Get investor-ready before the investor looks.
KYE Ventures started as the vehicle that funded Nathan Biles's own companies, Be Giving and Know Your Ethos. Today it helps founders get through the technical side of a raise: the audit before the investor's audit, a named CTO in the room, and an honest read on whether the product is ready.
Investors are asking harder questions about the code than they did two years ago. Most founders find out what the questions are during the diligence, when it is too late to fix anything.
What the investor will ask
The technical diligence on a seed or Series A round comes down to a short list. You can answer it before they ask.
- Who actually wrote this, and what happens if they leave or the agency contract ends?
- What is the architecture, and will it carry the next ten times the load without a rewrite?
- Where are the security holes, and has anyone outside the team looked?
- How much of the roadmap is real, and what does it cost in engineer months?
- Is the AI in the product a moat or a wrapper, and what does it cost to run at scale?
- Who is the technical leader the investor can call after the wire?
How KYE Ventures helps
Three ways, priced on the service pages. Most founders start with the audit.
- The audit before their auditA Technical Due Diligence report on your own product, signed, in five business days, from $3,500. You see what the investor's reviewer will see, with a 30, 60 and 90 day plan to fix it, and you can hand the report to the investor yourself.Technical Due Diligence
- A named CTO for the raiseA KYE Ventures CTO, Nathan Biles or one from the bench, through the round: in the investor meetings, on the diligence calls, owning the roadmap and the architecture answers. From $5,500 a month. When the product has to get built as well as defended, the Team retainer adds two senior engineers under the CTO's direction.Fractional CTO
- Introductions when they fitWhen a company is ready and it fits, KYE Ventures makes the investor introduction. There is no fee for an introduction and no promise of one.About Nathan
Who should apply
- Non-technical founders whose product is built by an agency, a contractor or an offshore team they cannot evaluate.
- Technical founders raising a first institutional round who want an outside read before the investor's.
- Founders who have been told to come back when the product is further along, and want to know exactly what that means.
- Companies in regulated markets, healthcare, finance or the enterprise, where the diligence includes security and compliance.
Apply
Tell Nathan about the raise. He reads every application himself and replies by email. Nothing you write here is shared with anyone else.