US Growth Fund Stress-tests Nine Robotics Companies Before Term Sheet
The fund needed to separate real in-house capability from reseller stories in the robotics component space. We designed a uniform question set so answers across nine companies were directly comparable.
Route
Two trips covering reducer makers, arm assemblers and two humanoid startups; identical scoring matrix applied at every site
Outcome
Four companies dropped out after discrepancies between claimed and observed capacity. One investment closed; the fund reused our scoring matrix for two later deals in the same sector.
“They did not just open doors. They told us which doors were worth opening, which saved us roughly a month of wasted travel.”Operating Partner
Operating Partner, US growth equity fund
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