First-touch emailAssociate
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First contact from inbound forward by D. Kim, external advisor.
Subject
Quick intro from D. Kim
Body
Hi Aanya,
Devi Kim flagged Vertex Foundry yesterday. Your pre-seed thesis on inference orchestration overlaps cleanly with the AI infra cohort we have been building. Three of our portcos are running close to your ICP.
Not sure where you are in the seed, but happy to grab 30 minutes to see if we can be useful (lead, syndicate, or just a sounding board).
This week or next?
Sasha · Veridian Capital
Post-meeting digest
Attendees: Aanya Iyer, Devi Patel, Sasha Patel
Strong call. Founders pitched their inference router thesis. Discussed pre-seed lessons, model-provider passthrough math, and reference list. Action items: founders to share Stripe export and bank statement, send three customer-call intros, and walk through latency benchmark methodology. Sasha to circle on diligence checklist by Friday.
Action items
AanyaShare Stripe export + bank statement (last 90 days)done · received May 12
DeviWalk through latency benchmark methodologydone · advisor signed off May 11
AanyaThree customer-call introsdone · all 3 completed May 12-14
SashaCircle back with diligence checklistin progress · 18 of 24 done
Sequence cadence
D+0
First-touch · sent May 14
D+5
Reply received · 30 min Zoom scheduled May 16
D+8
Post-meeting digest · drafted, in card
Async screening form
Stage and round size
$4M seed at $24M post · lead seeking
Three customer references with permission to contact
Volute, Beam Health, Stratus Cloud · all completed
Production traffic and latency targets
p99 within 240ms · multi-region
Current model-provider concentration
71% one provider · 2 more in active integration
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