Every deal should make you smarter.
Most of what you learn on a deal ends up in folders and people's heads. Dealforge keeps it connected, so the next company you look at starts where the last one ended.
Your deals already send signals. Nothing connects them.
Ten calls a day, a data room on Wednesday, IC on Thursday, notes in five places. Dealforge wires it into one system, so every file, call and contact lands where it belongs.
Sound familiar?
The questions every investment team asks, and what Dealforge gives you back.
"I know we've researched this before. Where is it?"
Every company, memo and decision your team has made, kept with its reasons and ready to reuse.
"The deck looks great. But do the numbers hold up?"
Independent research, the data room and benchmarks held against the pitch, with every discrepancy flagged.
"Does anyone in my network know the founders?"
Your team's contacts mapped onto every founder, customer and competitor. Real relationships only.
"What do I need to know before my next meeting?"
A brief, the risks that matter and the questions to ask, with every claim backed by evidence.
"I know we've researched this before. Where is it?"
Every company, memo and decision your team has made, kept with its reasons and ready to reuse.
"The deck looks great. But do the numbers hold up?"
Independent research, the data room and benchmarks held against the pitch, with every discrepancy flagged.
"Does anyone in my network know the founders?"
Your team's contacts mapped onto every founder, customer and competitor. Real relationships only.
"What do I need to know before my next meeting?"
A brief, the risks that matter and the questions to ask, with every claim backed by evidence.
The hardest part of investing shouldn't be finding what you already know.
What you learn on one deal stays for the next: every company you looked at, every claim you checked, every person who can help. Twenty deals in, you know the market, and who knows it.
Know what you've looked at.
Every company from every deal, by segment and stage, with how you judged it and why.
See what to look at next.
The players that keep coming up, the segments you haven't covered, and the companies that grew after you passed.
Know who opens the door.
Who can get you in, who you can ask for diligence, and who can add value to your portfolio companies. From your team's real contacts, never a guessed intro.
Every angle. One picture.
Good investing is triangulation: what the founder says, what the market shows, what the numbers say and what your network knows. Dealforge brings all four into one investment case, with every discrepancy flagged and what to do about it.
Decisions take five years to prove themselves. Your memory should last longer.
When you decide, Dealforge locks in a snapshot of everything you knew: the research, the data room, the model and the reasons. Years later you can see exactly what you knew, and why you decided.
People forget.
Outcomes arrive years after decisions. People change seats in between. The memo becomes a PDF in someone's drive, and the reasons you passed are gone.
"Didn't we look at them two years ago?"
"Why did we pass, again?"
"Who here knows anyone at this company?"
A typical day of a VC partner.
Nine conversations, two data rooms, a partner meeting, a decision, an LP update and an event at night.
Everything in orange happens without you. The conversations stay yours.
Focus on your relationships. We've got the rest.
Deals are won over coffee, on calls and at dinners. Dealforge does the research, the checking and the remembering in between.
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