About
VP Incubator has not made its first investment. We could have waited to build this page until we had logos to put on it. We would rather tell you where we are and let you judge.
Why we exist
The hardest part of starting a company is rarely the idea. It is the eighteen months where the idea has no revenue, no team, and no address — and where the founder is spending half their attention on rent, hardware, and finding somewhere to sit.
Most early-stage capital solves for the money and leaves the rest to you — then makes you work out the terms in a room where the other side has done this a hundred times and you have not. We would rather put the whole band on a public page and spend the meeting talking about your company instead.
And we happen to have built an office. It is new, it has everything a small team needs, and it costs our founders nothing — not because a desk is what we are selling, but because we had the space and it would be strange to charge you for it. Use it or don't. The money is the same.
What we believe
We are not going to make anyone move cities to take our money. But for a two-person team still deciding what to build, a room with other people doing the same thing is worth more than any amount of scheduled mentorship — so the room is there, free, for whoever wants it.
The best applications we expect to receive will come from people no one has funded before. We read for clarity of thinking. Where you worked is context, not evidence.
Founders lose months to investors who will not close the loop. Every application here gets an answer, and where we can be useful, a reason.
We have a preference for businesses that are sustainable in the ordinary sense — ones that could still be running in ten years — and for ones that leave their industry better than they found it. We apply it as a tie-breaker, not a filter, and we are not going to pretend we can measure it.
Where we are
Being first into a new incubator is a real risk and we are not going to talk you out of noticing it. You would be betting on people rather than on a track record.
What you get in exchange is attention. A first cohort is the one an incubator cannot afford to get wrong, and the one where your call actually gets picked up. When this page eventually fills with company logos, they will be there because the first few founders took that bet — and we intend to earn it.
Team
Founder and team profiles are being written and will be published here shortly.
We have not funded anyone yet. Applications are read on a rolling basis.
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