A score you can defend, not a black box
Every deal gets two: an Aventro score for how strong the company is, and Fund Fit for how well it fits your fund. Each one shows the reasoning and the evidence behind it.
Tessel AI
Fund Fit
- StageSeed
- SectorEnterprise software
- Cheque size$750K in a $3M round
- GeographyEurope, US go-to-market
- Business modelB2B subscription
First read
- Workflow automation for mid-market finance teams, sold per seat.
- $1.1M ARR, up 3.4x on last year, 41 paying customers (deck).
- Raising a $3M seed; $750K of it is open.
Suggested next: move to Diligence
Fund Fit: your mandate, not ours
Fund Fit reads a deal against your own Fund DNA: the stages, sectors, cheque size, geography and business models you back, and the ones you never do.
- Your criteria, one by one
- Each criterion is shown met or missed, so a strong company outside your mandate says why it is outside, not just that it scored low.
- Versioned
- Your Fund DNA is versioned, and every Fund Fit score names the version it was judged on. Change it and you can see which deals it moves.
- Exclusions are gates, not points
- A deal that matches one of your exclusions is flagged with the rule it breaches. One the facts cannot clear is flagged for a person, never waved through.
How the Aventro score is built
A weighted roll-up of scored modules, each with criteria you can read.
- 14 modules, 10 of them weighted
- Each module scores against a rubric of sub-factors tied to the evidence behind them. The other 4 run for context and carry no weight, so they inform the report without moving the number.
- Missing data is not a zero
- A section a company has not filled in is left out of its module, not scored as nothing. What it lowers is the confidence in the score, which is where it belongs.
- Verified evidence moves the number
- A claim with no supporting document earns nothing. Verifying it against an outside source is what raises the score.
- Evidence-linked sub-factors
- Each module scores against a rubric, and every sub-factor ties back to a document. No evidence, no credit.
- Decision support, never advice
- The scores feed your decision and the report explains them factor by factor. Aventro never recommends an investment.
- Weights set by your thesis
- Module and sub-factor weights are set per organisation and applied across every deal your team runs. A fund whose edge is technical depth should not be scored on a generic weighting.