Beagle for Investors

Gain invaluable insights on every startup
all before the first call.

Every deck read, every founder’s basics covered, and a private briefing in your hands before you dial in. Spend your first calls on the companies that fit, and start each one at the real questions.

01 · Review

Never Walk Into a Pitch Cold

When a founder drops their pitch deck into the room, your Beagle reads it against what you told it matters, asks the founder the follow-up questions the deck leaves open, and adds what it learned to your team's private briefing, along with what to verify.

You open the deck already knowing where to look, and the founder has already answered the first round of questions.

New company · intro room

A founder just shared their deck

Lumen Labs Seed Deck.pdf

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14 slides · 3.2 MB

Added to your private briefing
Insight

$40k monthly revenue across 40 labs, above the fund’s seed threshold.

Asked

The deck leaves out retention, so Beagle asked the founder about it.

Verify

Market size on slide 11 rests on a single 2023 source.

Briefing ready before the call

02 · Qualify

Put Your Calls Behind the Companies That Fit

Your Beagle is a gracious host to every founder, and it never delivers a verdict. Behind the scenes, it weighs what it learns against the criteria you gave it and flags mismatches in stage, sector, or check size in your private briefing.

Who gets a meeting, and how a no is delivered, stays with your team.

New company · intro room

A warm welcome for every founder

Live
Great to meet you. What are you building, and where are you in the raise?

A wearable sensor. Hardware first, with a subscription on top. We're raising a $3M seed round. Does the fund lead?

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Investment criteria
It leads or co-leads at seed and Series A. Thanks, I'll make sure the team has what you've shared.
Private briefing (only your team sees this)

Hardware-first; outside the fund’s software focus.

Raising a $3M seed; round size is within range.

Your call. Nothing has been said to the founder.

03 · Prepare

Walk In Already Knowing What to Ask

Guided by what you told it matters, your Beagle learns what the company does, its traction, the round, and the team. Your team gets a private briefing with what to probe and what to verify. Founders see only the shared recap.

New company · intro room

Your Beagle is learning the business

Live
So the team can prepare, who are your customers today, and how is revenue growing?

Forty biotech labs, about $40k a month and growing. Three of us, all engineers from the same lab-software company. What happens after this?

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Fund process
An intro call, then a partner meeting. The team will want to get into retention and the round with you directly.
Private briefing

$40k a month across 40 labs; above seed threshold.

Three technical founders from the same prior company.

To verify: retention and customer concentration.

04 · Align

Make Every First Call Count

Beagle drafts the agenda from what the founder shared and asked. Both sides see the same recap, so the first call opens on substance and does the work a second call usually has to.

First meeting agenda

Generated from the founder's conversation

Topics detected

RetentionRound termsTeam

Agenda item 1

Review retention and customer concentration

Agenda item 2

Discuss round size, lead role, and use of funds

Agenda item 3

Agree on next steps and the diligence timeline

Agenda ready before the meeting

05 · Stand out

Be the Fund Founders Hear Back From First

The best founders choose their investors. While other funds say “let's find time next week,” your Beagle answers the moment a founder reaches out, covering stage, check size, process, and timing from the criteria you give it.

By the time you speak, they already know how you invest, and you already know their business.

New company · intro room

Answers from your own criteria and process

Welcome. What would you like to know about the fund before you meet the team?

We're B2B software for lab inventory, $40k in monthly revenue, raising a seed round. What stage do you invest at, and how does your process run?

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Criteria and process

Seed and Series A in B2B software, with checks from $500k to $2M. The process is an intro call, a partner meeting, then about two weeks of diligence.

Inside the fund’s stage and sector · briefing ready

Their pitch.
Your briefing.
A first call that counts.

Set up in minutes. Your Beagle is ready to fetch. 🐾