VENTURE CAPITAL INTELLIGENCE
A strong company is not automatically a strong investment.
The real investment question is whether growth is durable, the market is large enough, the economics can scale and the company can reach its next milestone without destroying capital efficiency. Sheyconomics brings those questions into one evidence-based view for venture investors, emerging managers and growth companies.
Support can start with a single opportunity, a portfolio question or an entire investment process, from sourcing and screening through diligence, IC preparation, portfolio monitoring and fundraising readiness.
2,000+
Startups guided or evaluated
$50M+
Portfolio exposure advised
20+
Transactions
Global
Europe, US and Latin America
When this work is useful
Venture decisions become difficult when the story and the underlying evidence do not line up. A company may be growing quickly but burning too much cash. A large market may be attractive but crowded. A promising portfolio company may need another round before the milestones that justify a higher valuation are visible.
Sheyconomics is particularly useful when an investor needs an independent view before committing capital, when a fund needs a more consistent screening or portfolio process, or when a growth company needs to understand how an institutional investor will read its numbers.
For investors & funds
- Screen a new opportunity before deeper diligence
- Challenge market, traction and valuation assumptions
- Build an IC-ready investment case
- Identify portfolio risks and follow-up priorities
- Strengthen manager and fund operating processes
For growth companies
- Test whether the fundraising story matches the data
- Clarify unit economics, runway and financing needs
- Prepare for investor diligence and questions
- Model valuation and dilution scenarios
- Prioritize what should be fixed before going to market
What gets analyzed
The analysis is adapted to stage and business model. The objective is not to produce more metrics, but to identify which metrics actually change the investment conclusion.
Market
Market size and growth, timing, competitive intensity, regulation and structural tailwinds.
Traction
ARR or revenue growth, retention, cohorts, customer concentration and evidence of repeatable demand.
Economics
Gross margin, CAC/LTV, payback, burn multiple, runway and the path toward stronger operating leverage.
Capital
Valuation, dilution, financing requirements, milestone planning and base/upside/downside scenarios.
Example: turning a pitch into an investment case
Context. A company is preparing for a new financing round. Growth looks attractive, but the deck focuses on top-line momentum and does not make retention, capital efficiency or the use of the next round easy to assess.
Analysis. The work reviews revenue quality, cohorts, gross margin, customer concentration, burn, runway, market evidence and financing scenarios. The model is then connected to the milestones investors would expect the next round to fund.
Decision value. Management sees which parts of the story are already credible, where evidence is missing and what needs to improve before investor outreach. The same analysis can help an investor distinguish between attractive growth and growth that is too dependent on continued capital.
A repeatable investment scorecard
A scorecard creates consistency without pretending that every company can be reduced to a formula. It makes assumptions visible and gives an investment team a common language for discussing conviction and risk.
01 Market
Size, growth, timing and competition
02 Product
Use case, differentiation and adoption
03 Traction
Growth, retention and concentration
04 Economics
Margins, efficiency, burn and runway
05 Team
Founder-market fit, execution and governance
SIGNALS TO WATCH TOWARD 2030
What could change which growth models get funded
AI adoption may lower the cost of building and operating some companies, but it can also compress differentiation. These are the signals that tend to move first when the funding environment is shifting.
- Capital efficiency premium. How consistently investors reward burn multiples below 1.5x compared with two years ago.
- Exit window width. How many months a company can realistically wait for an IPO or acquisition before needing another round.
- AI-driven margin compression. Categories where a leaner AI-native competitor can undercut an incumbent’s unit economics within a single funding cycle.
- Regulatory clock by sector. Data, fintech and healthcare-adjacent categories move on a different regulatory timeline than infrastructure or developer tools.
These are signals to monitor, not predictions. The right response changes as the evidence changes.
What a mandate can deliver
Deliverables are designed for the next decision, not for shelf space. Depending on the mandate, the work can include:
Investment memo
Thesis, evidence, risks, scenarios and recommendation.
Market map
Competitors, positioning and market structure.
Portfolio dashboard
KPIs, trends, risks and follow-up priorities.
Scenario model
Valuation, dilution, runway and financing outcomes.
Have an opportunity, portfolio question or fundraising decision?
Share the company or fund context, the decision that needs to be made and the timing. Sheyconomics can then determine the most useful scope, from a focused review to a broader investment or portfolio mandate.
