General Resources
Our mission is to help entrepreneurs build great businesses. As active partners, we strive to invest our experience, partnerships, and knowledge, in addition to our capital. We often are asked to provide insight into how we evaluate business plans and investment opportunities, and to suggest resources that aid entrepreneurs in their pursuit of venture investment. We hope the following recommendations will help you prepare for a successful venture capital journey.
Chrysalis’ specific investment criteria can be found on our Investment Criteria page.
When reviewing investment opportunities, we tend to keep in mind a set of questions generally applicable to early- or expansion-stage companies. Regardless of whether you approach us or another investor, ready answers to these will offer a strong foundation for discussion.
Increasingly, we find resources for entrepreneurs springing up across the web, and recommend the following as particularly useful:
Many entrepreneurs are also themselves sharing insights and recommendations. Consider starting here for a list of such sites:
Chrysalis has also sponsored a free tool meant to help entrepreneurs connect with venture capital firms. We hope you will approach us first, but if we are not a fit, the Venture Capital Database (VCDB) should help you find funding.
Chrysalis is always looking for the next great early-stage or expansion-stage company and would like to hear about yours. Please send us your business plan at businessplans@chrysalisventures.com.