How to Get An Investment from Us
- USE OUR SUBMIT PAGE.
- Don't worry about a warm intro or sending us email first.
- Initial Response Time:
- Usually within a few waking hours. Never more than 2 business days.
- Check Size:
- $100K to $500K. Vast majority $150K to $300K.
- Total Round Size:
- $100K - $500K. (Occasional exceptions to $1M.)
- Valuation:
- $1M - $3M. (Rare exceptions to $6M with extreme traction.)
- Traction / Progress:
- Almost always $5K to $30K/month in gross profit. No ideas or prototypes.
- Sector:
- Anything in tech. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind.
- Headcount:
- Usually at least 2 full time founders. Often a few full or part time workers.
- Exit Potential:
- We are biased towards capital efficient business models that can produce strong investor returns at sub-$100M exits. (Though obviously we like $100M+ exits too.)
- Geography:
- Primarily US and Canada. Occasionally, Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand, but those deals must meet an even higher bar than normal.
Who We Are
- We're a technology startup investment firm focused exclusively on the pre-seed stage.
- With a portfolio of well over 1000 pre-seed investments and growing.
- Pre-seed isn't our farm system; it's our bread and butter.
- It's all we've done, all day, every day, since 2012.
- We strive to treat founders the way we would want to be treated.
- We don't waste time. If we're not going to invest, we say so as quickly as possible. If we are going to invest, we just get it done without delays.