Pre-seed investing for founders at the very start
Gato writes the first check while the signal is still faint: before traction, before data, often before there is a product.
Early signals are faint. Most investors wait until they are loud enough to be sure. Gato listens at the start, when a company is a person, an idea and a lot of static.
How a first check starts
Three short steps. Everything begins with the note you can send from this page.
Send a note
Who you are, what you are building and a link if you have one. A deck is welcome, never required.
Talk it through
If it is a fit, we set up a call about the idea, the people and what the first money is for.
Get the first check
When we are in, we say so plainly and move straight to the paperwork.
Gato is Spanish for cat
Cats are built for faint signals. So is the work we do.
- A cat sees in roughly a sixth of the light a person needs.
- It hears up to about 85 kHz. People top out near 20 kHz.1
- Its whiskers register air moving around things it cannot see.
- And in 1906 a fine wire on a crystal, the cat’s whisker, let radios with no power of their own pull faint stations out of the air. It became one of the first semiconductor devices.2
Send Gato a note
Founders at the very start, and the people who back them early: the same note works for both.
Send a note