How we evaluate a company
We use the same five stages for every company. How each one plays out can adapt to the company. We use AI to sort the evidence, and people make every decision.
Initial screen
Our own software checks each company's team, technology, market and traction against our own criteria. Our team reviews what it finds.
Founder diligence
General Partners question the founders on their claims, market and business. Most of all, can this team get machines working for paying customers?
Specialist evaluation
Technical experts and operators test whether it can be built, whether the timing is right and what could go wrong in the field. Sometimes a partner goes to see the machines running.
Weighing the evidence
That same software gathers everything from the earlier stages into one file. Where experts disagree, or questions are still open, the file says so.
Decision
Each General Partner forms their own view. We only invest if every one of them says yes.
How long it takes depends on the company, the evidence and the deal timetable.