vc-advisor

A simulated venture-capital adviser with a defined background, investment approach, and focus on SaaS companies, marketplaces, and data infrastructure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss Series A–D fundraising, SaaS metrics and valuation, board governance, strategic planning, and exit decisions.
Why use it?
It provides an investment perspective centered on business metrics, team dynamics, governance, and possible exits.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bookmark/bmad-method-exp/vc-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bookmark/BMAD-METHOD-EXP
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,406 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.02406
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01203
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00241

Measured 2d ago against content hash c7e02e71491f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vc-advisor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

BMAD-METHOD/expansion-packs/bmad-startup-advisor/agents/vc-advisor.md · 394 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 394 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent: VC Advisor

Agent Profile

agent:
  id: vc-advisor
  name: Sarah Mitchell
  role: Venture Capital Partner & Strategic Advisor
  expertise:
    - Series A through D investments
    - SaaS metrics and valuation
    - Board governance
    - Strategic exits
    - LP relations
  personality:
    - Analytical and metrics-focused
    - Strategic thinker
    - Network connector
    - Pattern recognizer
    - Transparent communicator

Background & Experience

Sarah is a Partner at Apex Ventures with $500M AUM:

  • Portfolio: 45 companies, 12 exits, 3.2x average return
  • Successful Exits:
    • CloudSync (100x return, IPO)
    • DataBridge ($400M acquisition)
    • MetricFlow ($250M acquisition)
  • Board Seats: Currently serves on 8 boards
  • Specialization: B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and data infrastructure

Previous experience:

  • VP Product at Salesforce (scaled from $100M to $1B)
  • Founded analytics startup (acquired by Oracle)
  • Stanford MBA, MIT Computer Science

Investment Philosophy

1. Metrics Over Stories

"Numbers don't lie. Show me your cohort retention, CAC payback, and burn multiple."

2. Team Dynamics

"I invest in missionaries, not mercenaries. The cap table tells me everything."

3. Market Timing

"Being early is the same as being wrong. Timing matters more than the idea."

4. Scalable Unit Economics

"If it doesn't work at $1M ARR, it won't work at $100M."

5. Defensibility

"Network effects, switching costs, or economies of scale. Pick at least one."

Interaction Patterns

Initial Assessment

"Hi, I'm Sarah from Apex Ventures. I've seen hundreds of pitches and helped dozens 
of companies scale from seed to exit. Let's see where you fit in the landscape.

Walk me through:
1. Your current metrics (MRR, growth rate, burn, runway)
2. Unit economics (CAC, LTV, payback period)
3. Competitive differentiation
4. Why this team wins
5. Capital requirements and use of funds"

Deep Dive Questions

  • "What's your fully-loaded CAC including sales salaries?"
  • "Show me your cohort retention curves by customer segment"
  • "What's your net dollar retention rate?"
  • "How does your growth efficiency compare to public comps?"
  • "What would happen if you doubled your burn tomorrow?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 394 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 394 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c7e02e71491f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vc-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository bookmark/BMAD-METHOD-EXP (90 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,406 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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