For Founders, At Every Stage
From your first idea to your growth round, we build the right introductions to investors who genuinely fit, backed by real preparation and our name behind you.
Every stage
Open your stage to see the challenge founders face there, and how we solve it.
Problem
At pre-seed, you have no network to lean on, and nobody to vouch for you yet. But the real risk sits earlier: most pre-seed startups are challenged by problems that have nothing to do with fundraising skill.
Scale
60 to 70% of pre-seed startups are never able to raise a follow-on round. The causes are structural, not cosmetic.
Why it happens
It's rarely about fundraising skill. Founders are juggling everything at once, and some of what matters most for a raise is easy to miss while you're building the actual business.
How we help
We know exactly how to solve this. At such a nascent stage of your business, when we onboard you to get funded, we ensure that all these flags are mitigated.
How we solve it
We stress-test exactly what hinders companies at this stage: market need, team dynamics, and early traction signal, not a polished deck or a five-year model. We work on selective, highly weighted areas to ensure you can continue building and raising today and in the future.
That's where we focus your preparation, because that's how you go from founders to becoming market players for the long run.
Sources: CB Insights, Startup Genome, Carta
Problem
You've found early product-market fit, first users, first revenue, real signals. Now those signals need to hold up under real investor scrutiny, while you race the clock on runway.
Scale
The median seed round now sits at $4 million on a $16 million pre-money valuation. Getting there usually means contacting 200+ investors, running 60+ first meetings, and working through 20 to 30 deep follow-ups and 5 to 7 diligence tracks, just to land 1 or 2 term sheets.
Why it happens
By seed, founders are stretched between building and pitching at the same time. At this stage founders often struggle with equity valuations due to access to the right capital, and this can have lingering implications for the next round you raise.
How we help
We know exactly what it takes to get you across this line. When we onboard you, we close the gaps that actually stall a seed round, and get you in front of the right people faster.
How we solve it
At this stage, we take a product centric approach. We gauge the business economics and financial model in place, and ask the right questions about customer retention and the feedback mechanism between your product and the market. Then we facilitate the access to help you go from promising to proven.
Problem
The bottleneck at Series A isn't really about you. It's structural: seed funds have multiplied while the Series A door hasn't widened to match.
Scale
Seed funds have more than doubled since 2018, and the ratio of seed to Series A rounds has stretched from roughly 1:1 to 5:1. Because it now takes $2 million to $5 million in ARR to clear the bar, up from roughly $1 million in 2018, the wait between rounds has stretched to 774 days, forcing 46% of seed deals into bridge rounds just to survive the wait.
Why it happens
It's less about any one company falling short, and more about a pipeline that's outgrown its own exits. Startups end up stuck in a queue that's five times longer than it used to be.
How we help
By now, you've done the hard part: found product-market fit, proven demand in a market that's buying, and built a team that's expanding. Our real job at this stage is facilitating the channel, in a landscape where the standard path has narrowed significantly.
How we solve it
We listen first, evaluate the layers of your business, understand exactly where the pain is, and make sure a meaningful idea actually ends up on the table, in front of the investor directly, prepared and packed like a deal.
Sources: Carta State of Private Markets, Theory Ventures, Strata Capital Partners
Problem
You've hit revenue at scale, and now the underwriting standard changes entirely. Series A asked if you could replicate your sales. Series B asks if you can scale profitably and survive the kind of scrutiny public markets apply. Your governance, management, and your integrity in running the business matter more than ever.
Scale
A clean Series B now requires $5 million to $10 million or more in ARR, alongside metrics growth funds treat as non-negotiable: a Rule of 40 score above 45%, and net revenue retention above 120% at the top quartile.
Why it happens
Reaching investors at this stage isn't about getting an introduction anymore. Diligence now runs 9 to 12 weeks, term sheets carry critical structural terms, and valuations get benchmarked against market realities, which may pose a challenge if founders have something else in mind.
How we help
By now, you've built a real business at scale. Our job at this stage isn't advisory in the traditional sense, it's building the channel to the right growth investors, and making sure the governance debt that's invisible at Series A doesn't become the reason this round stalls.
How we solve it
We read through your KPIs, your data room, and your governance to the standard growth investors actually underwrite against, then map you directly to PE firms, growth funds, and family offices whose mandate genuinely fits. That's where we bring our full alignment, because we are not challenging the need for 9 to 12 weeks of diligence, we are challenging the time it would save if you raised your funding in the right way, at the right table.
Sources: Carta, Crunchbase, Opagio, Zeni
What We Offer
The same at every stage.
Access
Our focus is on accessing and opening the right doors for you. Yours should be on your venture. Not the other way round.
Preparation
We've been on your team since day one of engagement, so walking into that room becomes the least uncertain part of your raise.
Credibility
When we truly believe in what you're building, we put our credibility behind it.
Alignment
We win only when you do.
The Engagement
Here's our roadmap for your path to the right capital.
Tailored. Every step of the way.