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An angel investor reviewing a founder's deck over coffee

Origination for angel investors

You keep the judgement. Jude keeps everything else.

Jude finds founders at the point of their first key hire, researches the record, and writes the first email in your own voice. You spend your time on the conversations, and none of it on the digging.

Below is one approach, from the founder Hyper finds to the reply that starts a conversation. Both sides shown, so you can see exactly which parts stay with you.

Illustrative example
  1. A segment view. The filter reads founder-owned, under five years old, first key hire advertised, within an hour of Edinburgh. Seventeen businesses found, five rows listed, and Nairn Instruments' row is lifted and held.

    Hyper finds the founders at the moment backing starts to matter.

  2. Nairn Instruments' record, stage Researching. Three signal lines: first engineering hire advertised last week, founder's second company with the first acquired in 2021, and an innovation grant on the public record in March.

    A second-time founder, hiring for the first time.

  3. An email and a landing page generating side by side, with the three research signal lines above them dimming from magenta to grey as the email writes. The email's subject is Nairn Instruments, from someone who has built one. The landing page carries Nairn Instruments' own name and colours. A send counter reaches nine.

    Hyper found the moment. The email offers a person, not a fund.

  4. An Outlook inbox. Robbie Nairn's reply is open: you are the first person to ask about the business rather than pitch me software, the hire is real and so is the stretch, what did you wish someone had told you at this stage. The original campaign email is quoted underneath it.

    Founders answer people who have been there.

  5. A Teams chat with Jude. Three messages: Robbie Nairn has replied, Hyper wrote to Nairn because of the first hire and Robbie's own history, and a draft reply is already in Moira's Outlook drafts.

    Jude briefs you with the evidence, privately.

  6. Jude's draft open in Outlook, labelled Drafted by Jude. Moira has replaced the first hire changes the founder's week more than the product with my first hire quit in month three and it was the best thing that happened to us, I will tell you why.

    Moira adds the scar Jude could not have.

  7. The CRM record for Nairn Instruments. The stage has moved to In conversation, a new activity line reads reply sent by Moira Tennant and logged by Jude, and the next action is coffee in Edinburgh before the hire starts.

    The record keeps itself.

  8. The closed record, held, with the closing line: Hyper finds the founders worth backing early, you bring what you learned building.

    Hyper finds the founders worth backing early. You bring what you learned building.

Read the transcript

The founder you'd back tomorrow is out there today, making a first hire and not knowing your name.

Hyper finds that moment and opens it the way you would yourself: one experienced person writing to another.

You bring the scars and the judgement. I keep everything else: the record, the follow-up, the next step. Backing early stops being luck.

Hyper ran the engine. You kept the relationship.

01 / THE ENGINE

Every founder worth backing has a first hire once.

Nobody can watch every young company for the moment its first key hire goes up. The founders worth finding are the ones already building something real, at the exact point backing starts to matter.

Hyper finds that founder and researches the record. You set what counts as a fit.

What Hyper prepared

The cohort and the campaign

  • Seventeen businesses matching your own criteria, found among many.
  • Three researched facts on Nairn Instruments before a word was written: the hire, the founder's history, and the grant on the public record.
  • An email and its own landing page, generated together, carrying Nairn Instruments' own name and colours rather than yours.

What you decided

The criteria and the line

  • The stage of founder you actually back: founder-owned, under five years old, a first key hire advertised, within an hour of Edinburgh.
  • That the first key hire is the moment worth writing about, and that the email offers a person rather than a pitch.
  • That every page carries the founder's own name and colours, never yours.

02 / THE ANGEL'S WORLD

Robbie replied with a question, not a pitch.

A reply that asks what you wish someone had told you deserves more than a form letter, and it deserves it quickly. Jude does not let it wait.

Jude reads the reply, checks the record and drafts the answer. You add the one thing only you can say.

What Jude prepared

The brief and the draft

  • Read Robbie's reply the moment it arrived and checked it against the record.
  • Confirmed the fit against the moment Hyper found, in a Teams message with the facts named.
  • A drafted reply in your own Outlook drafts, opening with the honest answer to what Robbie asked.

What you decided

The reply that was sent

  • Replaced Jude's line about the first hire with your own scar.
  • Approved and sent the reply, under your own name, within the hour.
  • The relationship, which stays yours from the first coffee onward.

How the work splits

The work Jude takes off your plate.

  • The finding. Jude watches for founders reaching their first key hire across your patch, so the introductions come to you instead of the other way round.
  • The homework. The record, the research and the first email arrive done, written in your own voice, and nothing goes out until you've read it.
  • The follow-up. The record, the next step and the nudge all keep themselves, so backing early stops costing you your evenings.

You bring the scars and the judgement backing early needs. Jude brings everything else, on time.

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