We don’t split angel, seed and pre-seed into separate categories — we provide support across the board. The earlier we can invest, the more helpful we can be. Even if you think you are early, we’d still like to get to know you and are super keen to brainstorm as you discover your big mission.

Founders have always inspired us with their pioneering work, and we look to our founders to convince us of what’s next. That’s why we don’t focus on any particular sectors. We do tend to like teams which are leveraging technology and sharp customer insights to build product first companies.

From cold calls to design reviews, managing customer support to building teams, we know that building a company takes a lot. As operators and founders ourselves we look out for talent that can navigate both strategy crafting and ‘sleeves rolled up’ execution at the same time. We seek to find this in every conversation that we have.

Yes! While we have a large concentrations of our partnered founder sets in India, we believe successful startup founders can be based out of any region across the globe  

From your first interaction with us to a close, you should expect:
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1. Initial vetting: 30-45 minute introductory meetings with either one of our DeVC collective members or the DeVC team.
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2. Rapid follow ups: Post our introductory meetings If we are able to build some early conviction and are keen to partner with you, we’d follow through with upto 5 meetings with a few of the DeVC collective members. This enables us to learn more about your thought process, while we are always moving towards a decision. We’ll typically make some reference/diligence calls through this period
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3. Final decision: We discuss all opportunities as a group once every 10-14 days and partnership opportunities which are through the follow up process can expect a final answer from us within 1-2 days from our most recent huddle.  

These are some general steps every founding team goes through. While we strive to move at pace to get from intro to final answer in less than 14 days, sometimes developing a relationship might take longer.  

While our deVC founder collective members have different and diverse interest areas and specializations, they like to evaluate and back opportunities together. We constantly discuss each opportunity and what we find interesting. You do not need to choose one or many from the collective. We’re extremely collegial in how we work together to back startups  

You can directly reach out to the DeVC team, and we’ll review the partnership opportunity. We do prefer having some reading material (deck/g-doc/notion/any format) about your thesis and ideas to be shared with us upfront. We value referrals from operators and other angels that we know, and a direct referral will likely get a quicker response. Many of our past partnerships were referrals from seed stage VCs.

It varies from company to company. We’ve participated in rounds as small as $200K  and as large as $XX million. Regardless of check size, we are focused on partnering in the earliest stages (idea/pre-product/early traction) and decide our participating basis total round size being a good setup for success for the company

We tend to steer away from leading rounds and usually like being less than 30% of the total raise.  We have a long standing track record of partnering with seed-stage VCs, angels and family offices to help you round off your raise.

DeVC collective is made up of  individuals who are both builders and investors but above all super excited about shaping a vibrant early stage ecosystem. We are supported by and collaborate with multiple early stage investing institutions including Matrix Partners India, Peer Capital, White Ventures, Speciale and more. Our backing is independent of such institutions and is in no way determined by or conflicted with any of them.

The DeVC collective brings together unique domain knowledge, specialized expertise, and access to a valuable network that accelerates the progress of early-stage companies towards achieving Product-Market Fit (PMF) and shaping their Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy. We like to be co-builders in your journey and helping you find the path to scale.