Perspectives on seed-stage venture capital, technology, and the principles behind building enduring companies.
A detailed breakdown of how seed rounds are structured today — valuations, dilution, convertible instruments, board composition, and the ten things founders should negotiate before signing a term sheet.
Building a company around AI models is fundamentally different from traditional SaaS. We outline the product, organizational, and go-to-market adaptations that separate successful AI-native companies from those that fail to gain durable traction.
Curevstone Capital's investment thesis: why we back health technology at the seed stage, and why the next decade belongs to health AI and biotech.
Honest perspectives from our investment team on the signals — tangible and intangible — that make us want to write the first check. A candid inside view of what actually moves an early-stage investment decision.
Deep technology companies face a unique challenge: the timelines required for scientific progress often exceed the patience of early-stage investors. We share frameworks for managing this tension and securing patient capital without giving away too much equity too early.
The next generation of enduring technology companies will not be built in a single market. We explore the structural changes in capital availability, remote operations, and developer ecosystems that have made geographic diversification a competitive advantage rather than a logistical challenge for seed-stage founders.
Climate tech is no longer a niche ESG play—it's the defining investment opportunity of the next decade. Curevstone Capital explains why we're betting on the trillion-dollar climate transition.
Deep tech requires patient capital. Curevstone Capital explains how we evaluate 10-year return profiles at the seed stage, with lessons from PsiQuantum, Commonwealth Fusion, and Form Energy.
How Bending Spoons built a $11B tech empire not by building from scratch, but by acquiring stalled products and rebuilding them into growth machines — and what it means for the future of startup building.
From Copilots to Agents to AI-enabled Services: how large language models are reshaping business models across every industry, and what this means for founders building in the AI era.
What the story of Return Helper and founder Roy Wan teaches us about the true meaning of a first check — and why the right early investor changes everything for a startup.
Stripe, Wise, Zoom, Revolut — the most transformative companies of the past two decades were built by founders who came from somewhere else. Curevstone Capital explores why outsider perspective is a startup superpower.
LTV is one of the most misunderstood metrics in the startup world. Here's what lifetime value really means, how to calculate it correctly, and how early-stage founders should use it to make smarter decisions about growth, pricing, and fundraising.
Venture capital firms almost universally decline to sign NDAs before initial meetings. Here's why — and what founders can do to protect their business without one.
Why AI infrastructure is the defining investment opportunity of the 2020s — and how Curevstone Capital is positioning at the seed stage to capture it.