Diligence your investors
Before investors lead a round in your company, they check you deeply. The market, the team, the numbers.
You, on the other side, commit to someone who will accompany you for years based on a few meetings and gut feel.
And the unfair part: investors are the hardest to replace. A team can change, a product can be fixed. Whoever sits on your board, much less so. They will stay through hard rounds and hard decisions. And not every good investor fits every company.
Most founders do not stop to check. In the middle of a raise there is no time, and early on it is not always clear what to even ask.
We built a tool that moves the power to you: run due diligence on your potential investors. It gathers public information and organizes it into one picture. The fund's history, attribution at the level of the specific investor rather than the fund, how much they actually helped their companies with follow-on rounds, talent, and customer introductions in good moments and hard ones, and the questions and references worth talking to before the meeting.
Yes. We are a fund, and we built a tool that lets founders check funds. Including us.
That is not an accident. Information symmetry is healthy for both sides, and it lets the relationship start from a different place.
The tool stores nothing. What you enter and what it produces is deleted after viewing, and no one at Grove sees it.
The important part: whoever you take money from, check them at least as carefully as they check you.