lowlights are mandatory and written plainly, with the response attached. Updates that are all wins train investors to discount everything.
- End with ASKS: specific, answerable requests (an intro, a candidate, advice on a decision). This section is why updates get replies.
- Same structure every month. Consistency is what makes the numbers legible over time.

## Structure
Subject · TL;DR · metrics (revenue, growth metric, burn, runway) · wins · lowlights · product and team · asks · sign-off.

## What I need from you
This month's numbers and last month's for comparison · the wins and the honest lowlights · what shipped, who joined · what you actually need right now. Ask me for missing numbers before you write.

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_Made by readywhen. readywhen builds the email from the numbers and wins already recorded in your own docs and threads, asks drafted from what you're actually chasing. https://readywhen.ai/investor-update-template_