Team Due Diligence for Investors
You invest in people, not just ideas. ETA Scan gives you the intelligence to know if those people will actually work together.
The Problem with Traditional Due Diligence
Current methods leave critical blind spots in your investment thesis.
of startup failures trace back to team issues
Co-founder conflicts, skill gaps, and misaligned visions kill more startups than bad markets or products.
(Research by Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman in The Founder's Dilemmas)
spent on manual due diligence
VCs spend 20-100+ hours on due diligence per deal, and still miss critical interpersonal dynamics.
(Affinity, TDK Ventures)
typical seed investment at risk
When a portfolio company fails due to team risk, you lose more than capital. You lose reputation.
(UK VC data, median)
Works With Your Existing Workflow
No new dashboard to check. No platform to learn. ETA integrates directly with your deal tracker. Scores appear alongside your other deal data.
Works with Google Sheets, Excel, and common deal flow tools.
Why Smart Investors Use ETA Scan
Trained on 20,000+ Teams
Our pattern recognition is built on thousands of founding team assessments, spotting warning signs that gut instinct and reference calls miss.
Surfaces What Founders Won't Say
Each founder answers separately. We cross-reference their responses to reveal misalignments in vision, commitment, and expectations.
25+ Risk Patterns Analyzed
From co-founder conflict to solo founder risks, commitment gaps to technical skill holes: we flag issues across the dimensions that actually kill startups.
15 Minutes, Not 15 Hours
Founders complete the questionnaire in ~15 minutes each. You get a full report without weeks of reference calls.
LP-Ready Reports
Generate professional PDF reports for investment committees and LP updates. Structured, standardized, defensible.
Compare Teams Across Your Pipeline
Standardized risk scores let you objectively compare teams, not just within a deal, but across your entire portfolio of opportunities.
Before vs After ETA Scan
Without ETA Scan
- Hours of reference calls that miss the real issues
- Subjective gut-feeling decisions
- Miss hidden co-founder conflicts
- Surprised by team blowups post-investment
- No standardized team comparison
With ETA Scan
- Structured questionnaire reveals hidden dynamics
- Data-driven risk quantification
- Surface commitment gaps & vision misalignment
- Deep analysis across 25+ risk patterns
- Compare teams across your pipeline
"ETA Technologies' assessment provides us with invaluable insights into the strengths of management teams, which will allow us to make more data-driven decisions."
Ed Stevenson
Investment Executive, SFC Capital
What's Hiding in Your Pipeline?
See how many red flags go undetected without structured team diligence.
Teams you evaluate per quarter
hidden red flags per quarter
teams with undetected risk
Based on 20,000+ team assessments. On average, 1 in 2-3 teams has at least one critical red flag invisible to standard diligence.
Ready to Invest Smarter?
Your first team scan is free. See what you've been missing.