10x Value Partners

Right Side Capital Management (“RSCM”) is one of the most active pre-VC stage investment firms in the US. We utilize a quantitative, data-driven investment process to build out ultra-diverse venture portfolios. We have invested in 1,600+ companies since 2012. We have five funds that invest at the pre-VC stage and two funds that invest at the seed stage and beyond. We are currently a team of seven people and anticipate growing to 10+ people over the next 12 months. We are based in San Francisco, but our team is currently spread across three states. This position can be in-office, remote, or a combination. We provide a workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to achieve their best daily. We make all our hires with the intention of bringing someone on board that will be a long-term member of our team, and whose responsibilities will grow as our firm grows. At RSCM, we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. These differences are what enable us to work toward the future we envision for ourselves, our portfolio companies, and the World.

We are constantly inspired by relentless founders tackling big problems globally. That's why we decided to professionalize our angel investing side hustle via 10K Ventures - investing our own capital, time, and network as fast and early as possible. Industry agnostic. Geographically opportunistic. Founder-centric. Invested alongside Tiger Global, a16z, Softbank, Alter Global, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, local VCs and angels, and more. Track Record so far: Invested in 20+ early-stage startups directly **** % IRR*= 67+% 1 Exit 🙌 *Vintage: Q1/2019. Estimates as of Q4/2022. Includes both realized and unrealized returns. Portfolio: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/10kv/recent_investments OUR (HYPO)THESIS*:#1: GOAL: 400X RETURN - We aim for $25k tickets to be $10MM outcomes. We have limited capital but ambitious targets, hence we are astute and disciplined in finding these deals. Each deal we make shall be backed by strong convictions that it could return >400x of our investment. #2: We value Quality and ROI as much as Entry VALUATION. We care about returns and probability of success as much as entry valuations. We acknowledge that serial entrepreneurs or repeat founders could demand a higher valuation in exchange for a “de-risked” premium on team and execution. But at the same time, sometimes the big winners are further driven by external forces. Either way, what we’re looking for is to find opportunities backed by a strong conviction of achieving massive total value creation potential… …which leads us to… #3: We like LARGE TAMs, with Low-PMF-High-Execution Risk type of verticals. We like LARGE TAMs as this indicates how big the revenue potential is going to be (=valuation in the long run). We don’t just mean large top-down hypothetical market sizes, we want to have strong convictions that there is a clear path to a certain scale and we do this through bottom-up calculations and clearly understand what needs to be true in order to reach that level of scale and impact. Our bare minimum is for us to see a clear path to at least $100M Annual Rev RR / ARR potential. Typically, these are category-defining or clear emerging category leaders in a particular geography. Usually identifying and finding solutions to what would be the largest problems in >10 years. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.― Buckminster Fuller In addition, we also prefer gunning for a high probability of scaling with a low probability of failure - We need to have strong convictions that this works, but simultaneously notoriously difficult enough that only a few could pull it off. #4: For Low-PMF-High-Execution Risk type of verticals, the biggest de-risking element of the equation: The FOUNDERS. We believe that especially since we are focused on investing in Low-PMF-High-Execution risk verticals, ultimately, we hypothesize that it’s all about getting 💯 conviction on the founders. Here are some hypotheses on what we think resonated with us: We prefer problem space-centric and thesis-driven entrepreneurs. They have built strong convictions on the problem space they’re in (as opposed to the solution), which could indicatively mean they don’t give up easily if certain approaches/solutions don’t work. We prefer serial entrepreneurs. All things equal, we have a preference for founders who has experience in building great products and has experienced both wins and losses over their entrepreneurial journey. We prefer the ones who knows how to sell the vision to investors, talent, and partners; and drive and implement their vision to reality (Note: this doesn’t mean we rule out first time founders. Ultimately, what we like to see is strong track record of exceptional capabilities and/or network.) We prefer those with a strong narrative on founder-market fit. Ultimately, we want to back founders who seemingly are born for it. They immediately have the necessary knowledge, network, and most importantly the empathy and commitment to make their vision happen. And how do we attract founders? #5: On Attracting Founders and winning deals - RELEVANCE and REPUTATION are key. It’s hard to pick winning founders, but it's much harder to be picked by winning founders. The top founders and hottest deals are not only difficult to find and catch, they're also 100 times harder to get in and close. As angel investors, we always aim to be part of the cap table to show our commitment and earn the "badge of trust" from the founders. However, achieving this is often even more difficult. To earn our reputation and the trust of the founders, we must hustle our way to provide value-add. This way, we can stand out from the rest and end up being picked. So far, below are the things we think we could add value: NETWORK. We are constantly building from the ground up a strong network of investors, talent, and BD/partnerships in that we can provide strategic INTROS to founders. SIGNALLING. We strive to have a good reputation and maintain a strong track record of picking winners (vs spray-and-pray approach). NOTHING ELSE 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️. We try our best to be of value-add, but if there’s no need, we don’t push for it. We’re not superhumans who would know all answers to founders’ questions; we’re just superfans for these founders we’d go the extra mile for them when they’re in need of support.

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Our mission: to serve our seed and early stage investor partners and the heroic teams they back. We partner with Early-Stage VCs to double down in their leading companies. Small, specialist VCs are the first funders of 80% of unicorns and tech IPOs, but 90% of the time, these first funders lack the capital to follow on in their growth stage winners. Alpha is purpose built to solve this capital gap for Early-Stage VCs. As a result, Alpha invests in top-tier growth equity rounds led by the world’s best investors. Rational and Agile Capital As experienced entrepreneurs and early stage venture capital investors, we founded Alpha Partners to be an agile co-investor. We make rapid investment decisions. We’re flexible on investment size. We believe in direct communication and transparency with our partners. While we may assist with fundraising, recruiting, and strategic relationships, we rarely take board seats. Experienced at Scale Alpha Partners was founded by experienced early stage venture capital investors and former entrepreneurs with more than 75 years of combined experience. Our team, including our close advisors, have founded and helped to scale multi-billion dollar venture and private equity firms as well as made hundreds of investments themselves. Friendly The venture ecosystem can be rough and tumble. We find that our best introductions come from high-quality referred deals from our friends, our fellow entrepreneurs, and venture firms we often partner with. As a result, we aspire to be as responsive, transparent, and easy to work with as we can be. Friendly. Not a Black Box Making an investment is about capitalizing on a business opportunity as well as forming a partnership. In evaluating an investment, we weigh leadership team quality, revenue velocity, category leadership, concept simplicity, strategic partner strength, market size and growth. That said, we’ve found that companies over $5 million in annual revenue that are growing tend to stay on that growth path.

For over two decades Top Tier and its predecessor firm have made 160+ global investments backing top investors and innovators. Venture investors for the long haul. At Top Tier, consistency and integrity drive everything we do. Our value-add lies in our experience, deep networks, industry insights, and superior client service. We work collaboratively with our limited partners to help them build their venture capital programs, partner closely with our managers to offer thoughtful, hands-on counsel, and help our entrepreneurs build the next great technology company. Our relationships are long-lasting, built on trust, and begin, do not end, with the investment. Primaries: Investing in funds managed by venture capital firms around the world across the innovation ecosystem. Secondaries: Flexible liquidity solutions for venture capital holdings across limited partnerships and shareholders of venture-backed companies. Directs: Investing in innovative and high growth venture-backed companies by partnering with our venture capital relationships, utilizing our data insights and leveraging our entrepreneur network..