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As a team of founders ourselves, we've noticed that lately most top incubators, accelerators, VCs started valuing teams over ideas. And we're not the only onces to notice this. So the amount of lies during interviews and application has raised significantly along with the amount of failed due dilligences. But the truth is that with big flow of candidates it's kind of impossible to fully fact check somebody unless you have no CIA friends around you. As the game is evlolving, nowadays if you're not ex-FAANG or IVY league graudate with a team of 3-5 same leveled individuals, your chances of getting big checks are really small. Hundreds if not thousands of extremely talented founders are getting rejections from YC annually. Also, many VCs are afraid to lead cold email rounds. Even if they say they do so, they actually never do. But not everybody has the determination to bootstrap for years. And you also have to live off something. So, we see an opportunity here.

The idea behind FirstCheckVC is to give first checks and first chances to prospects who have great ideas but are getting rejected without even getting in-depth discussions of their ideas just because of "lack of credability" or some other reasons (e.g. too young, women, born in a thirld-world country). We believe that some characte traits are way more important than things said before. We encourage folks to write us emails. We answer. We really do. And, specifically, there is a huge chunk is CIS founders who are not getting checks for various discriminative reasons. Though many of them are much more talented and hard-working than Stanford graduates. I've worked with both of these from both categories and I know what I'm saying about. If you think you're in this position, you're welcome to apply. For now, we are still raising capital from LPs ourselves so we typically dont give big $100k+ checks and act more as a syndicate. But at least you can put us as a VC brand on your deck.

As a team of founders ourselves, we've noticed that lately most top incubators, accelerators, VCs started valuing teams over ideas. And we're not the only onces to notice this. So the amount of lies during interviews and application has raised significantly along with the amount of failed due dilligences. But the truth is that with big flow of candidates it's kind of impossible to fully fact check somebody unless you have no CIA friends around you. As the game is evlolving, nowadays if you're not ex-FAANG or IVY league graudate with a team of 3-5 same leveled individuals, your chances of getting big checks are really small. Hundreds if not thousands of extremely talented founders are getting rejections from YC annually. Also, many VCs are afraid to lead cold email rounds. Even if they say they do so, they actually never do. But not everybody has the determination to bootstrap for years. And you also have to live off something. So, we see an opportunity here. The idea behind FirstCheckVC is to give first checks and first chances to prospects who have great ideas but are getting rejected without even getting in-depth discussions of their ideas just because of "lack of credability" or some other reasons (e.g. too young, women, born in a thirld-world country). We believe that some characte traits are way more important than things said before. We encourage folks to write us emails. We answer. We really do. And, specifically, there is a huge chunk is CIS founders who are not getting checks for various discriminative reasons. Though many of them are much more talented and hard-working than Stanford graduates. I've worked with both of these from both categories and I know what I'm saying about. If you think you're in this position, you're welcome to apply. For now, we are still raising capital from LPs ourselves so we typically dont give big $100k+ checks and act more as a syndicate. But at least you can put us as a VC brand on your deck.

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