The world of startup ventures is the hot spring of human ingenuity, wealth and well-being. The way this venture world is organized matters.
The life of a founder is all about getting traction, fast product-market fit and a go-to-market strategy that works. The life of an investor is all about spotting the future early at the lowest risk. We found that risks and rewards in the venture world are not well aligned. RAIN re-adjusts that. Focus needs to be on speed and traction.
RAIN puts enterprise sales back at the center. We found high levels of friction for simple tasks. RAIN standardizes processes and it structures the go-to-market process. We found slow speed. RAIN brings speed. Venture organization matters. RAIN.
Chairman of the Board
Former Goldman Sachs Partner. PhD Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Non-Executive Director
Director and Chairman on the Boards of Pershing Square and Longview Partners
Non-Executive Director
Former Goldman Sachs Partner. Former Head of Non-Institutional Sales, Japan & Asia, Goldman Sachs
Non-Executive Director
Former Investment Committee at PIMCO. Senior roles at World Bank, JP Morgan, Moore Capital
RAIN has a team with a passion for deal making, financial structuring, venture investing, technology innovation, community development and building new kinds of businesses.
The people at RAIN know how to combine doing things differently with running a serious financial institution.
Risks and rewards for founders and investors are not properly aligned for maximum speed to success.
Everyone has seen it. Founders diluted too early carrying most risk, investors resigned to buy on promise, underpaid deal makers and salespeople relative to the value they contribute, outsiders finding it hard to be discovered by insiders.
The startup ecosystem lacks efficient standardization and processes.
Everyone has seen it. Every negotiation is bespoke and takes a long time. Everything is illiquid. Nothing scales with ease. Contracting is hard.
Revenue trajectory matters, product-market fit must become a science and not remain a religion.
Everyone has seen it. User growth that does not translate into revenues. Sentiment that reverses as fast as it emerges.
We created the RAIN Foundation to overcome these problems. Aligning rewards. Putting processes onto efficient rails. Unlocking sales. This is RAIN.