VC DNA

Your investment thesis as code.

Encode the firm’s criteria once, then automate every evaluation against it — every company in your sector judged by your thesis, the same way, every time.

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DNA
Segments

SportsTech

Tech for athletes, teams, and the fans who follow them.

We want5
  • Performance and recovery analytics
  • Live broadcast and replay enhancement
  • Fan engagement and community platforms
  • Computer vision for action sports
  • Connected training and coaching tools
We pass4
  • No gambling or prediction markets
  • No hardware without a data layer
  • No fan-merch or apparel commerce
  • No single-club, region-locked apps
a real-time match-analytics startuprouted to SportsTechscored on these criteria
20 segments · one DNA·every line expands into detailed sub-criteria in the app

Each company is routed into a segment, then judged on that segment’s own wishlist and red lines — editable and versioned. Strategic constraints are first-class too: the dimension corporate VCs lean on hardest.

The problem

The firm’s most valuable asset lives in the worst place.

Your thesis is the sharpest thing the firm owns. Today it’s stored where it’s least usable.

Your thesis lives in partners’ heads.

When a partner leaves, much of the firm’s effective judgement walks out the door with them — unwritten, unrecoverable.

Decisions get written after the fact.

IC memos are post-hoc rationalisation. The logic that actually drove the call is never captured.

New associates take a year to absorb it.

Tacit rules — “we don’t touch hardware-heavy plays” — are learned only by being told no, again and again.

Why today’s tools fall short

Docs and CRMs don’t hold your thesis. They just store notes.

DOCSNotion / Google Docs thesis

Static. Written once during onboarding, then read by nobody. It never touches a live deal.

CRMAffinity / DealCloud notes

Free-text notes on a record. Not structured, not enforceable, never applied to the next company on its own.

SEARCHGlean / retrieval

Finds the note you wrote. It can’t apply your thesis to a company it’s never seen.

A thesis you can’t run isn’t a thesis — it’s a document. FlowHive makes yours executable.

The feedback loop

Every override makes the next evaluation smarter.

1
A first-pass verdict
Every company is evaluated against your DNA, with a written reason for each criterion.
2
You override
A partner advances or kills against the model’s call. Your judgement is always final.
3
You say why
The reason behind the override is captured right alongside the decision.
4
The DNA sharpens
That context shapes the next batch. The system drifts toward your firm, not away from it.
Most AI tools drift away from you as your needs change. FlowHive does the opposite — it gets more aligned to your firm every batch.
Per-criterion verdicts

Every decision has receipts.

Mycelia Foods
Alt-protein ingredient platform · fictional example
Did not advance
Industry fitAlt-protein ingredients — matches your desired industries.
Business modelB2B ingredient supply — the model you back.
GeographyEU-headquartered — inside your mandate.
FocusPlatform play with a defensible moat — fits the focus you wrote down.
StageSeries C. You back Seed–Series B; later stages are a red line.

IC questions get answers, not memos. LP questions get an audit trail, not anecdotes.

Where it pays off

A thesis that compounds instead of evaporating.

Onboard associates in days

The DNA is the firm’s training manual — every desired and every red line, written down and current.

Defend every decision

Each kill and each advance carries a per-criterion rationale, ready for the questions IC and LPs will ask.

Survive partner turnover

The thesis stays with the firm, not the individual. Judgement compounds instead of walking out the door.

Stop losing your thesis.

We’ll workshop your DNA in two weeks and run your first Stage 1 evaluation in four. The thesis you’ve been meaning to write for five years finally gets written.