What We Look For

We seek to fund entrepreneurs who have exciting visions for transforming markets through the development and application of convergent technologies. Some of the things we look for include:

A Team that can Achieve Success

You must have strong technologists on your team. Successful management experience certainly helps, but we can help you assemble a full management team if necessary. Most importantly, you must have a strong orientation towards teamwork, have a strong passion for translating your vision into reality, and be flexible and adaptable as almost all business strategies and plans must change.

Potential for Significant Financial Return

You should be targeting a market that is, or will soon be, a large and growing market. Your intellectual property should be strong and able to be protected. We must believe that your value proposition will lead to significant market share and that you will have sufficient and sustainable competitive advantages. Needless to say, you must have a viable business model. In addition, reasonable capital requirements, multiple exit alternatives and a fair valuation are important.

Acceptable Level of Risk

We look for companies that have already demonstrated proof of concept and are seeking to commercialize their ideas, have early products under evaluation by potential customers, or are beginning their revenue ramp. In addition to technology, we look for an acceptable level of market, competitive, infrastructure, organizational and timing/financing risk.

The Alameda team uses a set of 85 questions we evaluate during our due diligence process. While we don’t expect every question to be relevant to every investment opportunity, and we don’t expect entrepreneurs to have answers to every question, it may be useful to prospective portfolio companies to review this list as part of their business strategy development.

The Alameda
85 Questions