Ready. Steady. Scout.
With the Superscout app, help your ecosystem startups thrive by connecting them with the capital they need to grow.
Are you a successful founder who others look up to as a role model?
Scout startups in your ecosystem →Are you active in the entrepreneurship club at your college? Doing an MBA? Or are you a PHD student at a technical university? Help your fellow students get funded.
Scout startups at your university →Do you help run a co-working space as an organiser or a greeter? Do you come across interesting entrepreneurs and startups?
Scout startups you sit next to →Do you interview founders & startups? Take your conversation insights to the next level by scouting your favourite podcast guests.
Scout founders you interview →Access to a growing set of resources to help you become a successful scout including our glossary, FAQ, in-depth guides, and free video course.
A supportive global community of startup enthusiasts like you to learn from and network with.
A fair compensation whenever you refer a startup that receives funding from our partners.
I guess the next and final question is: what kind of scout programmes can we build, drawing from the example the US and the UK has set for us ?
Accel has found a simple way to make it stand out from the crowd: it’s given each scout a bucketload of capital.
If you want to eventually work at a venture fund, the VC partners will look at your scout track record.
Superscout provides learning resources for current and upcoming VC scouts, a community forum, and tools to help scouts present deals and find the right investors to send them to.
We’re seeing some investment in areas which are not the ones we’re spending a tonne of time on at seed-stage. Our starters community is taking our interest towards areas we didn’t know existed.
They’ll never get enough credit for this, but one thing Sequoia did was use scouts to radically increase the amount of diversity in the industry.