For investors
Put someone in the portfolio who has already made these decisions.
Hendrik van Iterson works with venture capital funds, private equity firms and venture builders as an operating partner and technology advisor: technical due diligence before the cheque, and hands-on technology, AI and platform leadership inside portfolio companies after it — with a focus on the pre-seed to Series A stage where most value is created or lost.
Early-stage portfolio risk is rarely a market risk. It is a decision risk: a technology direction taken by people making it for the first time, with a board that finds out two quarters later.
Before the investment
Independent technology due diligence and an honest read on the technology story: what is real, what is roadmap, what is architectural debt priced as ambition, and whether the leadership in place can get to the next milestone.
- —Technology and AI due diligence
- —Platform and data potential — is there a defensible position or a feature
- —Build/buy/partner reality check on the roadmap
- —Leadership assessment: can this team execute the plan they are pitching
- —Independent sparring for the investment committee
After the investment
Deployed across several early-stage portfolio companies rather than embedded in one. Enough presence to change decisions, enough distance to stay honest with the fund.
- —Fractional technology leadership where the company cannot yet justify a permanent CTO
- —Milestone de-risking between rounds — what has to be true before the next raise
- —Capital efficiency: what genuinely needs to be built and what does not
- —AI opportunity, separated from AI expenditure
- —Platform, partnership and ecosystem strategy
- —Support through scale, transformation or leadership transition
Why a portfolio arrangement works
The same decisions recur across early-stage companies, and the pattern library compounds. One person who has taken those decisions repeatedly across a portfolio is faster and cheaper than each company learning it alone — and gives the fund a consistent, comparable read on technology risk.
Engagements are contracted through 10Myth B.V. and structured per fund: retained portfolio coverage, per-company mandates, or diligence on demand.
Questions I get asked
- Does Hendrik van Iterson work with VC and PE funds?
- Yes — as an operating partner and technology advisor to venture capital funds, private equity firms and venture builders, covering technology and AI due diligence before investment and hands-on technology leadership inside portfolio companies afterwards.
- Can he be deployed across several portfolio companies?
- Yes. Portfolio coverage is the preferred shape: recurring involvement across a set of early-stage companies, with deeper mandates where a company needs sustained technology leadership.
- What does technology due diligence cover?
- The technology and AI story, platform and data potential, architecture and build/buy/partner choices, technology investment, key-person and leadership risk, and whether the plan presented can realistically reach the next milestone.