Industry Experience
Seed · Series A-D · Growth · Crossover

Venture Capital

From founding-team scoring to crossover-round chair builds. We service the GP partnership and the portfolio-CEO bench under a single continuous mandate.

Venture-capital firms now expect the same evidentiary infrastructure for management diligence and portfolio support as their LPs demand of buyout GPs. We act as the embedded leadership-intelligence function for global VC firms across seed, Series A–D, growth and crossover rounds.

Global Practice Lead — Venture Capital
San Francisco · London (joint)
THE EVIDENTIARY RECORD
228
VC-firm engagements

Across seed, early-stage, growth and crossover venture funds.

12
Top-quartile VC clients

Including 5 of the top-10 by 2024 deployed capital.

1,420
Founding-team assessments

Continuous founding-team scoring delivered across pre-seed through Series C diligence.

184
Independent-chair builds

Independent chair appointments delivered for portfolio companies pre-IPO and at crossover round.

GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

228 mandates across four regions.

We deliver this sector out of five global hubs — Sydney (HQ), Singapore, London, New York and Dubai — anchored to discrete supervisory regimes. Regional Managing Partners hold the primary client relationship; the global sector lead governs methodology, calibration and quality.

Asia-Pacific
56
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

Sydney · Singapore · Tokyo · Bengaluru

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ANZ early-stage, ASEAN growth, Indian SaaS, Japanese deep-tech.

EMEA
82
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

London · Paris · Berlin · Tel Aviv

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UK Series A–C, French DeepTech, German Mittelstand-adjacent venture, Israeli cyber.

Americas
78
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

San Francisco · New York · Boston · Toronto

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Top-quartile multi-stage venture, US biotech VCs, Canadian growth.

Middle East & Africa
12
mandates delivered
Delivery Hubs

Dubai · Riyadh

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Sovereign-fund VC partnerships, MENA growth, regional climate-tech venture.

SECTOR CAPABILITIES

What we are calibrated to deliver.

Founding-team diligence

Pre-investment founding-team scoring delivered in 5–7 business days under absolute discretion.

Portfolio CXO bench build

VP-Engineering, VP-Product, CFO and CRO bench scoring tuned to scale-up cadence and Rule-of-40 trajectory.

Independent-chair installation

Pre-IPO and crossover-round chair appointments with combined operator and listed-entity governance credentials.

Founder-CEO operating-mode coaching

Continuous behavioural-telemetry capture across portfolio CEOs to instrument the founder-to-operator transition.

SECTOR RISK VECTORS

The exposure pattern we price into every slate.

Founding-team derailment

Single co-founder departure within 18 months of Series B closes a leading indicator of subsequent failed Series C.

VP-Product / VP-Eng churn

Concurrent VP-level departures in product and engineering correlate with 30%+ probability of failed next round.

Board-vs-founder governance crises

Sustained misalignment between founding team and board observer is a primary cause of down-round dynamics.

Crossover-round investor scrutiny

Crossover funds now apply listed-entity-grade governance diligence at Series D and later.

SIGNATURE MANDATES

Anonymised by code; defensible by record.

Every engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion. The mandates below are surfaced with code, region, remit and outcome — the underlying entity, candidate and counterparty detail remains under confidentiality envelope and is only disclosable on engagement under reciprocal NDA.

VC-NA-027
Americas
Top-quartile multi-stage VC · Portfolio CXO bench audit

Refreshed CXO benches across 38 portfolio companies; pre-empted 5 forced replacements and supported 11 successful next-round closes.

VC-EU-014
EMEA
UK Series B–C VC · Founder-CEO transition coaching

Embedded behavioural-telemetry capture across 22 portfolio CEOs; reduced board-vs-founder governance crisis incidence by 64% year on year.

VC-AP-008
Asia-Pacific
ASEAN growth VC · Independent-chair installation across 9 portfolio companies

Installed independent chairs ahead of crossover round; 6 of 9 cleared crossover with reduced governance-conditioning.

VC-ME-003
Middle East
GCC sovereign-fund VC partnership · Founding-team diligence framework

Built sovereign-grade founding-team diligence framework; now applied across 80+ deployed investments annually.

SKILLS-MATRIX ANCHORS

The regulatory regimes encoded into every successor score.

Each successor in this sector is scored against the regimes below. The skills-matrix is refreshed continuously by the firm's Regulatory Architect team as supervisory expectations migrate — the most recent calibration was applied to every live slate in the current quarter.

ILPA Principles 3.0 (venture annex)

LP-facing governance expectations encoded into portfolio-CEO scoring.

SEC Private Fund Adviser Rules · UK FCA AIFMD

GP regulatory regime encoded into firm-level governance attestation.

NIST AI RMF · EU AI Act

AI-deployment governance encoded into deep-tech founding-team scoring.

EU GDPR · UK DPA 2018 · CCPA / CPRA

Data-protection reflex encoded into VP-Engineering and General Counsel benches.

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Brief the Venture Capital practice lead.

Every sector engagement opens under NDA-by-default discretion and is governed by the regional Managing Partner. Initial briefings are conducted in person or under secure-channel video — never over open email.