Deal Flow Management for Early-Stage Investors: Capture, Triage, Score, Prioritize

Early-stage investors drown in deal flow because they have no system, not because they see too many companies. This post lays out a four-stage capture, triage, score, and prioritize pipeline that works with a spreadsheet, plus the one weekly rhythm that keeps the whole thing from rotting.

Key stats

4: Pipeline stages: capture, triage, score, prioritize (each with a single clear exit criterion)

1: Weekly review cadence (the minimum rhythm that keeps a pipeline from going stale)

350+: Startups in the public GitHub panel (a sourcing input, not a pipeline replacement)

References

[1] VC Deal Flow Signal Methodology: GitDealFlow

[2] VC Deal Flow Signal API: GitDealFlow

[3] Y Combinator Startup Library: Y Combinator