Overview

<aside> 📥 The Confluence.VC Access Fund leverages our growing community of vetted investors as scouts, syndicate participants, and valuable contributors to gain access to competitive venture and fund investments.

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The Confluence.VC Access Fund is designed for everyone to win.

• Founders get growth capital accompanied by exposure to a vast community of vetted investors and VC funds who can collectively add value today and individually invest down the line.
• Members who source deals get a convenient mechanism to capture economics in great opportunities they couldn't otherwise.
• The community gets access to high-quality deals at a low ticket buy-in that individuals build wealth and track records as investors and LPs.

<aside> 👥 Vetted investors: 1,850+

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<aside> 🏙️ Global cities: 150+

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<aside> 🏢 Funds represented: 1,350+

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<aside> ☎️ Slack Engagement: 30k+ messages

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Thesis

Confluence.VC Access Fund Flywheel

• Angel investing and individual track record is the new form of credibility within the investor community.
• Junior investor incentive structures are misaligned and lack the financial upside in their firms.
• Venture firm value propositions are limited, and the importance of community based-support has increased.
• The Confluence.VC community can defensibly source, fund, and support deals without disrupting existing workflows.

Incentive Alignment

Founders

1. Create exposure to an expanding group of 1,000+ investors from 800+ firms to increase odds of follow-on investment and create hype around your business
2. Take capital from one check; gain the network, domain expertise, and lessons learned from 1,000+ investors
3. Gain access to the Confluence.VC founder resource database and investor network
4. Receive benefits, education, discounts, and services from our partners and founder support platforms

Investors

1. Personally access competitive deal flow to build individual wealth and track record with low capital entry requirements
2. Help portfolio increase odds of success by connecting them to an aligned community of investors
3. Capture proportionate economics in deals sourced relative to receiving little or none from the fund that employs you

Return Drivers

• Our community has global coverage and access to the best deals.
• Incentive alignment between all stakeholders enables us to capture competitive cap table space.
• Collective investment and support from the Confluence.VC member community allows for a wider net of people to help drive value after the check.

Defensibility

• Community network effects
• Proprietary and UGC content to fuel brand, growth, and relevance
• Trust, group buy-in, and first-mover advantages
• Value accretive partnership for VC and startups

Investing Overview

Scope

We stay nimble given the depth of our network and ability to quickly gather expert knowledge. That said, we focus on sectors that have historically outperformed, are on the rise, or are within our expertise. We invest with the following scope, but only within our community’s top 2-3 portfolio companies unless several of our success and filtration factors are clearly demonstrated.

Agnostic Sector:

• B2B SaaS
• Dev tools
• E-commerce enablement
• Digital health
• Marketplaces
• Fintech & Insur-tech
• High-growth consumer
• Urbantech

Early Stages:

• Pre-seed
• Seed
• Series A

Concentrated Geography:

• 70% US
• 30% Global

Cumulative Check Sizes:

• Access Fund Check Size: $50k-$250k, with the option for LPs to capture outstanding allocation unfulfilled by the community
• Syndicate Size Target: $250k - $2M+