Work / Venture Capital
Three hundred decks this quarter.The next generational founder is in your inbox.You will scroll past them.
An associate would have read the deck, mapped the market, scheduled the references, drafted the memo. They would have flagged the founders worth meeting and the rounds worth tracking before they closed. They would have written the brief on the competitor that raised last month and the regulatory question your committee will ask.
The diligence the round needs has always been a team's work. Most small funds do not have a team.
Tacita does the work.
The work
Sourcing. Every deck that lands in your inbox read end to end, structured against your sectors and stage. The introductions worth taking, surfaced. The ones to pass on, drafted into a one-line reply. Market context attached to the founders worth a second look — recent rounds in the sector, competitors who have raised, the public posture of the funds you would coinvest with. The signal extracted from the inbox at the rate the inbox fills.
Diligence. The work a top-tier fund's analyst would produce on the deals you take to a second meeting. Founder background through their public record. Competitor mapping with positioning, timing, capital structure, and known traction signals. Reference questions drafted from the gaps the public record leaves. Technical and regulatory questions raised against the round, with the open ones still open. The pack you would write yourself if the days were long enough.
Memo. First-draft investment memo in the form your partnership produces. Thesis, market, founder, traction, risks, terms — assembled from the diligence already done, with every claim tied to the source it came from. The committee reads a document that holds together. You spend the partnership meeting arguing the call, not defending the homework.
Portfolio. For the companies you have already backed, the same work continued. Quarterly metrics reconciled across formats. Competitor moves tracked at the cadence the market sets. Reference points for follow-on rounds kept current. The board pack ready before the founder asks. Quiet between updates. Sharp when something changes.
Our proposition
Where we'd start.
Bring us a deck. One you're keen on and don't have the week to do properly, or one you can't decide on, or one that came in this morning that you'd otherwise scroll past. We do the market map, the competitor brief, the founder background. You read what we produce and decide whether it matches what your top-tier coinvestor's associate would have written.
The work is the proof.
We work under standard NDA. The founder need not appear in our notes.
Show us the deck still open in your tabs.
Past it is the founder whose name will be on yours.