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You backed the founder.
Who is building the product?
Legal covers the terms. Technical covers the stack. Commercial covers the market. None of them answer whether this team can hold a direction once sales pressure arrives.
Partners and investment directors · Seed to Series A · The deal seat
You will do your own read
This is not a substitute for it
You sourced the deal.
You have been building conviction for weeks. That is the job, and it is also why you are the least neutral reader of it in the room.
You are reading a founder. We are reading an organisation.
Whether a founder is exceptional and whether the company around them can ship are different questions, answered by different evidence.
The pattern shows up after the money lands.
Roughly four in five companies in a seed portfolio we classified had no empowered senior product owner. Every one of them had been through somebody's diligence.
Start from the deal in front of you
Two reads on the same target, one diligence budget
On the record
“… He doesn't jump to solutions. He gets to the crux of the problem first, builds solid hypotheses, and does the foundational research to back them up. The rigor was real. …”
Meet us before you need us.
A diligence window is weeks. That is not long enough to find someone and work out whether to trust them.
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