The challenge
A two-person team running a $40M seed fund out of New York had a clear problem: their LPs benchmark them against funds with 30-person investment teams. The expectations on data quality, response time, and LP reporting are the same. The resources are not.
Their existing stack was a Notion workspace, a custom Airtable for pipeline, paid Crunchbase for sourcing, and a $30K research subscription that mostly sat unused. Diligence took weeks, response times to founders ran 5+ days, and LP reports consumed two full weeks every quarter.
What changed
The fund moved their entire intelligence layer to Brevoir Syndicate over a four-week migration. The biggest unlocks were:
- Continuous sector intelligence replaced the manual scanning of TechCrunch and Twitter
- AI Due Diligence replaced two weeks of associate work per deal
- LP Reporting Automation replaced their two-week quarterly reporting cycle
- Discover Marketplace added a parallel deal flow channel that did not exist before
The outcomes
Within 90 days:
- Deal flow tripled, primarily from Discover marketplace and sector intelligence surfacing companies they would have missed
- Average response time to founders dropped from 5 days to under 24 hours
- Diligence time per deal compressed from two weeks to two days
- The first quarterly LP report generated through Brevoir took 60 minutes from start to finish
The fund cancelled their previous research subscription, which more than paid for the Brevoir Syndicate plan in the first year.
On the inside
"I run a $40M fund out of NYC with two analysts. Brevoir is what makes us look like a $400M fund to our LPs."
The team is now actively considering whether to skip a future associate hire. The math, they say, is no longer obvious.