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What we tell founders before they raise

Written by the operators and vetting specialists doing the matching. No ghostwriters, no listicles.

Featured · Fundraising

The investment readiness checklist for UK founders

The eleven things a UK seed investor checks before a second meeting, and how to have all of them ready before you send a single deck.

8 min read

Investor fit

A framework for diligencing investors: thesis fit, behaviour in a bad quarter, reserve strategy and the reference calls most founders never make.

7 min read

US expansion

Entity structure, timing, narrative shift and the introductions that matter when you take a British company to American investors.

9 min read

Expert partnerships

Why an operator who has already sold a business changes your odds more than another cheque, and how to use one properly.

6 min read

Fundraising

Retention, payback, pipeline quality and margin honesty: the four numbers that decide a seed round, and how to present them.

7 min read

Founder wellbeing

Fundraising is a rejection-heavy sales process run while doing your day job. Structuring it so it does not break you is part of the strategy.

5 min read

When you are ready to test the theory, the readiness check takes two minutes and tells you the truth.