For VC platform teams

See the value created across your portfolio.

Connect your portfolio companies with the peers and advisors who have already solved their problem. Every conversation feeds one view: who is helping whom, what your portfolio needs, and what changed as a result.

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The problem

Your portfolio already has the answers. They sit in different companies.

The Head of Sales who just rebuilt a pipeline and the one about to try are both in your portfolio. Most of the time, they never meet.

Intros depend on memory

Connections happen when someone on your team remembers who did what. With a team of one to three, most never happen.

The Slack channel goes quiet

People hesitate to ask a hard question in front of 200 others. The useful conversations happen one to one, or not at all.

Impact is reported as activity

Events run, intros made, perks claimed. Partners and LPs want to know what changed for the companies.

How it works

Enrol your portfolio in 10 minutes.

Share your portfolio list and send one email to your founders. We run everything from there.

  1. We onboard every company

    Invitations, reminders, and a short profile for each person: what they can help with, and what they need. On the web, or in a few Slack messages.

  2. We match across the portfolio

    You decide whether the matches are peer-first, peer-only, or including your advisors, consultants and operating partners.

  3. We schedule and follow up

    Booking runs directly through their connected calendars. Reminders and a short brief go out before each conversation, by email or in Slack.

  4. We capture what happened

    A 30-second check-in after each conversation, by email or in Slack, feeds your dashboard and quarterly report.

Head of Revenue · Pinewick

Looking for help with
“Moving from founder-led sales to a team of four AEs without the pipeline dropping.”
  • Scaling a sales team
  • Hiring

VP Sales · Larkspan

Can help with
“Built our sales team from 1 to 12 last year. Made most of the mistakes first.”
  • Scaling a sales team
  • Sales comp
  • Matched
Or straight from Slack

Tell us in a sentence, where you already work.

Add the PeopleTopics app to your portfolio Slack and people can skip the profile form. It asks what they are working on, takes requests whenever something comes up, and follows up after each conversation.

PeopleTopics
Monday, 12 October

PeopleTopics APP 9:02 AM

Morning Jamie. What problem is on your mind this week?

Jamie M. 9:14 AM

Moving from founder-led sales to a team of four AEs without the pipeline dropping.

PeopleTopics APP 9:14 AM

Thanks. Someone at Larkspan has done exactly this.

Rosa S., VP Sales at Larkspan. Built her sales team from 1 to 12 last year.

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What you see

A live view of value creation across your portfolio

Updated as conversations happen, and summarised every quarter in a report you can take straight into your partner meeting.

Engagement

Q1 2027

Portfolio reached

72%

23 of 32 companies have at least one person taking part

Avg. fund: 58%

Engagements

214

conversations held this quarter

Invited vs joined, by companyJoined / invited

  • Pinewick14 / 18
  • Mossdale8 / 12
  • Larkspan6 / 10
  • Quenby Labs4 / 9
  • Ferrowind0 / 6

Request to first conversation

4.2 days

median time from asking to meeting

Matches that met

91%

of matches led to at least one conversation

Your quarterly review

Numbers that fit the KPIs you already report

Most platform teams set their own KPIs and review them with partners every quarter. These are the ones we feed.

What you report onWhat PeopleTopics gives you
Portfolio engagement% of portfolio reached and engagements per quarterPlus invited vs joined for every company, so you know where to nudge.
Founder and team satisfactionProgramme NPS and a score for every conversationCollected after each conversation, never once a year.
Community and networkCross-company connections, and how many lastThe connection map shows exactly which companies you have linked.
TalentDevelopment of people across the portfolioWhat they worked on, what it helped with, and senior people giving back as peers or advisors.
Business developmentIntros to customers, partners and candidates that came out of a connectionReported by the people involved, three months on.
Portfolio support planningWhat your portfolio is working on, and where expertise is missingTopic trends and the give and get map tell you which advisors, events or content to line up next.
BenchmarksHow your portfolio compares with an anonymised average of fundsReach, action rate and lasting connections, side by side.
Trust

You set how much you see

Every fund and portfolio works differently. Choose the level that fits yours. Participants see it before they join, and any company can choose a stricter level for its own team.

  • Participation and engagement numbers
  • Topics, outcomes and NPS across the portfolio
  • Topics, scores and outcomes for each company
  • Who connected with whom
  • The topic of each conversation, and whether it led to an action
  • What was said, and messages between participantsNever shared

Conversations are not recorded. Everything you see comes from short check-ins that participants fill in themselves. The Slack app only reads messages sent to it directly.

Questions

What platform teams ask us

Next step

See it with your portfolio.

Twenty minutes. Bring your portfolio size and the KPIs you report on, and we will show you what your first quarter would look like.

Book a 20-minute call

Or write to sara@peopletopics.com

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