Episode 1 uses proprietary data-driven tools to scrape LinkedIn, Product Hunt, and GitHub to identify promising founders before they have much online presence, often becoming the first fund to contact them and sourcing about 25% of new investments this way. The fund focuses exclusively on pre-seed and seed B2B software companies with a mandate to get them to Series A, claiming 73% of their portfolio companies successfully raise Series A rounds, while providing intensive whole-firm support that founders describe as having the entire partnership engage with each investment.