The worst outcome of a fundraise is not rejection. It is six weeks of politeness that ends in silence. We built our process to make that impossible.
Any partner, any channel, no introduction needed. We answer within three business days. If we are not the right firm, that reply says so and names two who might be.
One hour with the partner who would sponsor the investment. We spend most of it on the problem and the customer, not the market size slide.
Three to four hours on the real substance of the business. You will meet a second partner. We will disagree with each other in front of you, which tells you more than a polished pitch would.
Four to six calls, always with your knowledge. We ask your customers what would happen if your product disappeared tomorrow.
The partnership meets on Mondays. You hear the outcome that day, with the reasoning. A yes comes with a term sheet in the same week and no exploding deadline attached.
A term sheet in plain English, usually under three pages. A price we can defend, a board seat only if we lead, and standard terms with no participation, no ratchet, and no surprises in the long-form documents.
We will also tell you what we are worried about, in writing, on the same day we commit. Those concerns become the first things we work on together.
A written explanation naming the specific thing that stopped us, not a paragraph about focus or timing. If the reason is us rather than you, we say that too.
We will tell you what would change our mind, and we mean it. Nine companies in the current fund were passes we revisited later.
The pass was more useful than most of the term sheets we received. They named the one thing that was actually wrong, and they were right.
We take one board seat when we lead and we treat it as a job rather than a right. Meetings run for two hours, decisions are made in the room, and we send our thoughts before the meeting instead of performing them during it.
We do not block financings we dislike if the founder and the lead are aligned. We do not shop your company. We do not talk to your competitors about you, and we say so in writing at the start.
Send the note. We will read it, and either way you will hear back inside three days.