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).
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.
If you want to eventually work at a venture fund, the VC partners will look at your scout track record.
The best source of info on scout programs, so great job!
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.
Theyβll never get enough credit for this, but one thing Sequoia did was use scouts to radically increase the amount of diversity in the industry.