Founders
For founders.
If you are building something AI-native from Australia or New Zealand, and you would rather have a co-builder than a board seat, we would like to meet you.
What we look for in founders
- Clarity of thinking
- You can explain the problem, the customer, and the wedge in plain words. When you do not know something, you say so.
- Domain obsession
- You have spent real time inside the problem. You care about the customer in a way that is hard to fake and hard to compete with.
- Velocity
- You ship. You make reversible decisions fast and irreversible decisions carefully. You do not wait for permission.
- Intellectual honesty
- You change your mind when the evidence changes. You are more interested in being right in six months than sounding right today.
- Instincts for market
- You know who is going to buy this, why, and what would stop them. You can tell a good customer from a tire-kicker after one conversation.
What to expect from us
- A fast, honest first response
- We aim to reply to every inbound submission within five business days, usually sooner. If we pass, you will know why, briefly and respectfully.
- Fair terms
- Standard instruments, stage-appropriate valuations, and clean paperwork. No quirky clauses that surface two rounds later.
- Hands-on partnership when welcome
- We get involved on engineering, hiring, positioning, and fundraising when that is useful. We step back when it is not. Your company, your pace.
- Silence when you ask for it
- No mandatory weekly standups, no forced reporting cadence. When you are head-down, we leave you alone.
- Follow-through
- What we said in the meeting is what we do after the wire. Introductions land, engineering arrives, and we show up in the rounds that matter.
What we do not do
- Cold calls, pressure tactics, or fee-to-apply schemes.
- Finder fees or paid introductions.
- Ghost founders. If we have taken a meeting, you will hear back.
- Hardware, biotech, or regulated retail financial products.
- Bridging rounds for companies we did not originally back, unless we are actively helping.
Submitting your company
Tell us what you are building.
We review every submission. The form asks for the basics — who you are, what you are building, who it is for, how you are funded, and what you would want from us beyond the cheque. A deck helps but is not required; a link to a working prototype helps more.
We do not sign NDAs to read a deck. Everything you share is held in confidence and only discussed inside the PVP team.