Welcome to the Flightpath podcast. Each episode of Flightpath acts as a dedicated Briefing with a leading industry voice currently navigating their unique path into a new Deal Diligence™, that affects the way early stage deal flow and funnels might now generate and evaluate new and untapped market value. In this Briefing episode we talk to Naish Yadav about how in scaling his startup Ventur he is setting up and creating a data driven foundation for early stage founders to now access and be able to leverage. A foundation that enables them from the outset better frame, understand and therefore match with the portfolio thesis of potentially aligned investors. We talk about why this critical stage of the process is still so inefficiently managed and implemented - with so much of this founder investor outreach still being so unaligned and in reality too often cold and generic. We discuss how the rise of low code / no code prototyping and side hustle startups, whilst great in terms of increasing the speed, ability and agility and also lowering the cost of anyone to conceive of and launch a startup, might also be inadvertently creating a noise to signal problem for the ecosystem, as it tries to filter through the resulting increased volume and vastly differing quality of startup deal flow. We also explore where we are on the adoption scale amongst investors for data driven processes, perspectives and tools now fully integrating with their existing deal funnels - particularly around early stage pre-seed deal flow - and the untapped value this might unlock in the ecosystem. For more information visit:https://venturhq.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/naishyadav/