I invest in scalable B2B software, with a focus on finance and travel. Pitch me and you have an answer within two weeks — including when it is no.
In the markets these companies work in, time does not reduce risk. It moves the opportunity to whoever was faster. Every week of review that turns up nothing new is a week the founder does not get back.
I have no investors to justify a decision to. No investment committee, no fund life, no quarter with capital that has to be deployed. That is not a matter of style. It is the only reason I can move quickly.
As CEO I built a group out of ten acquisitions: seven brands, 300 people, ten offices across five countries, brought onto one platform. I know the stage you are in from the inside.
First conversation within a week. Decision within two. A no comes with a reason, not as silence.
No fund means no exit pressure in year five. A company is sold when the timing is right for the company, not when a fund life ends.
Built from 2022. Pollen Street Capital on board since December 2023.
No form with twelve fields. An email with three sentences on the product, three numbers and the deck is enough.