HOW IT WORKS
RANK
#1
Thomas Smith
PORTFOLIO VALUE
$85,000
FUND NAME
FRONTIER
RANK
#3
Angela Jackson
PORTFOLIO VALUE
$72,000
FUND NAME
50 STARS
RANK
#5
Luca Rivers
PORTFOLIO VALUE
$68,000
FUND NAME
LIMIT ORDER
Create Your Firm
Name your scout fund and share your thesis. Investments, follow-ons, and Chapter One participation update the season standings.
$100K
Build Your Portfolio
Deploy $100K across founders you believe in. Each investment is a pick on your roster.
Luca Rivers
Scout
Investor
Operator
Partner
Earn Carry, Build Reputation
Scouts keep 100% of the upside on their deals. And a track record that opens doors as investors and operators.
ANTIMETAL AUTOMATES MAJOR INFRA WORKFLOW - SCOUT 08 SPIKES
DURIN MINING STRIKES RICH ORE — SCOUT 03 CLIMBS
SCOUT 05 OVERTAKES SCOUT 02 FOR #1 SPOT
SCOUT 07 INVESTS $10K IN BETTER AUTH
HYPERBEAT VALUATION UP 28% POST-ROUND
SCOUT 04 FOLLOWS ON IN EREBOR
MENTORS
Kleiner Perkins, Partner
Union Square Ventures, Managing Partner
Khosla Ventures, Managing Director
Multicoin, Co-Founder
Game Changers, Managing Partner
Sound Ventures, General Partner
Marathon, Founding Partner
Theory Ventures, General Partner
LP MENTOR
Pathstone, Managing Director
LP MENTOR
Cendana Capital, Partner
More mentors coming soon.
TERMS
The Stakes Are Real
Every pick you make is backed by real capital — and real upside.
Manage
$100K
backed by Chapter One
Keep
100%
of upside (20% of total profits)
Chapter One backs your best deals alongside you.
REWARDS
Season 1 Rewards
Compete to earn next season carry, higher allocation, and exclusive perks.
Champion Investor
1st Place
Perks
Chapter One braintrust and inner circle access
Season recap feature and other press
Priority access to co-invest opportunities
Lead bigger positions and SPVs on high-conviction deals
All-Star Investor
2nd Place
Perks
Chapter One community access
Featured scout profile and thesis spotlight across channels
Invites to private offsites and working sessions
Breakout Investor
3rd Place
Perks
Access to private roundtables and founder sessions
Profile visibility
SCOUT CRITERIA
Who we're looking for
Operators, angels, and investors with differentiated taste, access, and conviction.
First believers, not fast followers.
Who we're looking for
You get the meeting no one else can
You hear about the founder months before there’s a company
You’re the first ‘what do you think?’ text
You live close to the weird edges of what’s next
You have strong non-consensus views, loosely held
You might be:
A founder or operator with deep founder empathy and trust
A product or engineering leader, equal parts consumer intuition and technical fluency
An investor who has a history of championing non-consensus deals
A connector with unfair access to outlier talent (and the places it forms)
Someone embedded in niche internet corners or deep offline networks
Themes we love
AI that creates new workflows and ways of doing things, not just features
Crypto as infrastructure for the new economy
Consumer and prosumer software that have an unfair distribution advantage
Category-defining, category-creating deep tech with commercially minded founders
New financial markets and instruments forming at the edges of culture
FAQ
How many investments should scouts make throughout the year?
How are scouts evaluated during the season?
What level of involvement does the program require?
Can I participate if I already work at a fund or scout elsewhere?
Will scouts collaborate with each other?
What happens after the season ends?
Will scouts be able to invest with a partner?
Interested in participating in Season 2? Drop us a line and you'll be the first to find out when applications open.
Your Move.
Only 10 players make the cut each season.
Real stakes. Real rewards.
The next season of venture is about to begin.
Are you in the league - or watching from the sidelines?
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