Most founders never find out why they were passed on.
We built 710 Angels because that silence is expensive on both sides of the table. Founders burn months guessing. Investors burn hours on calls that were never in range. Both problems come from the same missing thing: a careful, written, evidence-backed read of the raise before anyone gets on a plane.
Four things we do not trade away.
Founder-first
A small number of high-conviction bets each year, so founders get real attention and not just capital.
Integrity
A vetted network of operators and angels who show up when it matters, on and off the cap table.
Focus
Tech-enabled businesses with defensible differentiation and a credible path to profitability.
Global roots
Vancouver-founded, active across Toronto, New York, San Francisco, and beyond.
A different yardstick for each kind of company.
A climate hardware pre-seed and a seed-stage SaaS company do not fail for the same reasons, so they are not read against the same checklist. Each sector and stage has its own rubric, and the rubrics are rewritten as the market changes.
- Every conclusion cites the material
A judgement that cannot point at a line in the founder's own documents is flagged and kept out of the score.
- Missing information is named, not guessed
Where the material is silent, the report says so and lists the document that would close the gap.
- Built for the AI era
Whether a large model absorbs the product, how fast it could be copied, what the company is accumulating, and whether the raise is spent sensibly.
- The founder gets right of reply
Written responses sit alongside the report, so a good answer travels with the project.
A score is a starting point for judgement. It is not investment advice, and it is not a decision.
Members still read the material, meet the team, and do their own diligence. Nothing here replaces that.
We are not a filter. We are a repair shop.
It would be easier to build a machine that sorts companies into yes and no. We think that is the least useful thing an early-stage platform can do. A pre-seed company is, almost by definition, incomplete. What matters is whether the missing pieces are the kind that can be built.
So a weak score here comes with a list: the document that is absent, the number that is unsupported, the assumption the whole plan rests on. Fix them, upload again, and the read is done fresh. Founders who never get a cheque from this network should still leave with a stronger company than they arrived with.
That is also why the same rigour is applied to what we say about ourselves. We do not publish success rates we cannot verify, and we do not promise timelines we do not control.
Better companies get built when someone tells founders the truth early, in writing, with the reason attached.
Two ways in, depending on which side you're on.
Find out where you'll get stopped, before you fly out
Upload the deck, the financials and the technical files together. You get a scored memo with the reasoning, the gaps in your material, and the one thing most likely to sink the round.
- Free to upload. No approval queue.
- The report is yours first — you decide if members ever see it.
Only meet companies inside your range
Set your sectors and stages once. Everything you open already carries a structured read, evidence you can trace back to the founder's own material, and the questions still worth asking.
- Membership is reviewed by a person, not automatic.
- Your own deal room stays private to you.