For Investors
Pre-screened founders, filtered to your thesis.
We read every application personally. Founders surface to you the moment they qualify, only the ones who fit what you back.
For Investors.
For Investors
We read every application personally. Founders surface to you the moment they qualify, only the ones who fit what you back.
For Investors.
How It Works
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Stage focus, sectors, check size, and what you wish you saw more of. The sharper this is, the better the founders we surface.
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Founders surface to you the moment they qualify against your thesis, with our stamped summary attached. Continuous, not batched.
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Every founder we route has been reviewed in full. Your time goes into real conversations, not first-line filtering.
What you receive
Each founder arrives with their deck, full application, and a short note from us on why they fit your thesis. You only see founders we have read in full.
You set the volume. Tell us how many founders a month you want to review, and we never exceed that number.
A note from the editor
The best funds rarely see the founders worth their time.
Inbound is broken. Cold deck, cold intro, cold DM. Partners spend hours reading applications that should never have reached them. The Shortlist filters at the door. By the time a founder arrives in your queue, they have already been read in full, mapped against your thesis, and stamped. That is the version of deal flow worth your hour.
The Shortlist Team
Partner spots are limited and reviewed monthly. Five business days to hear back.
The Newsletter
Each Thursday, one pattern from fifty real venture outcomes. Drawn from a16z, Sequoia, Redpoint, and the named failures other newsletters won't touch.