Investment and mentorship, by design.
For over a decade we've built, mentored, and invested alongside some of the world's most ambitious VCs, angels, and founders. More than 80% of the time, we invest and mentor at once, because when we believe in a deal, we go all in.
The same operating support we give our own portfolio, available to founders we back and advise.
Round structuring, investor targeting, and narrative design that get the right term sheet, not just any term sheet.
Building the sales engine, from first hire to repeatable pipeline, drawing on what's worked across our own portfolio.
Recruiting the key hires that define scale, from first VP to founding executive team, using our own network.
Sharpening the story, the deck, and the investor updates that keep future rounds and LP relationships moving.
How the mentorship side of YOBE Ventures actually works.
Regular working sessions, not a slide deck once a quarter. We sit with founders on sales calls, hiring plans, and investor updates, more than 80% of the time alongside a direct investment.
It depends on the relationship. Most consulting work sits alongside a capital position; in a minority of cases we advise founders we haven't yet invested in.
Founders across our Ventures and Secondaries relationships, at the stage where sales, hiring, or fundraising decisions actually move the outcome.
Hands-on enough that founders treat us like an extension of the team, not a board seat that shows up once a quarter. That's the point of combining investment with mentorship.
If you're raising, scaling, or rethinking your go-to-market, let's talk.
