Anna Harrington
Managing Partner
Moraga, California
At pre-seed, a slow no costs the founder more than the money would have been worth.
Two weeks, start to finish, and a real answer either way. Founders raising their first round cannot afford a two-month process run by people who were never going to invest.
We take no board seat and no control terms at this stage. There is nothing to govern yet, and the paperwork costs a young company weeks it does not have.
There is nothing to govern at pre-seed. We do not pretend otherwise.
Before we start
01
Software sold to businesses
A buyer with a budget line. Consumer is a different craft and not ours.
02
Something running
A prototype, a pilot, a script that works. Not a deck about one.
03
Two weeks of your time
Three conversations and a decision. We will not string you along.
Eleven days, median
Our published process, and the point in it where you can stop us. Nobody has ever waited on a Moraga answer for more than a fortnight.
Day 1
One partner
Forty minutes. What you are building and who has to buy it.
Day 4
Two partners
The product, running. We would rather use it than hear about it.
Day 8
Your customer
One reference call, arranged by you, with someone who pays.
Day 11
Everyone
Yes with terms attached, or no with the reason attached.
People
Twenty-five people, and the person you meet is the person who does the work.
- Headcount
- 25
- Offices
- 2
Ashley Ellsworth
Managing Partner
Christine Vance
General Partner
David Harrington
General Partner
Dennis Yardley
General Partner
Douglas Sherwood
Partner
Edward Thistlewood
Partner
Gary Jamison
Partner
Mary Kingsley
Principal
Melissa Vance
Principal
Rebecca Radcliffe
Principal
Sharon Middleton
Investor
Susan Dashwood
Investor
Miriam Sheffield
Investor
Walter Comstock
Investor
Beatrice Norcross
Head of Platform
Roger Whitcomb
Head of Talent
Eleanor Halloway
Head of Research
Malcolm Sedgwick
Chief Financial Officer
Adele Chadwick
General Counsel
Theodore Merriweather
Director of Data
Sylvia Wadsworth
Director of Communications
Desmond Garrick
Investor Relations
Roland Carrington
Head of Operations
Vivian Larkin
Portfolio Controller
Open role
We are hiring an investor, in Moraga.
Three years shipping or selling enterprise software, and the discipline to say no quickly and kindly.