Investor Support Services

Early-stage portfolios are risky.

Founders face endless workloads, competing deadlines, and scarce resources. The added complexity of working in sustainability makes it even harder. Sometimes the ball gets dropped.

Is this happening in your Venture portfolio?

Are you able to provide hands-on assistance to all your portfolio companies?

The traditional GP structure isn’t designed to help founders operate. Building a value-add platform for your portfolio companies is an expensive and time-consuming strategic commitment generally reserved for large VC firms.

A new model: Venture Platform as a Service. Contract-based Operator services to expand GP bandwidth when and where it is needed.

Reduce portfolio risk, increase returns.

 
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Why

The top-performing Venture funds have differentiated themselves from the competition by providing value to their portfolio companies above and beyond capital.

This creates a virtuous cycle allowing successful firms to accumulate more money and hire more people to meet the needs of their investees.

Small GPs can’t compete on headcount and resources. Small GPs need outsourced expertise and highly efficient programming.

How

Early-stage investments are unlike any other asset class. Long-term value creation at just one company within a portfolio can lead to outsized performance.

Petrichor Leap works alongside the venture team to identify value creation opportunities within the portfolio.

At the company level, we may explore “What is preventing this company from growing rapidly right now?”

Or at the VC firm level, we may ask “How can we incubate a new initiative to scale value across the portfolio?”

What

Petrichor Leap is here to provide the services that have been proven to improve VC portfolio performance.

Our programming is built on:

1. founder Ian DeWeerdt’s experience as an early-stage CFO scaling hard-tech environmental solutions.

2. a framework called TOPSCAN developed by David Teten, et al, which we highly recommend to everyone in the VC ecosystem.

  • Team Building, Operations, Perspective, Skill Building, Customer Development, Analysis & Network

 

Focus Areas:

  • Hardware Scale Up

  • TOPSCAN Implementation

  • Pre-seed to A Round growth

  • Circular Economy & Environmental Impact

  • Financial Review

  • How to effectively use an outsourced CFO/bookkeeper

  • Expense Controls

  • Go To Market Strategy

  • Human Resources

  • Fundraising

  • Strategic Partnership Acquisition

  • Budgeting

  • Vendor Management


 

Maximize Your Portfolio’s Impact

Reach out today to immediately expand your ability to execute.

Petrichor Leap is not a broker/dealer and does not perform placement services.