Resources

Investment philosophy, technical thinking, and observations from the team.

Ben Smith

From Agency to Agent: Rebuilding the InReach Brand

We once hired a brand agency to name and position InReach. This time I rebuilt the whole brand, guidelines, style guide, logos, website and decks, by running the same process with an AI agent.

Ben Smith

Agents Are the Easy Part

AI agents will soon handle sourcing, screening and diligence, and venture firms will get flatter for it. But an agent is only as good as the platform underneath it, and that platform, not the agent, is the part you cannot buy.

Roberto Bonanzinga

AI Agents and the End of Venture as We Know It?

Venture capital has become bloated. The next generation of firms will be small, partner-only, and powered by AI agents, not analysts and associates.

Roberto Bonanzinga

A Philosophical Approach for Investor-Founder Alignment

Misalignment is the silent killer of startups, and it has nothing to do with bad ideas or execution. A framework for matching investor philosophy to company maturity.

Roberto Bonanzinga

InReach Ventures: Embracing the Next Chapter

Fund II, Amanda's promotion to GP, and the next phase of InReach, doubling down on world-class technology to scale across Europe.

Ben Smith

The Platform Engineering Approach to VC

How InReach applies platform engineering principles across Data, Intelligence and Workflow layers to find Europe's best startups before anyone else.

Roberto Bonanzinga

Revenues or No Revenues? This Is the Question

Not all revenues contribute equally to shareholder value. A framework for thinking about the quality of revenue at the earliest stages.