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👀 Get first dibs on new scout programs and VC openings.
✨ Get deal memo feedback and investor intros.
✌️ 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 →Your community, region, or group thrives when its founders are given the chance to succeed before going back and reinvesting in their comunities.
Explore →Earn a share in startups you scout without the funds to invest directly just like a VC partner.
Explore →As 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 →By 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 →Help your friends who are neck-deep in their startups get the funding they need to succeed.
Explore →Apply 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).
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Accel has found a simple way to make it stand out from the crowd: it’s given each scout a bucketload of capital.
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.
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 ?
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.
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.