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Overdrive

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Deal, portfolio and LP data lives in Affinity, Dealroom, Vestberry and a dozen inboxes. We build the operating layer that connects them — and the agents that work inside it.

Running Overdrive systems
Highland Europe
  • 0 fundsrunning Overdrive systems
  • 0 CRMsintegrated — Affinity, Attio, HubSpot
  • 0+ hrsreturned per fund, per week

Right now, your fund runs on six tools that don't talk to each other.

Sourcing, screening notes, portfolio KPIs and LP updates move through email and spreadsheets — and every new deal adds more of it.

Deal records in three tools that don't agree Portfolio KPIs chased by email every quarter Memos and decks nobody can search The intro buried in a partner's inbox
Duplicate entries, missed follow-ups, no single pipeline view A week of associate time, every quarter The same question answered from scratch each time A pipeline review from three exports
The same KPI asked for twice A deck nobody can find LP questions answered from memory Signals nobody scored

Same week. Same team. A different set of problems.

The decisions behind sourcing, portfolio KPIs and LP updates.

Without a system
  • Deals duplicatedOne company appears in Affinity, Dealroom and a partner's inbox.
  • KPIs chased by handAn associate emails nine founders every quarter and pastes replies.
  • Memos start from zeroEvery screening memo is written from scratch, in a different shape.
  • LP answers from memoryWhoever remembers answers the LP, with the risk that carries.
  1. Deals duplicatedOne company record
  2. KPIs chased by handKPIs collected by an agent
  3. Memos start from zeroMemos drafted with citations
  4. LP answers from memoryLP answers with sources

Every stage of the fund writes to and reads from the same record. Pick a stage.

01 · Fundraising

Expand LP coverage and never miss a follow-up

LP pipeline, communications log and data-room agent — the fundraising tracker built for Sandwater.

VC OS: one record per company, fed by your data providers and documents, with agents working on top.

01

Operating system

  • Deal flow & screeningSourcing, scoring and stage progression against your thesis
  • Portfolio monitoringKPI collection, valuation marks, alerts on outliers
  • LP reportingQuarterly digests drafted from the record, approved by you
02

Knowledge layer

  • Memos, decks and data roomsIndexed and answerable — 41 documents in a first pass at Highland
  • Public signalsLinkedIn, Companies House, news, connected to the record
  • Fund contextThesis, past decisions and tone, so agents write like the fund
03

Agents we deploy

Each agent installs as a skill, connects to your data, and runs under permissions your team sets.

  • Sourcing & signal alerts
  • Deal intelligence
  • Portfolio monitoring
  • Fundraising tracker
  • Conversational agent
Case study · Venture capitalSandwater0 agentslive across the fund's stack
0%of the hours in the mapped workflows returned
Constraint
Deal, portfolio and fundraising data split across Affinity, Dealroom and Vestberry, with no shared memory between them.
System
An agent harness with a shared knowledge layer: deal intelligence, portfolio monitoring, signal alerts and a fundraising tracker, each deployed as a skill with its own permissions.
Result
One place the partners ask questions of the whole fund — and the agents keep the record current.

“I really commend you again for the way that you approach client service and the professionalism of your process.”

Claire · Partner, a Boston-based VC fund
Start here

Tell us about one workflow. We'll come back within a working day with what a system would look like — then you pick a time.

  • Map the workflow to the agents and systems that would run it
  • Build inside the tools you already use — no new platform
  • Move from a first increment to a system your team runs — in fortnights

We reply within a working day. No sequences, no SDRs.

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