Cohort Venture Partnering
Cohort venture partnering is providing the financial advisory bench for a whole accelerator, corporate venture arm or ecosystem programme, rather than for one company at a time.
Capability · 4 services within this
How we help with Cohort Venture Partnering
Advisory that reaches one founder at a time reaches the ones who least need it.
Design the programme around what founders actually lack
Most cohorts get a mentor rota. The gap is usually structured finance and capital knowledge, delivered as work rather than as talks.
Deliver to the whole cohort at once
Clinics, templates and assessments built once and used by every company, so advisory reaches the founders who could never buy it individually.
Work one to one where it changes an outcome
Individual sessions reserved for the companies at a decision point, rather than spread evenly for fairness.
Report what the cohort achieved
Readiness measured at entry and exit, so the programme can show its effect to its own funders.
Services within Cohort Venture Partnering
- Government Scheme MatchmakingThere is no shortage of schemes. There is a shortage of clarity about which one fits.Learn more
- Investor MatchmakingA warm introduction to the wrong fund is worse than no introduction at all.Learn more
- Masterclasses and ClinicsNobody teaches a founder how a term sheet works until they are holding one.Learn more
- Founder ToolkitsEvery founder rebuilds the same spreadsheet, badly, at two in the morning.Learn more
FAQ
Questions founders ask about Cohort Venture Partnering
Who is cohort partnering for?
Accelerators, incubators, corporate venture arms and ecosystem programmes that need a financial advisory bench for their portfolio and do not want to build one.
How is it different from a mentor network?
A mentor gives an opinion for an hour. This delivers defined work to defined standards across the cohort, with the same team accountable for the outcome, and with assessments that show whether it moved.
Can it be tailored to our programme?
Yes, and it usually has to be. A pre-seed cohort needs fundability and scheme access; a growth cohort needs reporting, pricing and investor readiness. The components are the same, the sequence is not.
What does a programme typically include?
A readiness assessment at entry, clinics on finance and capital, access to the grants and schemes register, toolkits the founders keep, and one-to-one work for the companies approaching a raise.
The people behind Cohort Venture Partnering
Cohort Venture Partnering is run by the studio team: one multidisciplinary team whose pods work in tandem, matched to the sector and the stage the company is in.
Investment Banking pod
Led by Haripriya V
Lead - Investment Banking & Business Growth. Manages transactions and strategic capital events.
See the pod structure
What usually runs alongside this
Fundability AssessmentAn honest read on how fundable a company is right now, and the specific things standing between it and a term sheet.- Government Scheme MatchmakingWhich Indian government schemes a company is actually eligible for, and what applying really requires.
- Masterclasses and ClinicsWorking sessions and clinics for cohorts: the practical finance and capital knowledge founders are expected to already have.
