For venture capital funds
People Partner for fintech and AI-native venture funds.
61% of founders rate VC value-add below average. We close that gap. Embedded talent partner for your fund — without the in-house cost, and with productized methodology your portfolio actually wants to use.
What an embedded partnership looks like.
Office hours for your portfolio
Monthly group office hours for portfolio CEOs, plus on-demand 1:1 office hours for Heads of People across portcos. The difference between “the fund supports talent” and actual talent support.
Quarterly Manager Operating System Index
VC-branded research on portfolio people benchmarks. Your fund logo, our methodology, joint distribution. The kind of proprietary research a16z Talent and First Round Talent ship internally — externalized for your fund.
Founder onboarding kit
When a new portco closes, a 30-day people-function onboarding sequence delivered jointly. New founders get help in the first 30 days — not asking for it nine months later when something breaks.
Quarterly portfolio review
Health check on people-side risk across portcos for your partnership team. Manager loading, retention risk, comp drift, compliance exposure — all surfaced before they become deal issues.
Exec search facilitation
Warm intros, candidate screening, and reference work for portfolio exec searches. We don’t run retained search; we partner with retained firms — and we make the work better on both ends.
Crisis Rapid Response
When a portco is on fire — RIF, exec exit, investigation, public incident — we ship in 24–72 hours under your fund’s umbrella. The single highest-value referral path in venture.
How it works.
- · Multi-year retainer (24-month default)
- · Modest monthly fee at the fund level — scales with portfolio size
- · Exclusive within vertical: one fintech VC partnership at a time, one AI-native partnership at a time
- · Right of first refusal on portco engagements
- · Portco engagements priced at standard tiers (with discount available through partnership)