Perspectives on seed investing, technology, and company building
Our team shares frameworks, market analysis, and observations from working alongside exceptional founders at the earliest stage of their companies.
KnownWeil Capital argues that founder-market fit — the alignment between a founder's background and the specific problem they are solving — is a stronger early predictor of success than product-market fit alone.
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KnownWeil Capital explains what seed-stage due diligence actually means in practice — the questions we ask, the evidence we seek, and the judgment calls that determine conviction.
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A detailed account of the analytical framework KnownWeil Capital uses to make seed investment decisions — from initial screening through conviction-building to term sheet.
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KnownWeil Capital analyses 2024 B2B SaaS market dynamics, examining real growth data from Ramp, Retool, Glean, and others to understand where the category is heading.
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KnownWeil Capital explains why deploying concentrated seed capital with deep founder partnership outperforms the spray-and-pray model favoured by larger funds.
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KnownWeil Capital examines the traits that distinguish truly exceptional seed-stage founders, drawing on documented case studies from Stripe, Notion, Figma, Rippling, and others.
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As the AI infrastructure stack commoditises rapidly, KnownWeil Capital analyses which layers are retaining sustainable margins and where the investable opportunities lie for seed-stage companies.
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After evaluating over 800 founding teams across six years, KnownWeil Capital's partners identify five non-obvious traits that separate the founders who build category-defining companies from those who don't.
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Most seed-stage companies misallocate their first major capital infusion. KnownWeil Capital shares a decision framework for prioritising headcount, product, and go-to-market investments across the 18 months following a seed close.
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Before a product ships and before revenue accumulates, what signals matter most? We share the proprietary framework KnownWeil uses to evaluate founders at the earliest stage, covering the dimensions of insight, edge, grit, and co-founder dynamics that we weight most heavily in pre-revenue investments.
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A convergence of talent, capital, and regulatory clarity is creating conditions for European deep tech to compete directly with Silicon Valley for the first time. This analysis examines the structural shifts in the European technology ecosystem and where we see the most compelling investment opportunities over the next three years.
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Eighteen months into the enterprise AI wave, clear patterns are emerging. We analyze what distinguishes companies seeing genuine ROI from those stuck in pilot purgatory, drawing on conversations with over 40 enterprise buyers and observations from our portfolio companies delivering AI-powered products.
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Receiving your first term sheet is exhilarating and disorienting in equal measure. This practical guide covers the ten terms that matter most in a seed round, how to think about valuation versus dilution, and the red flags in investor behavior that signal a difficult relationship ahead.
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The most successful developer tool companies in our portfolio did not win by hiring a large sales team. They won by becoming genuinely useful to developers before asking for money. This piece traces the common architecture of successful developer-led growth strategies and the mistakes we have seen founders make when attempting to replicate the model.
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