Diagnose Before It Gets Expensive

Separate what you believe from what you've actually proven. This check rates your startup against the Evidence Ladder across desirability (do they want it?), viability (can it make money?), and feasibility (can you build it?)—with market commitment, not opinions, as the standard.

A rigorous 30-point stress test for your business model. Does anyone actually want this (desirability)? Can it make money (viability)? Can you build it (feasibility)? Plus: strategic defensibility and external risks that could kill the venture.

Find the gaps before investors do. This stress test validates your venture across 5 critical dimensions: founder conviction (will you survive setbacks?), market desirability (behavioral proof, not verbal enthusiasm), competitive position, organizational feasibility, and financial viability.

Competitors can copy your features by next quarter. Can they copy your position? This 40-question audit stress-tests your timing, structural moats, customer lock-in, and execution advantages to reveal whether you're building a fortress or a sandcastle.

Does this idea deserve your resources? This check evaluates readiness across 3 dimensions: market & strategy (is the "why" solid?), tech & execution (is the "how" clear?), and finance & legal (should you do this at all?)—revealing if you're speculating or investing.

Is external noise hijacking your decisions? This check separates what you can control from what you can't—competitors, critics, market chaos. Stop wasting energy on distractions and focus on the levers that actually move your business.

Should you pursue this idea? A 25-question assessment that stress-tests your concept across problem clarity, user adoption, habit formation, social proof, and business resilience. Find fatal flaws before investing serious resources.

A strategic framework that stress-tests your assumptions against market dynamics, product economics, and founder psychology to determine whether bootstrapping, venture capital, or alternative financing is the right path for your venture.

Identify your biggest vulnerabilities across technology, market, and execution before investors do.

Cut through polite encouragement to find real demand. Based on The Mom Test methodology, this check reviews behavioral proof—not opinions—across 5 dimensions: context anchoring, pain intensity, solution viability, commitment signals (time, reputation, capital), and budget authority.

A forensic 25-question diagnostic that separates real market demand from polite validation theater. Built on the Mom Test methodology, this assessment measures problem reality, active search intent, emotional urgency, solution clarity, and commitment evidence. Stop building solutions in search of problems.

A 25-step reality check to verify if your venture is built on facts or assumptions. This tool validates market demand, execution capability, and financial viability using established venture capital principles.

Are you building a company or just a job for yourself? This check evaluates organizational independence across 5 dimensions: decision delegation (who can decide without you?), information architecture (documented or in your head?), operational rigor (standardized processes?), strategic clarity (validated model?), and founder detachment (can you let go?).

Turn vague assumptions into clear agreements before signing anything. This protocol aligns co-founder expectations across 4 critical areas: financial architecture (equity, dilution, runway), operational cadence (work intensity, decision authority), strategic vision (funding, exit goals), and governance (legal structure, buy-sell provisions).

Evaluate your customer discovery interviews against 35 quality indicators. Determine if you are collecting real market signals or just polite feedback. Use this tool to correct habits before building the wrong product.

Uncover the 5 cognitive biases that sabotage product decisions: Confirmation Bias, Status Quo Bias, Anchoring, Loss Aversion, and Pro-Innovation Bias. A tactical self-assessment for founders and product leaders to identify blind spots.

An assessment that surfaces the early warning signals of operational burnout in founders and key operators. This evaluation identifies which domain is most compromised before the erosion becomes visible to your board, your team, or yourself.

Where do you actually stand? This reality check maps your founder readiness across 4 domains: commercial acumen (can you make money?), execution discipline (can you ship?), leadership maturity (can you build a team?), and market strategy (do you know what sells?).

Is your leadership style optimized for scale or anchored in technical perfection? This check analyzes 25 real-world scenarios to reveal your natural archetype—Laboratory Mindset or CEO Mindset—and provides actionable steps for the founder-to-CEO transition.

A tactical gut-check for founding teams before it's too late. This check exposes misalignment across 4 critical areas: vision & exit (same definition of "winning"?), governance & control (who breaks the tie?), money & risk (runway transparency?), and market urgency (desperate need or polite interest?).

Discover your innovation DNA. Are you a bold risk-taker or a careful optimizer? Do you rethink entire systems or perfect the details? This profile reveals how you approach uncertainty, make decisions under ambiguity, and create change—with strategies to maximize your impact.

When facing uncertainty, do you trust your gut or demand data? This check reveals your natural decision-making style across 5 domains: product, team, strategy, funding, and crisis—helping you understand your leadership instincts and blind spots.

Is your leadership style blocking growth? This check examines your decision habits, data usage, hiring approach, and identity attachment. Discover if you're building a scalable machine—or if you ARE the machine that can't scale.

Your startup has runway—but do YOU? This check calculates if your personal savings, support network, and mental resilience can survive the pre-revenue desert. Know your personal survival timeline before you burn the boats.

What's really blocking your execution? This self-assessment diagnoses your personal bottleneck across 4 dimensions: strategic confidence (do you trust your decisions?), bias for action (do you engage or avoid?), executive composure (can you stay calm under pressure?), and adaptive resourcefulness (can you pivot when stuck?).

Discover if you have the patience, resilience, and strategic thinking required to build a deep tech company.

A diagnostic framework that identifies your primary operational bottleneck and maps it to the specific hire that will unlock your next stage of growth. Stop hiring based on what other startups do. Hire for the constraint actually blocking your business right now.

It's not what you know—it's how you decide. This scenario-based analysis puts you in 35 real crisis situations: a pulled term sheet, a co-founder conflict, a 2 AM server crash. Your instinctive responses reveal operational patterns that predict success or failure under pressure.

Big-picture thinker or data-driven realist? Structure lover or agility seeker? This profile maps your default professional operating modes across four dimensions—revealing how you naturally approach work, decisions, and collaboration.

Discover your natural work style: Do you generate ideas alone or in groups? Do you prefer real-time collaboration or async focus? Find out where you get creative energy and how you best influence others.

How AI-ready is your product team? This check assesses your AI adoption across 5 lifecycle stages: discovery (finding opportunities), planning (building business cases), design (prototyping), development (coding with copilots), and go-to-market (predicting adoption).

A comprehensive assessment that evaluates your product, market, business model, competitive landscape, founder profile, and capital requirements to determine whether bootstrapping or venture capital is the optimal funding path for your specific situation. Based on 40 strategic factors across 8 dimensions.

How healthy is your engineering pipeline? This check analyzes delivery velocity, system stability, cultural health, architecture maturity, and operational friction—identifying the specific bottlenecks between code commit and production.

Is your MVP truly minimal or a bloated V1 in disguise? This check evaluates problem clarity, validation evidence, execution reality, and your ability to say "no"—exposing scope creep before it kills your runway.

Are you optimizing for technical perfection or commercial viability? This check reveals if you're building an exquisite museum piece or a scalable business—across engineering, supply chain, GTM, culture, and finance—before your runway ends.

Identify safety gaps before they become costly recalls. This check maps your robotics system against ISO 13482, 10218, and 26262 standards—charting your path from MVP (Minimum Viable Product) to MSP (Minimum Safe Product) with actionable compliance milestones.

Is your product designed responsibly? This check identifies ethical risks across 5 domains: data practices and consent, manipulative design patterns, social/environmental impact, failure mode testing, and governance structures—before they damage user trust or brand reputation.

What fidelity level and tools fit your constraints? This selector analyzes your problem clarity, stakeholder politics, team resources, technical capacity, and market speed to recommend the right prototyping approach—from paper sketches to production-level builds.

What's the real purpose of your prototype? This check analyzes your strategic intent, stakeholder literacy, team dynamics, and organizational culture to determine if you're building to learn or to convince—and what fidelity that requires.

Are your product decisions building a coherent strategy or a fragmented Frankenstein? This situational check evaluates how you navigate the tension between user demands and product vision across 25 high-stakes scenarios—covering vision adherence, technical stewardship, market sensitivity, ethical governance, and stakeholder politics.

Are you building for the Enterprise fortress or the Consumer viral loop? Assess your product, market, and team DNA to align your strategy with your reality.

Are you competing to be "better" in an existing category or creating something "different"? This check reveals if you're an Optimizer or a Category Creator—across strategy, product, marketing, sales, and culture—and whether your execution matches your ambition.

Are you building real loyalty or just competing on price? This 25-question check reveals how deeply your product is woven into customer habits, identity, and trust—the advantages competitors cannot copy. Dimensions: functional empowerment, trust architecture, habit integration, identity signaling, and perceived fairness.

Should you charge a flat subscription or usage-based fees? This strategic assessment analyzes your value mechanics, buyer behavior, and operational readiness to determine whether you belong in Path A (The Gym) or Path B (The Utility) — and helps you escape the Deadly Middle.

Market size isn't everything. This check reveals the true friction of winning a segment by analyzing switching barriers, problem urgency, price sensitivity, tribal connectivity, and market momentum—determining if you're riding a wave or swimming upstream.

Should you build a walled garden or an open ecosystem? This diagnostic maps your integration posture across control, API architecture, partner economics, and value capture. Avoid the "Lonely Island" trap where strategic ambiguity kills growth.

Stop gambling with your runway. This assessment examines your proposed growth channel against 40 critical checkpoints across strategy, economics, measurement, and execution. Surface blind spots before you spend.

Should your SaaS pursue a Luxury strategy (high-touch, high-value) or Massification (high-volume, low-friction)? This check analyzes market, product architecture, unit economics, GTM motion, and org DNA to prevent the costly mistake of getting stuck in the strategic "middle ground."

Stop treating fundraising as a sale. This reverse due diligence protocol evaluates potential investors across 35 critical checkpoints covering fund structure, governance terms, crisis behavior, and actual value-add. Know who you are getting into bed with before you sign.

Stop guessing. This 25-point review examines your actual resources, market evidence, and operational capacity to determine your realistic Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM). Designed for founders who need to prove execution readiness.

A strategic assessment of your retention mechanics and scalability. This tool helps you decide between a Tool-First (Single-Player) or Network-First (Multi-Player) strategy—and identifies if you are stuck in the "Deadly Middle" where growth stalls.

Should you charge premium prices and serve fewer customers with white-glove service, or optimize for volume with self-service and aggressive pricing? This diagnostic analyzes your product, market, and economics to determine whether a luxury or mass-market strategy will maximize your SaaS business value.

Is the market pulling your product, or are you pushing a boulder uphill? This 25-question scan evaluates your real product-market fit signal across five dimensions: pain urgency, value proposition, traction, business model, and timing.

How should you sell your software? This check analyzes 5 dimensions to reveal your optimal GTM motion: product complexity (instant adoption or setup required?), market dynamics (red ocean or blue?), pricing economics (what can you afford to spend?), buyer behavior (who holds budget?), and team DNA (builders or sellers?).

Are you building for speed or defensibility? This diagnostic reveals your strategic orientation across product, IP, market, team, and risk. Avoid the dangerous middle ground where startups stall—commit to a clear strategic identity.

Is your startup built for Science Risk or Market Risk? This DNA check reveals your venture's true origin—inventor's workshop or desperate user—and identifies whether your validation signals, metrics, and market position match your actual venture type.

Assess whether your financing structure can sustain the long development cycles of science-based ventures.

Evaluate your go-to-market alignment. This strategic assessment analyzes the fundamental tension between Product-Led (Gatherer) and Sales-Led (Hunter) distribution models to identify whether your pricing, product complexity, and buyer dynamics are aligned—or trapped in the costly middle ground.

A forensic examination of your venture's vital signs. This assessment separates genuine product-market fit from subsidized momentum, identifies the specific bottleneck strangling your growth, and delivers a clear diagnosis with actionable remediation. Built from post-mortems of failed unicorns and playbooks of category winners.

Are you building a deep Vertical Specialist or a broad Horizontal Platform? Most startups drown in the "Shallow Ocean"—stuck between both. This check analyzes your market, product, GTM, culture, and capital strategy to reveal your true positioning.

Spot practical risks in Shadow IT, AI development ethics, and EU AI Act readiness.

Are your communication habits fueling innovation or killing productivity? This check reveals if you've built an async-first culture that protects deep work—or a reactive meeting machine that fragments your team's focus and drains their energy.

Can your team actually execute? This check reveals hidden blockers: founder blind spots, team silence cultures, customer adoption friction, weak narratives, and crisis unpreparedness. Strategy fails when human factors are ignored.

Don't guess. Score your opportunity based on evidence of budget, urgency, and friction. Find out if they will actually pay.

A 30-point diagnostic that examines whether your organization can maintain decision velocity, information fidelity, and strategic alignment as headcount grows. Surface cultural debt before it compounds into operational paralysis.

How future-proof is your business? This 25-question assessment evaluates your digital maturity across strategy, culture, technology, data, and customer experience to help you prioritize your transformation roadmap.

Not all feedback deserves your attention. This check helps you separate signal from noise by evaluating four factors: the source's credibility, the content's actionability, your emotional state, and the system's reliability.

Are you building a Lab (research-driven, control-focused) or a Rocket (growth-driven, scale-focused)? Many founders get stuck in the "Deadly Middle"—wrong funding for their DNA. This check analyzes your mindset across ownership, risk, decision logic, velocity, and commercial orientation to reveal your optimal path.

Where is your organization leaking value? This check identifies bottlenecks across 5 domains: revenue capture, operational efficiency, risk management, brand loyalty, and strategy execution—revealing where friction silently erodes your competitive advantage.

Cut through founder optimism with clinical precision. This forensic assessment determines—based on VC kill criteria and unicorn post-mortems—whether your startup needs optimization, a hard pivot, or immediate cessation. Evaluates: market truth (real demand?), product retention (leaky bucket?), unit economics (can it generate cash?), team psychology (paralyzed by sunk costs?), and execution velocity (can you move fast enough?).

Can you sell your vision before you have a product? This 25-question scan evaluates your founder sales DNA across five critical dimensions: storytelling, commercial drive, resilience, customer empathy, and deal mechanics.

Should this initiative move forward? A 25-point analysis across 5 dimensions: strategic logic (does it matter?), operational capacity (can you build it?), financial reality (is the budget real?), organizational alignment (who's blocking?), and decision quality (are you being honest?).

Do you have what it takes for real co-creation? This check evaluates readiness across 5 dimensions: strategic scope (problem complex enough?), cultural maturity (can people speak freely?), stakeholder dynamics (aligned incentives?), operational capacity (facilitation, tools, budget?), and governance (can you act on results?).

Are you prepared for real customer discovery or just setting yourself up to hear polite lies? This check exposes gaps in 4 areas: strategic alignment (who are you talking to?), tactical scripting (will your questions get facts or fiction?), pipeline logistics (enough strangers to call?), and execution discipline (can you handle the truth?).

Is your venture built to move fast or built to last? This strategic check analyzes your risk tolerance, financial model, leadership style, operational habits, and market position to reveal your true growth DNA—and whether it matches your ambitions.

Are you executing like a high-growth startup? This check measures three pillars: customer validation (are you talking to strangers?), skin in the game (are you truly committed?), and iteration speed (how fast do you ship?)—revealing if you're an Owner or a Tourist.

Churn does not happen overnight. It leaves a trail of signals across four pillars: engagement depth, relationship health, sentiment patterns, and operational friction. This assessment walks you through 30 leading indicators to surface the hidden vulnerabilities in any account before renewal conversations begin.

A readiness assessment that identifies whether your organization has the operational infrastructure, product stability, market traction, and financial discipline required to scale without breaking. Based on research showing 74% of startup failures stem from scaling too fast, too soon.

Beyond the mission statement, what actually drives your organization? This check maps the hidden dynamics: your origin story, how work really flows, unwritten cultural rules, emotional undercurrents, and the narrative arc you're following—revealing what's truly shaping decisions.

Find the invisible barriers dragging your team down. This check diagnoses 5 friction sources: Not-Invented-Here syndrome, past success blindness, legacy inertia, HiPPO decision-making, and failure hiding—giving you a specific action plan to regain speed.

Find the bottlenecks killing your team's speed. This check diagnoses 5 decision blockers: approval latency, role confusion (who decides?), data gaps, fear of dissent, and strategic misalignment—giving you a specific action plan to unblock decisions.

Assess alignment with Accel London's thesis-driven approach — their disciplined methodology that maps entire market ecosystems before making investment decisions. Accel London backs founders building category-defining companies across Europe and Israel, with a current focus on AI-native applications, agentic workflows, and cyber-resilience infrastructure. Built from publicly available publications, interviews, and documented investment patterns. Not affiliated with Accel.

Assess alignment with Astella's "disciplined operator" thesis — their rigorous approach to Brazilian B2B SaaS that demands proven GTM execution, healthy unit economics, and founders who obsess over metrics before asking for capital. Astella backs operators who build sustainable businesses, not fundraising machines. Built from publicly available publications, interviews, and investment criteria. Not affiliated with Astella Investimentos.

Assess alignment with Bossa's "Smart Money" thesis — their high-volume micro-VC approach that invests in hundreds of Brazilian B2B SaaS companies, combining capital with active mentorship and network access. Bossa filters ruthlessly for clean cap tables, operational discipline, and the "casca grossa" required to survive Brazil's hostile startup environment. Built from publicly available pitch analyses, interviews, and investment criteria. Not affiliated with Bossa Invest.

Assess alignment with Canary's conviction-driven thesis — their concentrated approach to Brazilian tech that prioritizes exceptional founders over market timing, backing outliers with the resilience to build category-defining companies in Latin America's largest economy. Canary deploys patient capital with deep founder support through the inevitable hard moments. Built from publicly available interviews, fund materials, and investment criteria. Not affiliated with Canary.

Assess alignment with CAOS Focado's "Scientific Entrepreneurship" thesis — their venture builder model that functions as an institutional co-founder for deep tech ventures rooted in hard science. CAOS Focado demands methodological discipline, market obsession, and willingness to trade autonomy for operational infrastructure. Unlike traditional VCs, they take larger equity stakes in exchange for hands-on co-founding support across legal, HR, finance, and go-to-market. Built from publicly available methodology publications, portfolio analysis, and documented selection criteria. Not affiliated with CAOS Focado.

Assess alignment with Cherry's "Operator-VC" thesis — Europe's founder-first early-stage fund built by operators from hyper-growth companies who filter ruthlessly for team signal, European sovereignty potential, and the execution velocity required to build category-defining continental champions. Cherry uses AI-powered sourcing to find high-signal founders before they fundraise. Built from publicly available articles, interviews, and portfolio analysis. Not affiliated with Cherry Ventures.

Assess alignment with Creandum's documented investment approach — their high-conviction, early-stage strategy that has backed category-defining European companies from seed to global scale. Creandum prioritizes founders who combine relentless product obsession with global ambition. Built from publicly available blog posts, interviews, and investment criteria. Not affiliated with Creandum.

Assess alignment with Earlybird's documented investment approach — their data-driven, high-conviction strategy combining deep technical rigor with commercial velocity. Earlybird prioritizes ventures with defensible technology, clean structural foundations, and founders committed to global scale. Built from publicly available blog posts, interviews, and investment criteria. Not affiliated with Earlybird Venture Capital.

Assess alignment with Fly Ventures' documented investment approach — their "Day Zero" first-check strategy backing technical founders solving hard computational problems. Fly Ventures prioritizes extreme technical pedigree, proprietary architectures over API wrappers, and builders over consultants. Built from publicly available blog posts, newsletters, and investment criteria. Not affiliated with Fly Ventures.

Assess alignment with Heartcore Capital's consumer-focused investment thesis — their conviction that the next generation of category-defining companies will democratize access to essential services for the mass market, not optimize convenience for the wealthy few. Heartcore backs founders who build products that are loved, not just used. Built from publicly available publications, interviews, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with Heartcore Capital.

Assess alignment with HV Capital's dual-culture investment philosophy — the fusion of Munich's financial rigor with Berlin's aggressive growth ambition that has produced European category leaders across B2B marketplaces, fintech, and deep tech. HV Capital seeks outlier companies capable of dominating continental markets and returning entire funds. Built from publicly available publications, interviews, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with HV Capital.

Assess alignment with IDL Ventures' cross-border Deep Tech platform thesis — their specialized approach to backing international startups addressing global challenges in climate, health, and food security through a "softlanding" ecosystem that bridges innovation hubs to the US market. IDL evaluates ventures using technology readiness metrics rather than traditional SaaS benchmarks, with extended timelines appropriate for science-based commercialization. Built from publicly available materials, documented investment criteria, and ecosystem partnerships. Not affiliated with IDL Ventures.

Assess alignment with Index Ventures' transatlantic thesis — their documented focus on born-global companies that bridge European engineering depth with American commercial scale. Index Ventures backs founders who embrace chaos, build category-defining businesses, and think globally from day one. Built from publicly available research including their published frameworks, expansion guides, and talent handbooks. Not affiliated with Index Ventures.

Assess alignment with Iporanga Ventures' disciplined investment philosophy — the fusion of quantitative fund rigor with investment banking precision that hunts for superior technology teams attacking deep market redefinitions in Latin America. Iporanga reviews over 1,500 companies annually but invests in less than 1%, demanding exceptional team composition, financial literacy, and structural market opportunities. Built from publicly available publications, interviews, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with Iporanga Ventures.

Assess your startup's alignment with Kaszek Ventures' investment thesis. Based on their documented "scarcity mindset" and operational excellence criteria derived from the MercadoLibre DNA.

Assess your startup's alignment with KAYA VC's investment thesis. Based on their documented criteria for backing intrepid CEE founders building category-defining global companies.

Assess alignment with Kima Ventures' "Human Machine" thesis — their velocity-obsessed approach that funds approximately one hundred startups annually, filtering ruthlessly for execution speed, learning curves steeper than growth curves, and founders who ship embarrassing first versions rather than polishing perfect ones. Kima backs founders who mirror their own operational DNA: machine-like efficiency combined with human conviction under ninety percent uncertainty. Built from publicly available interviews, published investment frameworks, and portfolio analyses. Not affiliated with Kima Ventures.

Assess alignment with LocalGlobe's seed-stage investment approach — their conviction-driven model that prioritizes founder trajectory over static business plans, values ecosystem integration, and backs ventures built for the full journey from seed to public listing. LocalGlobe looks for missionaries building category-defining companies, not mercenaries chasing exits. Built from publicly available interviews, published materials, and documented investment patterns. Not affiliated with LocalGlobe or Phoenix Court.

Assess alignment with MAYA Capital's "Zero to One" thesis — their hands-on, talent-centric approach that backs founders solving structural LatAm problems through technology. MAYA prioritizes talent magnetism, pan-regional scalability, and operational partnership over passive capital deployment. Built from publicly available interviews, portfolio analysis, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with MAYA Capital.

Assess alignment with Monashees' "Global Latam" thesis — the pioneering firm that has backed category-defining companies across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia since 2005. Monashees filters for founders who combine operational resilience with regional ambition, seeking ventures that solve real efficiency gaps while maintaining software-like economics. Built from publicly available interviews, portfolio patterns, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with Monashees.

Assess alignment with NXTP Ventures' B2B thesis — the pioneer of early-stage enterprise technology investing in Latin America. NXTP has evolved from a broad accelerator to a precision B2B fund, filtering for founders with what they call "superior motivation" alongside rigorous unit economics. They seek verticalized solutions that can achieve $100M+ ARR, demanding both the obsession to build and the metrics to prove it. Built from publicly available interviews, portfolio patterns, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with NXTP Ventures.

Assess alignment with ONEVC's cross-border "sniper fund" thesis — their highly selective approach that backs founders building category-defining companies in Latin America with global ambition. ONEVC operates from São Paulo and Silicon Valley, maintaining concentrated portfolios where each investment receives deep operational support. Built from publicly available interviews, portfolio analysis, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with ONEVC.

Assess alignment with Partech's transatlantic thesis — their multi-stage platform spanning seed to growth across Europe, Africa, and the US. Partech values capital efficiency, founder resilience, and structural hygiene. They operate through specialized funds including dedicated vehicles for emerging markets and impact investments. Built from publicly available fund documentation, partner interviews, and investment criteria. Not affiliated with Partech.

Assess alignment with Point Nine Capital's thesis-driven B2B SaaS investment approach — their mathematical frameworks that test whether your business model obeys the fundamental laws of SaaS physics. Point Nine evaluates startups against rigorous benchmarks including customer acquisition economics, revenue retention, and the relationship between price point and go-to-market channel. Built from publicly available frameworks, published benchmarks, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with Point Nine Capital.

Assess alignment with Project A's "Operational VC" model — their distinctive approach that combines capital with hands-on support from 140+ functional experts in engineering, marketing, data, and talent. Project A distinguishes between "fixable flaws" they can repair and "fatal flaws" that disqualify investments. They seek founders with data discipline, technical pragmatism, and the humility to leverage operational support. Built from publicly available interviews, partner profiles, and documented investment criteria. Not affiliated with Project A Ventures.

Assess alignment with the investment philosophy that shaped Brazilian venture capital through the Redpoint eventures legacy and its successors. This diagnostic evaluates founders against the documented selection criteria that produced multiple billion-dollar outcomes from the Brazilian ecosystem. Built from publicly available interviews, portfolio analyses, and documented investment frameworks. Use this to identify gaps before approaching investors in this lineage.

Assess alignment with Seedcamp's documented investment philosophy — the "First Cheque, World Stage" approach that prioritizes spiky founders with relentless execution velocity over polished presentations. Seedcamp invests at the point of maximum uncertainty, seeking founders who will succeed regardless of funding but faster with their network. Built from publicly available partner interviews, investment frameworks, and the documented "Village" model. Use this to identify gaps before approaching Europe's pioneering pre-seed investor.

Assess alignment with Sequoia's "company-building" thesis — their conviction that legendary companies emerge from obsessive founders with earned secrets, attacking markets capable of $10B+ outcomes at precisely the right moment. Sequoia pioneered the "Why Now" framework, Pre-Mortem exercises, and backs missionaries over mercenaries. Built from publicly available interviews, frameworks, and investment criteria. Not affiliated with Sequoia Capital.

Assess alignment with Speedinvest's documented investment philosophy — the "Operator-VC" model that combines sector-specific thesis teams with rigorous North Star metrics evaluation. Speedinvest operates as a federation of specialized micro-funds (Fintech, Deep Tech, Marketplaces, Industrial Tech, SaaS, Health), each with its own benchmarks and due diligence networks. Built from publicly available partner interviews, the Marketplace Scorecard framework, and the "Speedinvest Pirates" metrics guide. Use this to identify gaps before approaching one of Europe's most data-driven pre-seed and seed investors.