π Meet other scouts globally.
π Get first dibs on new scout programs and VC openings.
β¨ Get deal memo feedback and investor intros.
βοΈ Learn and grow together as a community!
Showing your skills in picking successful startups and advising founders is the surest way to build your reputation and secure a venture capital role.
Explore βYour community, region, or group thrives when its founders are given the chance to succeed before going back and reinvesting in their comunities.
Explore βEarn a share in startups you scout without the funds to invest directly just like a VC partner.
Explore βAs a podcaster, community manager, or event organiser you have a front-row seat to interesting startups which you can monetise by helping them fundraise.
Explore βBy identifying under-represented founders you're level the playing field for anyone to success based on merit independent from their social or ethnic background.
Explore βHelp your friends who are neck-deep in their startups get the funding they need to succeed.
Explore βApply to join as a scout. We welcome people from all backgrounds and walks of life with a genuine interest in helping startups.
Send us startup funding deals you come across using our deal memo template.
When VC's decide to invest in your referred startup, you are reserved a share of the the investor's future profits (otherwise known as carry).
Weβre seeing some investment in areas which are not the ones weβre spending a tonne of time on at seed-stage. Our starters community is taking our interest towards areas we didnβt know existed.
If you want to eventually work at a venture fund, the VC partners will look at your scout track record.
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: itβs given each scout a bucketload of capital.
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.
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