Introductions that
went somewhere
Three founders, three very different problems, three introductions that changed what happened next. We've blurred the identifying details to protect members. The mechanics are exactly as they happened.
Connecting suppliers to enterprise buyers across three markets
Revenue, enterprise logos, a clean data room, and eleven rejections. One word in his pitch was quietly sending him to the wrong investors. Swapping "marketplace" for "procurement infrastructure" changed everything.
Read the case study → Consumer BrandFrom social-commerce audience to retail brand with real backing
She had built real demand from nothing. Then spent four months hearing that her margins were too low, from investors who were never going to fund a physical product anyway.
Read the case study → InfrastructureModernising township transport through technology
He asked us for investor introductions. The most useful thing we did was tell him not yet, and find him a co-founder instead. Capital was never the missing piece.
Read the case study →The thing all three had in common
Nobody here was short of ability or traction. In every case the blocker was identical, and none of them could see it: they were pitching the wrong room. A marketplace founder in front of consumer VCs. A consumer founder in front of software VCs. A founder trying to buy his way out of a technical gap with money.
This is the failure mode a network is good at killing. Everyone says "we know investors." Fine, so does everyone. The useful part is knowing whose thesis your business fits, and being willing to say so out loud before anybody wastes a month.
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