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Sourcing, diligence, and portfolio work across stages.

A startup directory that spans YC, a16z, Thiel Fellows, Show HN launches, and every SEC Form D private raise, plus AI discovery for anything else. Thesis-driven sourcing, founder outreach drafts, cap table and dilution math, term sheet analysis, investment memos, and public comps for late-stage rounds.

All roles
47
tools for this seat
6
specialties covered
103h
of analyst time per full pass
AIAnswers cite the filing they came from
Propose a tiered peer set for Snowflake and tell me where it trades versus the group.
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reading filings

The day, by level

Analyst / Associate

Sourcing lists, first calls, market maps, memo drafts, portfolio data collection. Triages hundreds of decks a month.

Principal

Owns theses and diligence: customer calls, cohort and unit economics, competitive mapping, term-sheet mechanics.

Partner / GP

Decides, negotiates, supports founders, and answers to LPs with DPI and TVPI.

What it takes off your plate

  • Building a market map by hand across YC, a16z, Product Hunt and LinkedIn
  • Checking whether a company has actually raised, and from whom
  • Cap table and dilution math in a spreadsheet that breaks on the next SAFE
  • Exit waterfalls with stacked preferences and participation caps
  • Writing the cold email that a founder will actually answer

Data behind it

  • •18,001 startups from YC, a16z, Thiel Fellows, Show HN, Form D and web discovery
  • •SEC Form D raises with amounts, dates and named officers
  • •Recent IPO comps as the late-stage valuation anchor
  • •Web research with citations for anything private

The toolkit

47 tools for venture capitalists

Valuation

7
Peer benchmarking
Growth, margins, cash conversion, and leverage versus a peer set, with the gaps explained.
DCF valuation
Unlevered free cash flow, two terminal methods, and a WACC × growth sensitivity.
WACC
Cost of equity via CAPM, after-tax cost of debt, and the weighted rate with a beta × ERP grid.
Round comparables
Is this price market? Stage, sector and geography comps with the percentile.
Public comps for a late-stage round
What the public market would pay, and what that implies for this private price.
Direct secondary pricing
What a block of private shares is worth, and the discount to expect.
Venture method valuation
From expected exit and target multiple back to the pre-money you can pay.

Diligence

6
Founder reference plan
Who to call about the founders, including the people they did not offer.
Customer & reference call guide
The script, the sample and the synthesis for customer diligence.
Diligence checklist by stage
The workstream-by-workstream list, sized to the stage and the cheque.
Cohort & retention analysis
Cohort triangles, NRR, GRR and churn from a raw subscription export.
Term sheet analyzer
Every term diffed against NVCA standard, with the off-market ones flagged.
Corporate VC strategic fit
Does this investment help the business unit, and what does the sponsor have to sign?

Research

5
10-K / 10-Q teardown
What changed, what management said, and what the footnotes hide.
Research brief
A sourced answer to any market, company, or deal question.
Startup deep dive
Everything knowable about a private company before the first call.
Competitive landscape map
Who else is building this, how they differ, and where the segment is crowded.
Market sizing for a startup
Bottom-up TAM from buyers and price, reconciled against a top-down check.

Modeling

5
NPV, IRR & payback
Capital budgeting on any cash-flow schedule with a discount-rate sensitivity.
Cap table & dilution
Price a round with SAFEs converting, the pool top-up, and ownership by holder.
SAFE-to-equity conversion table
What each SAFE actually converts into, and the effective valuation it paid.
Dilution path across rounds
Where founders, employees, the pool and each investor land after every round.
Exit waterfall & liquidation preferences
Who gets what at each exit value, and which classes convert.

Capital markets

4
IPO valuation & discount workflow
Comps to value, the IPO discount to a range, and what the range implies for ownership.
IPO comps from 424B4s
Every recent IPO in the sector: price versus range, spread, greenshoe, lock-up and aftermarket.
Follow-on & block pricing
Expected discount from size versus ADTV, deal type, seller and volatility.
SPAC economics & dilution
Cash delivered per share after redemptions, promote, deferred fees and the PIPE.

Screening

4
Hiring signal & momentum scan
Which companies on your list are accelerating, and which have gone quiet.
Deck screen & pass/advance note
First-pass triage of an inbound deck into a CRM-ready note with a decision.
SaaS metrics benchmark
Where a company sits against stage benchmarks, and whether it clears the bar.
SaaS metrics calculator
Burn multiple, runway, CAC payback, magic number, LTV/CAC and Rule of 40 in one pass.

Deliverables

3
Company one-pager
A pitch-ready profile of any US-listed company, every number cited.
Investment memo
The full memo in the house structure, with a recommendation and cited numbers.
IC pre-read & key questions
The two-page pre-read partners will actually read, plus the questions they will ask.

Sourcing & deals

3
Thesis-driven sourcing map
Turn a written thesis into a segmented market map with every named company you could invest in.
Form D raise monitor
Who just raised, how much, and who signed the filing.
Pipeline forecast
How many deals close and what they are worth, as a range, not a weighted total

Portfolio

3
Board meeting prep
Read the deck before the room: the three decisions, the numbers that changed, the questions to ask.
Pro rata cost calculator
What it costs to keep your ownership, this round and the next three.
Angel syndicate carry math
What the lead earns, what the backers net, across the outcome range.

Learning

2
Accelerator & program finder
Which programs, batches and fellowships fit a company or a founder profile.
How operators get equity
Advisor shares, angel cheques, syndicates, scouts and rolling funds, with the numbers.

Planning & forecasting

2
Fund model
Fees, pacing, reserves and a power-law outcome set into TVPI, DPI and net IRR.
Forecast with honest intervals
Paste a series, get the M4-style forecast and conformal 80%/95% bands with a backtest

Communication

1
Founder outreach email
A signal-anchored cold email under 200 words, plus the warm paths that beat it.

Reporting

1
Portfolio update / LP letter
The quarterly letter: new investments, markups, markdowns, DPI and what you are seeing.

Accounting & audit

1
Quarterly mark & valuation memo
Roll forward a Level 3 mark with a documented basis the auditor will accept.

Set up your venture capitalist desk

The survey asks your group, level and sectors, then wires the watchlists, function keys and tools to match.

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