Free tools you can use today. Practical guides to building your own with AI. An honest map of the ecosystem. All from a practitioner in the trenches.
Purpose-built for syndicate leads. Free to use, open to customise, ready to deploy.
Quickly assess whether an inbound deal fits your syndicate's thesis, stage, and ticket size. Answer a few questions, get a clear pass/fail with reasoning.
Run a structured deal analysis from first look through to a shareable investment memo. Six steps, from initial screen to final write-up.
Track portfolio performance, MOIC, and generate LP reports without a spreadsheet. Built with AI and running in production at Raspberry Ventures.
Log meetings, decisions, and deal notes in one place. The operational backbone of a running syndicate. Built with AI at Raspberry Ventures.
Use what's here. Learn how to build your own. Understand what's out there. Connect with peers doing the same.
Purpose-built tools for syndicate leads. Use them now, build your own with AI, or deploy the code yourself.
Practical guides on building your own tools with AI — prompts, recipes, and walkthroughs for non-technical leads.
An opinionated directory of every platform, CRM, and tool in the syndicate ecosystem — reviewed by someone who uses them.
Video conversations with practitioners, AI news through a syndicate lens, and downloadable templates.
You don't need to be a developer to build your own tools. Here's how one syndicate lead went from spreadsheets to shipping — with everything you need to do the same.
Prompts, skill files, and configurations you can take and use. Follow them step by step, or adapt them to your own workflow.
Every tool, platform, and resource syndicate leads actually use — mapped by someone in the trenches. Honest takes, no affiliate links.
Odin, AngelList, Sydecar, Allocations, Assure, Auptimate, Wefunder — where you form and run your vehicles.
Affinity, 4Degrees, Attio, Streak — pipeline management and relationship intelligence for deal-driven teams.
Harmonic, PitchBook, Crunchbase, CB Insights, Dealroom — sourcing signals, screening, and market data.
Carta, Visible.vc, Standard Metrics, Chronograph, Papermark — tracking, valuations, and LP-grade reports.
Assure, Carta, AngelList, Clerky — entity formation, Reg D filings, K-1s, and ongoing fund admin.
Angel Capital Association, AngelSchool.vc, Angel Squad, SuperScout, Hustle Fund — training and peer networks.
Short, unscripted conversations with syndicate leads about how they actually work — tools, workflows, AI, and what's changing.
Alex runs a syndicate through Raspberry Ventures — sourcing deals, aggregating capital, managing a portfolio. These tools exist because the off-the-shelf options didn't quite fit. AI made it possible to build something better, and everything here is shared openly.