The Modern Dealflow Stack: From Inbox Chaos to a Scored Pipeline
Most early-stage dealflow runs on an inbox and a spreadsheet. The five-layer stack that replaces it, and where the money actually leaks.
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Sourcing, screening and managing early-stage deal pipelines
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Pre-Screening at Scale: Scoring Startups Before the First Call
How to score inbound startups before spending an hour on a call: the two-gate model, the four-dimension rubric, and the comparability problem.
The Investment Memo, Standardised: What Belongs in a Pre-Seed IC Memo
A one-page investment memo for pre-seed and seed: the nine blocks, what has to be falsifiable, and why you write it before the decision.
Proportionate Diligence: A Pre-Seed Checklist That Is Not a Series A Checklist
A pre-seed diligence checklist sized to a pre-seed cheque: what to verify in days, what to skip, and the four items that are never optional.
Adverse Selection: The Hidden Cost of Warm-Intro-Only Dealflow
Warm-intro-only dealflow is rational per deal and costly per portfolio. The economics of the deals you never see, and why the loss is invisible.
Why Diligence Takes Longer Than It Did in 2021
Diligence cycles lengthened during a year of record deployment. The counter-intuitive reason is throughput, not caution, and it is a data-format problem.
Angels and Micro-Funds: Running Real Diligence Without an Analyst Team
A solo investor's system for dealflow and diligence: the four-hour week, what to automate, and the syndicate division of labour.
You Cannot Compare Two Startups Today. Here Is Why That Is a Data Problem
Public markets made any two companies comparable through standard disclosure. Private early-stage markets still cannot compare two seed companies.
AI in Fundraising: The 2026 Market Map
Seven categories, the companies in each, and the gap nobody has filled. A map of the tools reshaping how early-stage rounds get raised and evaluated.
What AI Agents Change About Diligence
When an investor's AI can query your company directly, the format of your data stops being a convenience and becomes visibility.