Approximately 8 hours a week of hands-on operational support, delivered by our OpCo and Invested Advisor team and coordinated by the Accelerate team. This covers what the semester plan actually requires: customer discovery interviews, ICP development, pitch decks, GTM materials, financial and legal advisor briefings, organisational design. We do the work alongside you, not just advise on it. The people delivering this support are over 30 experienced operators and executives from across industries, covering every function a scaling business needs: Successfully exited entrepreneurs, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CTOs, CPOs, CMOs, and more. They work with portfolio companies actively, not as honorary advisors.

When you hit something specific, we move on it. Introductions to the right person, industry insight, regulatory compliance, technology decisions, document reviews. You make the ask; we route it to the right person in our team and network.

Every month you have a one-to-one with the senior Tramlines team member who is a domain expert on the above workstreams. These are working sessions, not check-ins.

We work alongside you at three levels, and the combination of them is what makes the difference between a framework and just a document to ignore.

Every four months we co-develop a detailed 16-week semester plan that translates the framework into specific objectives across product and technology, commercial, networks and distribution, financial model, operations, and team workstreams. That plan is live, tracked, and reviewed monthly.

Standard founder-friendly terms. We don't do predatory structures.

We're UK-focused, but not UK-exclusive. The company should have a UK connection.

We invest time, not just money. We work alongside founders—building ops, refining GTM, stress-testing models. Most VCs write cheques and wait.

No. We're a venture partner. We don't batch founders or run demo days. We partner deeply with fewer companies.

24 months of active partnership. After that, we're still investors and available—just less hands-on.

Most of our founders are. But what matters is domain expertise, not founder history.

Fintech, AI, and Enterprise Tech, but we're more interested in founder-market fit than sector labels.

£250k initial cheques with capacity for follow-on.

Pre-Seed. We typically write the first or second cheque into a company.