Threshold helps funders build stronger venture portfolios and move the ventures they already back. We identify what is holding each venture back, help founders take focused action, and turn that work into evidence of progress that unlocks the next decision.
Animation: founder activity moves across a dark field toward a bright line. Activity alone does not cross it. An outside response, such as a customer paying, presses against the line, breaks through and is marked in colour.
Which are stuck, why, and what would help them earn their next commitment?
See the portfolio preview → N° 02 · BUILDYou have a mission and capitalWe design, select and support a venture portfolio built to move your mission forward.
Explore BUILD → N° 03 · SCALEYou have a proven modelWhat will it take to extend your impact?
Explore SCALE →The founder discovered that his offer was speaking to technical teams instead of the finance head making the buying decision. After reshaping the approach, he reported that three stalled pilots became paying customers.
“The biggest shift was working out who my customer really is.”
Comfort used customer economics to identify hospitals as a promising channel, then built an outreach list with AI. She reached out to 11 hospitals, closed four deals, and one hospital ordered 20 carriers before returning for 30 more.
“Before Threshold, most of our decisions were guesswork.”
Founder-reported progress from our 90-day Fast Track within an existing fellowship.
The people behind Threshold have built and run learning and venture programmes across countries, worked with founders facing real delivery constraints, and designed technology that helps teams act. This is their prior experience, brought together for LIFT and BUILD.
Nihal Ahmed
Abhijit Sinha
Iris LapinskiAdvisorNihal and Limitless have built learning and venture programmes across five continents. Abhijit Sinha has created community-led learning spaces in six countries, opening entrepreneurship pathways in marginalised communities. Iris Lapinski, founder of Apps for Good, helped take its work to 1,000 schools.
Akshay Cherian
Norm TrainorAdvisor
Patrick MeierAdvisorAkshay Cherian and Norm Trainor bring venture coaching and operating experience. Patrick Meier, an advisor, is a five-time founder who has deployed technology in more than 40 countries and now leads sustainable ventures at beVisioneers.
Varun PerumalAdvisorAkshay CherianVarun Perumal, an advisor, has built hardware, software and AI with major global technology companies. Akshay translates AI into practical tools, workflows and assistants for founder and programme work, with people approving consequential actions.
These are contributors’ prior roles and experience, not outcomes attributed to Threshold or endorsements by their organisations. Meet the team →
Busy founders and polished reports can still leave the hard question unanswered. Which ventures are actually getting stronger?
Foundersdo the work.
Thresholdturns focused action into evidence of progress.
Youdecide where to back, adapt or pause.
Same system, different route. The baseline pinpoints what is blocking the next result. The support changes with the bottleneck.
A founder gets support because a result is stuck, not because it is “sales week”.
Build a priced offer. Put it in front of a real buyer.
Founders first learn practical methods for discovery, offers and decisions. Those skills become repeatable workflows for research, outreach, follow-up and operations. Where useful, automations handle routine steps. As a founder is ready, supervised personal agents can prepare and coordinate work, with the founder approving consequential actions.
AttendanceConfidenceProjections
We begin with a rigorous baseline: the venture’s goal, current traction, constraints and the evidence needed for its next step. Weekly targets and check-ins turn that baseline into action. Regular reviews compare what happened with where the venture started, so founders and funders can see what moved and decide what comes next.
LIFT
Hands-on support for ventures already in motion. Start with a Portfolio Preview.
BUILD
Turn a mission and capital into a venture portfolio you can back.
One standard. Different routes. Each venture works towards a meaningful next result, with evidence that fits its model. Sponsors retain control of capital, with investment decisions made independently.
A customer, funder or partner commits money, access or a defined pilot.
The commitment happens again, with a clear process and workable economics.
The venture can sustain its team and impact beyond fellowship support.
Every venture has a next result agreed at entry
We also strengthen the systems, leadership and team practices that help ventures deliver, grow and prepare for future capital.
What a sponsor sees for each venture. The fields are real; the example entries are illustrative and show no outcome.
Every dollar and every hour should buy down uncertainty. What must we learn, prove or put in place for this venture to take its next step? We work backwards from that decision, then focus support and capital on the smallest useful action that reduces the uncertainty: a buyer test, a delivery improvement, a new operating system or evidence for a future funder.
Will someone pay, adopt or renew?
Decide what further support or capital is justified.
Build the evidence a bigger buyer, lender or funder needs to see.
Review, do the work, check proof on Friday.
Fund only what reduces the uncertainty.
Dated, attributable and checkable.
Who should want this venture after us?
Owns the mandate and partner relationships.
Tracks what each cheque helped achieve.
Set up with the sponsor before delivery. Independent of Threshold’s delivery team.
What changed?
Starting point, work shipped, outside proof and a recommendation.
Who backed it next?
New contracts, repeat demand and follow-on funding.
Who benefited?
Outcomes linked to the mission.
The follow-up period is agreed in each engagement. Each check answers a funding question, not just a reporting requirement. We report contribution, not proven causation.
Tell us roughly how many ventures you back and the constraint you want to examine. We reply to scope a 60-minute conversation.
Request a Portfolio Preview → BUILD · 60 minutesMap a mission with us.Bring one mission. In 60 minutes, map the target ventures and what the first three months should test. If there is a fit, we scope the paid design phase.
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