For investors

You're betting on the team. Read them like you read the numbers.

edease gives you human due diligence on the founders you back. Whether they'll deliver, where they'll strain, how they work together, and which partner from your side should take the board seat.

91% board-fit
Sarah K., your partner
The hardest part of the deal

You diligence the metrics for weeks. The team, you read in a meeting.

Financials, market and product get instrumented to the decimal. The people you are actually backing get a gut call over coffee. Yet that judgement is what most often decides whether a fund returner holds together or comes apart.

65%
of startup failures trace to people problems, not product · Noam Wasserman, Harvard
The team
what investors most often cite for backing, and the thing they assess least objectively
Before you wire

Read the team you're backing.

The half of the deal you currently judge by instinct, made as legible as the cap table.

Co-founder fit Maya Jordan
sten 5sten 10ThinkingRelatingDriveResilience
7
Complementary
where they differ
1
Shared strength
both strong
2
Shared gap
Composure, Patience

They complement each other, with one caveat. Jordan covers Maya's gaps in influence and empathy. But both run low on composure and patience, and that shared gap is what your next hire should cover.

Human due diligence

Read the founding team before you commit: drive, composure, how they handle conflict, where the founders align and where they'll strain. These are the qualities that tell you whether they deliver when the plan breaks.

The whole team

Not one founder. The shape of the team.

Lay the founding team across every dimension at once. The surface shows where they reinforce each other and the ridge no one on the team covers. Rotate it like a pricing surface and pin any point.

Team fitAtlas Robotics · 5 founders
avgDriveInfl.ConceptDetailEmpathyCompos.Adapt.Consc.MayaJordanPriyaLeeSamDimensionsFounders
sten 1
10gap → strength

A ridge and a fault line. The team is strong across Drive, averaging 8.2 of 10, but every founder sits below the average line on Composure, at 3.2 of 10 a systemic gap that no single hire fixes.

After you invest

Put the right partner on their board.

Tell edease what the company needs now and watch your partners re-rank by working style fit, with the board seat matched and the reasoning shown. The half of the job only you can do, made deliberate.

Read the founding team you're backing
Your partners ranked by working style fit
The board seat, matched and explained
Board matchAtlas Robotics
MCJL
Founding team, read
2 founders · complementary, scales well
Operational rigourGrowth & network
Your partners, by fit
SK
Sarah Kemp · OperatorBoard seat87
DR
Devi Rao · Technical81
MT
Marcus Tan · Growth79
Sarah takes the board seat. She covers the founders' operational gap and matches their pace.

See it on a team you know.

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Read your next deal's team.

30 minutes, a real founding team. We'll show you the read, and which of your partners belongs on the board.

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