Blueprint

Empowers early-stage B2B SaaS founders to understand what it takes to raise capital in today’s market. We’ll analyze your metrics and provide an objective assessment of how you compare to peers — through the lens of a VC.

Benchmarks

Drill down into our private database of early stage B2B SaaS metrics to see what Go-To-Market, Operations and Capital numbers look like for high quality venture backed businesses.

Open Source

Track the GitHub activity of B2B Software and Fintech startups in Europe. Monitor stars, forks, and repository growth to understand open source growth trends.

Perspectives

• Rivia’s $15m Series A to improve patient outcomes - Our investment in Rivia's $15m Series A.

• Picks and Shovels in the AI Gold Rush - The cloud era created multiple $10bn+ middleware companies who sold 'picks and shovels' to other players in the ecosystem.

• Defensibility in the AI Era - In the age of large language models, defensibility now lives where proprietary workflow data, built-in growth loops, and rapid experimentation intersect.

• What are Modern Product & Data Companies - Modern Product & Data companies outcompeting legacy providers will lead to a wave of disruption in the business tech stack.

• Defiant 1.0 - Our Why - Re-imagining what a venture fund could look like, with a thematically-led, data-driven and product-centric approach to B2B software & fintech investing.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only their assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.
– Howard Zinn