A chief of staff for introductions, built for GPs who don’t have one
For investors at small funds and accelerators. When a founder asks who you know, the right person is in your network somewhere. Finding them takes half an hour you rarely have. ScoutBridge finds them each time and drafts the introduction for you to approve.
An introduction drafted by ScoutBridge arrives for Priya Raghunathan, a partner at Fieldhouse Ventures. She opens it, corrects one phrase from her own notes, notes that Dana replied to her last introduction in four days and that this is the last she will send Dana this quarter, signs it and approves it. It then sends from her own mailbox.
- To
- Dana Okafor, Larkspur Home Goods
- From
- Priya Raghunathan, Fieldhouse Ventures
- Subject
- Kofi Mensah at Halyard Freight, on returns
Dana,
When we spoke in March you said returns cost Larkspur more than anyone expected more than outbound freight. Kofi Mensah runs Halyard Freight, one of the companies I back. They check carrier invoices against contracted rates for shippers your size, and next month they start on returns. They want one shipper to shape it with them. she took my last intro in four days ✓
No obligation either way. If it is not for you, say so and I will not come back to you on this one. third from me this quarter. last one till Jan.
Priya
Illustration. Names and details are invented, and nothing is sent.
The introductions you never make
Half an hour, for one founder
That is what a proper search through LinkedIn takes. So most asks get an answer from memory.
Two names come to mind
You know a dozen who would fit.
Your best people hear from you least
You save them for the right ask, and it rarely comes.
The founder never sees what you missed
They see which investors open doors, and they tell each other.
Argued both ways
Kofi asked Priya for a shipper to pilot with. ScoutBridge read her network and named Dana Okafor.
Why she fits
Returns are her biggest unplanned cost. She told Priya in March.
Your note, 14 Mar
The case against
Larkspur pays a freight auditor that Halyard competes with.
Your note, 30 Jan
Close. Your call.
Priya ticked why she fits, and the balance tipped toward it.
She sent it, from her own mailbox.
Illustration. Names and details are invented, and nothing is sent.
$340 a seat a month for the first ten firms. $720 after that. Pricing