What you get as an Alchemist founder.
You get a proven methodology, refined over fourteen years: hands-on support from top-tier operators, regular time with your peers, tested playbooks and access to the investors you need to scale. From the day we invest, you are part of this community.
From day one to your first deals.
As long as you are building toward a venture-scale outcome, our team, network and resources are yours. In your first year, we roll up our sleeves and build with you.
Your Founder Plan
A senior team member reviews your company with you and sets your priorities.
Your Partner
An operator matched to your business and equity-aligned with you. They work with you as an advisor, not in office hours.
The method, applied
An enterprise sales playbook for how you sell, from your first ten deals through procurement and pricing.
Intros and fundraising
Introductions to customers and investors through the Vault, plus support from our team when you raise.
The biggest deals take time to build.
Your enterprise sales cycle can run nine to twelve months. The large, long-term deals are built over many conversations, so your support lasts as long as the sale does.
“Demo day is a moment. Building an enterprise company takes years. We're there for all of it.”
It starts with your company.
It begins with your Onboarding Call. A senior Alchemist team member reviews everything we already know about your company, fills in the rest with you, and builds your Founder Plan.
- Your Founder Plan: your Partner match and the resources to engage with first
- An Alchemist Partner, one of our top-tier operators, matched to the business you are building
- Prioritized business goals, set with your Partner across your first year
- A Success Manager, your point of contact at Alchemist from day one
“Alchemist meets companies where they are and is hand in hand with them from day one.”
Co-founder, Alchemist
Operators who have built billion-dollar companies, on your extended team.
Alchemist's Partners have taken companies all the way to real enterprise revenue, and many built unicorns. You are matched with the Partner who can best support your business.
We match you with the Partner who knows your kind of business best, and you set prioritized goals together.
Your Partner is equity-aligned through Alchemist, so you have no advisor shares to negotiate and no extra line on your cap table. Their incentives match yours.
You get industry expert-led sales training, including how to build your Customer and Technical Advisory Boards.
A few of our Partners
40,000 mentors, reaching most of the Fortune 500.
Through the Vault, reach mentors and industry professionals around the world whenever you need them, with most of the Fortune 500 represented.
Sales
Go-to-market and enterprise sales.
Technical
The build and engineering decisions.
VC
Fundraising from the other side of the table.
Marketing
Positioning, messaging, and demand generation.
Industry
Experts from across the Fortune 500.
Enterprise traction has a method.
You win an enterprise deal by building relationships across the buyer's team and learning from every conversation. Our method, refined across more than 750 companies since 2012, turns those lessons into your pipeline: you find champions, then turn them into buyers.
We teach you how to earn your own access to the buyers who decide. The relationships you build are yours, and they keep working for as long as you are building.
Your first ten deals
Those contracts are how you learn your buyer and discover what your company really sells.
Procurement and security
Run the questionnaire and the review with someone who has been through hundreds.
Building support
Find the champion, the economic buyer and everyone in between, and keep them aligned.
Pricing
Set a price an enterprise buyer will take seriously, and hold it.
Fourteen years building resources, now open to you.
Hard-won playbooks and relationships, available from day one and for as long as you are building.
- The Vault. Our network of 40,000 subject-matter experts around the world, with most of the Fortune 500 represented, for mentorship as you need it
- Perks. Over $500K in negotiated founder offers, from cloud credits to reduced legal and banking fees
- Storytelling Fundamentals. Shape the narrative behind your commercial and investor pitches with our experts
- US Landing program. For international companies, in San Francisco, at partner locations or virtually
- Office space. Your own desk in San Francisco, alongside other portfolio founders
One person who knows your company.
Your Success Manager is your point of contact at Alchemist from day one. They know your Founder Plan, help you navigate everything available to you, and connect you to the right people and resources at the right time.
Over $500K in founder perks.
Negotiated offers from our partners, so more of your capital goes into building the business.
Cloud credits
Credits with cloud providers to build and scale your product.
Legal
Reduced fees on the legal work every company needs.
Banking
Reduced banking fees as you set up and grow.
Every firm says it has a network. The Vault is the one you can see.
The Vault is how you reach our network: 40,000 mentors and industry professionals around the world, across nearly every industry, with most of the Fortune 500 represented. You are invited in the day we invest.
Log in and see who is in it, what they have built and how Alchemist knows them. It does not live in anyone's phone contacts.
It holds your toolkit too: the playbooks, refined across 750 companies, the material behind the methodology, your fundraising assets and the way your company gets put in front of investors.
A network you can see is a network you can use, for as long as you are an active portfolio company.
A community of founders building alongside you.
Weekly lunches
Join other founders in our San Francisco offices, plus Partner-led dinners on peer group topics.
Founder Series
Every two months, hear from a portfolio founder on their challenges and lessons, virtually.
Investor Showcases
Meet investors at invite-only mixers in Silicon Valley, every Spring and Fall.
Founder Retreat
A multi-day gathering in Silicon Valley every January, with founders, mentors and Partners.
Raise when the timing is right.
Structured support when you're ready to raise, on your timeline.
- 1:1 sessions with our Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations to shape your strategy and build your investor list
- Bi-weekly drop-in office hours for quick advice
- Fundraising modules on pitch narrative, data rooms and term sheet negotiation
- Digital investor materials that market you to our investor network globally
- Invite-only Investor Showcases in Silicon Valley, every Spring and Fall
Practice before it counts.
A virtual summit designed to simulate your first meetings with VCs. Get direct feedback on your story, your numbers and your answers, then walk into the real ones ready.
Building something for the enterprise?
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