How Consilience Ventures helps
startups scale with confidence
Consilience Ventures gives early-stage startups what they really need to scale — and it’s not cash. Let’s find out more.
Recently-published research from Forward Partners highlights a value-add gap between VCs and investors. VCs accept that today, they have to offer founders more than just cash when they invest in a startup. However, there is a disconnect between the value they feel they offer and the value founders feel they receive:
- 92% of VCs interviewed by Forward Partners describe themselves as value-add investors
- 61% of founders rated their value-add experience as ‘below average’
It doesn’t have to be this way. What if there was an alternative model out there — an ecosystem that allows you to scale faster, more efficiently and at a lower cost? One where you don’t have to surrender control of your business in exchange for cash?
In this article, I’ll explain how the Consilience Ventures model gives startups the resources they need to scale without burning through cash. Let’s go.
Cash isn’t king
When you join the Consilience Ventures ecosystem, you convert equity into portfolio security tokens called CVDS. You then use your CVDS tokens to access the resource you need the most as you scale — expert help. Tokens are tradeable — and convertible into cash.
Consilience runs a community of expert practitioners in every aspect of scaling startups — law, marketing, accounting, sales, you name it. Experts have to be invited to join the community, so you can be sure they are the best in class.
We’ll work with you to pinpoint where you need help — and link you with the right person to help you. As your startup grows, along with the other businesses we work with, the value of CVDS grows too. Everybody wins.
Here are three reasons why this model makes sense for startups:
1 — You scale more efficiently
When you’re a startup, hiring is a time and money sink. It’s also a significant risk. If you spend valuable cash hiring someone, then spend time onboarding them, and they turn out not to be as good as you thought they were, it can dramatically set back your business.
At Consilience Ventures, we take away that risk with a hands-on approach to matching you with the right experts. If we’re working with them, you know they’re good. Plus, we don’t have to spend time recruiting and hiring, because they’re already in our community.
We also give you the guidance you need during your business’s early stages through what we call sprint financing road-maps. At a time where you would otherwise be preparing for fundraising rounds, we bring you tailored help from experienced investors.
All of this means you scale faster and with more efficiency.
2 — A partner for success
When you work with Consilience Ventures, we’re as invested in your success as you are.
We’ll work with the founders and the management team to gain the deepest understanding of where you are and what you need. As we work together on sprint financing timelines and deliverables, we’ll help you define your priorities for the next growth period. Everything is tailored to your needs.
We’re also investing in developing a predictive model to automate startup growth as much as possible, anticipating obstacles and pain points. This is unique in the investment world — a service that manages risk by breaking the scaling process into smaller, controlled steps. We are not there yet ;)
3 — Welcome to the network
Consilience Ventures is a community of startups, investors and experts working together for collective success. If every startup we work with can be successful, we maximise the value of the portfolio and the CVDS token — and everyone wins. The more valuable the CVDS, the more liquid and in turn are creating a private secondary market.
As well as getting access to our expert practitioners, you also get to network and learn from the other startups in the community. It provides an unparalleled opportunity for expansion and collaboration. There are also successful VCs amongst our investment partners; they will want to hear from you.
Work with us
A solution like ours is needed now more than ever. In challenging economic times like we’re experiencing currently, VCs’ appetite for risk traditionally decreases. VCs understandably focus on safeguarding their current investments rather than making new ones. In 2020, VC investment in Europe fell 12% year-on-year.
Consilience Ventures offers an alternative model that gives you the resources you genuinely need, without surrendering power.
If you’re a startup looking to break free and discover a new world of flexibility and control, it’s time to talk to Consilience Ventures.
Visit our site today or complete our startups questionnaire. It could be the best step you ever take in your business.
