Every VC partner knows this scenario: It's 8 PM on a Tuesday, and tomorrow morning you have a partnership meeting where you need to provide an update on that promising SaaS company you led an investment in 14 months ago.
You frantically scan your inbox, trying to piece together fragments of information from scattered emails. You check LinkedIn to see if there've been any notable team changes. You Google the company name plus "news" to catch anything you might have missed. Crossing your fingers that nothing significant has happened that your founder forgot to mention.
After everything is said and done, you rinse and repeat this exhausting process at least 50 times because you don't just have 1 company to keep track of. Most partners have around 15-20, with some being saddled to handle over 50 (that’s for another story).
This is the reality of portfolio monitoring at most venture firms today: Reactive, incomplete, and fundamentally broken.
As a solution, most of you already have some CRM in place to keep track of your portfolio companies.
But you still need to spend time manually sourcing out the last updates of that company. And you and I both know only the mega funds have the resources to have a dedicated team sourcing and seeking out information.
For the rest, you just have to buckle up for another all-nighter, as usual.
In 2025, this does not have to be the case anymore. The days of 60-80 hour weeks being necessary needs to be over. Burnout benefits nobody.
Stay with me as I highlight how Kruncher can make your portfolio monitoring process 10x easier, so you can finally clock out at 5pm. Let's work smarter.