Become a Superscout.

🌍 Meet other scouts globally.
πŸ‘€ Get first dibs on new scout programs and VC openings.
✨ Get deal memo feedback and investor intros.
✌️ Learn and grow together as a community!

As a Scout, You Can...

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Kickstart Your Venture Capital Career

Showing your skills in picking successful startups and advising founders is the surest way to build your reputation and secure a venture capital role.

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Help Your Ecosystem Thrive

Your community, region, or group thrives when its founders are given the chance to succeed before going back and reinvesting in their comunities.

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Earn a Share in Startups Without Investing in Them

Earn a share in startups you scout without the funds to invest directly just like a VC partner.

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Monetise Your Content & Community

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.

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Create a Fairer Society

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.

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Help Friends Get Funded

Help your friends who are neck-deep in their startups get the funding they need to succeed.

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Grow Your Personal Brand

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How It Works

Apply to Join

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 Relevant Deals

Send us startup funding deals you come across using our deal memo template.

Earn Your Carry

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).

Join the Movement

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Writer at the Rookie VC. Investor at Evolem.

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Amy Lewin

Deputy editor, Sifted. Covering startups and tech, backed by the FT

If you want to eventually work at a venture fund, the VC partners will look at your scout track record.

Elad Gil

Invested in Airbnb, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

The best source of info on scout programs, so great job!

Lenny Rachitsky

Author of Lenny's Newsletter, angel investor, and ex Airbnb growth leader.

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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Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley.

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.

Jason Calacanis

Early investor in Uber, Robinhood, and others. Host of the All In Podcast.