Use case · Venture capital
Your weekly deal memo. Two-hundred-company market maps. First-draft due diligence. Done before Monday.
OpenHelm delivers the sourcing analyst function as a managed service, market mapping, founder research, deal flow triage, and competitive landscape analysis, calibrated to your investment thesis.
now
A fraction
Of an £80–130k loaded hire
5 days
Brief to first market map
Multi-thread
Parallel categories tracked
Already in production with
What we do
What runs against your thesis.
Inbound deal triage
Every cold deck and intro reviewed against your criteria within 24 hours.
Market mapping
50 to 200-company structured maps, tagged by stage, geography, funding, and headcount.
Founder research
Background packs on the team, references in your network, and prior outcomes.
Competitive landscape
Comparison tables built from G2, press coverage, hiring activity, and funding signals.
Weekly deal memo
Friday summary of inbound, qualified, passed, and category intelligence.
Decline drafts
Polite, on-brand decline notes prepared for your approval before sending.
What you receive
What it actually looks like.
124 companies, refreshed weekly.
EU compliance tooling, market map
Live
| Company | Stage | HQ | Last raise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanta | Series C | San Francisco | $150M, 2024 |
| Drata | Series C | San Diego | $100M, 2023 |
| Sprinto | Series B | Bangalore | $20M, 2024 |
| Cyberhaven | Series C | Palo Alto | $70M, 2024 |
Aggregated inbound + category intel, every Friday at 16:00.
Memo
Week of 21 April 2026
Inbound
14 decks reviewed, 3 flagged for partner meeting, 11 declined with notes ready for your approval.
Category intel
8 new EU compliance companies identified. 2 raised undisclosed rounds based on hiring patterns.
Suggested actions
Founder calls scheduled with Sprinto and Cyberhaven. Decline drafts queued for review.
A managed sourcing engine at half the cost of a pre-MBA associate.
For seed and early-stage funds where the GP is still heavily involved in sourcing, a managed service often makes more sense than a full-time hire. You get systematic coverage of your thesis without the management overhead of a junior employee.
What clients say
OpenHelm basically gave us an entire marketing department overnight. This is what it feels like to punch above your weight!
Dr Thom Van Every
Founder · Smoothie Wars
Pricing
Two ways to bring OpenHelm to the sourcing analyst workload.
Self-serve, where your team drives OpenHelm directly, or a managed service, where a dedicated operator runs the brief on your behalf and stays in close contact across calls, email, and Slack.
Self-serve
Every tier includes every feature and unlimited seats.
Basic
For small teams getting started with AI at work.
- Every feature, no gates
- Unlimited seats
- Voice + text interface
- Isolated credential vault
Pro
For teams putting OpenHelm to daily work across a few functions.
- Priority onboarding
- Team-shared memory & history
- Read/write across shared Drives
- Slack + MS Teams integration
Max
For teams running OpenHelm continuously across the business.
- Priority support
- Higher per-job concurrency
- Custom workflow templates
- Quarterly review with the team
Managed Service
A dedicated operator on your account, calibrated to the sourcing analyst brief.
For teams that want a real human in the loop. Hop on calls, share data over email or Slack, and have outputs reviewed before they reach you. Pricing is bespoke to your scope and quoted on enquiry.
- A dedicated human operator on your account, available by call, email, or Slack
- Calibrated to your brief, format, and tone
- Outputs reviewed by a human before delivery
- First month free without commitment, then a custom quote
Custom quote
Quoted to your brief
12-month contract, first month free without commitment.
Twenty minutes on a call, real scoping, then a quote.
What the outputs look like.
Market map
120-company overview of the European B2B SaaS compliance tooling space, tagged by stage, funding status, geography, and founding year, with one-line product descriptions and LinkedIn headcount growth rates over 12 months.
Deal triage
14 inbound decks reviewed this week. 3 flagged for GP review with one-paragraph summaries and founding team backgrounds. 11 passed with draft decline notes queued for your approval.
Founder research pack
Founding team background for a Series A fintech, previous companies, exits, technical credentials, angel investor names, and two suggested references from shared networks.
Weekly deal memo
Category summary of horizontal AI infrastructure companies active in EMEA. 8 new companies identified this week. 2 have raised undisclosed rounds based on job posting activity. 1 is raising per a founder’s tweet.
Built to drop into a partnership without changing how the partnership works.
The operator model: every output is reviewed by a human with role-relevant experience before delivery. This isn’t a chatbot.
The audit trail: every action logged, every output timestamped. If compliance asks what generated a research note, there’s a clear answer.
Data security: credentials stored in isolated vaults with scoped permissions. Nothing leaks sideways between clients.
The trial structure: first month at no charge on a defined brief, so you can benchmark quality against your own standards before committing.
More use cases
Other roles where the same model works.
Your next market map. Done by Friday.
Brief us on a category you’re actively tracking. We’ll produce a first market map within five business days at no cost. If the format and depth match what you’d expect from a strong analyst, we can talk about an ongoing arrangement.