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I believe deal flow is destiny. If you have incredible deal flow, then the companies you select and your criteria becomes more discerning.

Join the Movement

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 ?

Ulysse Laroche

Writer at the Rookie VC and investor at Evolem.

Scouts are the people founders call before they go raise.

Matt MacInnis

Scouted Notion, ex-CEO Inkling

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.

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.

A lot of women entrepreneurs reach out to me, because there are still too few of us and it’s my mission to change that. The diligence items we go through as scouts also help me think more objectively about my own company.

Clara Shih

Founder and executive chair of Hearsay Systems

Accel has found a simple way to make it stand out from the crowd: it’s given each scout a bucketload of capital.

Amy Lewin

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