Iterative

Founders supporting founders 🤝 YC-style accelerator for Southeast Asia | Our applications for batch W26 are now open 👉

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

The defensibility isn't a product insight.
It's execution and team composition.
Once the engine is running, it's hard to copy. PE floor, VC ceiling. That's the bet.

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

What if instead of selling to customers, you just bought them? That's the AI roll-up. And it might be the most underrated GTM strategy for founders in Asia right now.

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

Three questions to stress-test your industry:
Can AI automate the core service, not just the back office? Still running on pen and paper? Has PE already rolled it up and pushed valuations high?
Yes, yes, no — you're in rollable territory.

[Slow Ventures @slow]

Selling out 40,000 seats with zero existing followers isn't a content strategy, it's @CloutedHQ's formula for an era of distribution-first marketing.

"The only thing remaining valuable is distribution and
data. The Clouted team has built real infrastructure for a problem that every brand and creator in the world has but nobody has solved at this level." @lessin

Today, Clouted is announcing their $7M round led by us, alongside @GoldHouseCo, @weekendfund, @ZVC_Official, @GondorCapitalIO, @IterativeVC, @AppWorks,@_surgeahead, and @speedrun.

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

Right now, she still goes line by line in Airtable to check his work. The day she stop doing that is the day our “intern” graduates. Building with AI is a skill. You only get better by doing it.

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

Our portfolio manager built an AI intern to help manage support for our 380+ portfolio founders. She said training him felt a lot like training a human one. Except he doesn't make the same mistake twice. Here's what she learned: 🧵

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

Train via comparison, not rules. She’d write her own version of a ticket, ask him to compare, and tell him to apply what he noticed. It was easier than explaining every rule or preference from scratch.

[Amit Grovio @amitkumar0331]

Life of building @GrovioAI ⚡️

3 pm Taking a session with our community members at @ns onboarding users !

7 Pm travelling to meet other founders and funds in Singapore 🇸🇬

@NUSingapore @IterativeVC

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

Is the founder journey lonely? Sometimes.

One big reason is pressure to look put together in front of customers, teams, and investors

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

🚨 We're less than 5 days away from the end of year deadline. If you'd like for us to invest before the year ends, apply by Monday, 8 December. https://t.co/TXkuys5d1Q

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

You're at Iterative's final interview and you don't know the answer. What do you do?

A. Bluff your way through
B. Say you don't know
C. Quit the call and never come back

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

Many founders think they need to present this polished, flawless version of themselves... but everyone that interviews you at Iterative has been a founder before, so they know what it really takes to build a startup.

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

In-person interview sign-up📌 https://t.co/bk1zwT4Usl

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

🇸🇬 Interview in person, hear back by EOD

Fundraising is a LOT of waiting to hear back. For our upcoming W26 batch, we want to move fast: we're trying a small number of in-person interviews in Singapore, where you'll hear back from us on the day itself.

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[Iterative @IterativeVC]

Agree or disagree: the best way to become a great founder is to expose yourself to other great founders

[Iterative @IterativeVC]

Anyone else feel guilty about taking breaks?

Lots of founders do. The most common reason we’ve heard: feeling like your company “isn’t where it should be”