What is Investment Memo?
The written case for an investment: the company, the market, the risks, the terms and why now. A partnership decides on it, and writing it makes the investor state the reasoning before any money moves.
5 sections · one case · partners decide
An investment memo is…
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In real work
Hana's investment memo on the freight-audit startup ran four pages and gave a full page to the risks, which the partners discussed first.
In the illustration
Five tabbed sections drop into the binder in order: company, market, risks, terms, why now. The closed binder slides across to the partners' side, and only then do the three vote levers move and the decision flag rise.
Draft a one-page investment memo in your deal notebook from my notes below: the company, the market, the risks, the terms and why now. Mark every claim that comes only from the founder as unverified.
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