8.digital backs digital projects and noteworthy ventures sourced directly from founder proposals. Stage one is a loop of eight questions. Answer them well and you are in the process.
Conviction, craft and real personal stake. Those are the qualities we read for in every proposal.
Capital arrives with management support, networks and steady counsel, never as a wire transfer alone.
Projects that prove themselves in their own community earn the right, and our backing, to scale to the world.
Each question in our proforma exists to reveal one thing. Here is exactly what a partner is reading for, so you can answer with intent rather than guesswork.
Your opening sentence tells us how deeply you understand your own idea. Founders who can explain their company simply usually run it clearly too.
We want a problem that shows up often, costs real money or time, and belongs to people you can actually name. Mild inconveniences rarely fund companies.
Someone else could copy your idea tomorrow. We read for the reason they would still lose: your experience, your access, your speed, or your obsession.
Evidence in any honest form counts: revenue, users who return, a pilot in production, a working build. What we weigh is proof, not polish.
A credible first market you can genuinely win matters more to us than a huge one you can only gesture at. Scale is earned outward from a beachhead.
We look for a believable path from product to profit: who pays, what they pay, what it costs you to serve them, and why that improves as you grow.
The size of your raise should trace directly to a plan. We read the ask as a test of judgement: what the money buys, and what exists after it is spent.
We invest to hold, so the fit has to run both ways. Tell us what you need beyond capital and we will tell you honestly whether we can provide it.
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You answer eight questions in about fifteen minutes. No deck is required, and a partner personally reads every submission we receive.
Within ten working days you get a clear yes to a call or a clear no. Either way, you will know exactly where you stand with us.
Focused diligence and straight terms, backed by our own capital invested to hold, with guidance available whenever you reach for it.
Answer plainly. Numbers persuade us more than adjectives, and honesty more than polish. The progress bar fills as you go, every complete loop gets a partner's eyes, and you will have a reply within ten working days.