FOR VC & PE INVESTORS

Shaping
teams to win.

AI to identify and build winning teams. A leadership analysis platform for investors and their portfolio companies.

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Three teal office chairs on a winners’ podium labelled R&D, CEO and M&S.

In the investment process at

ONE PLATFORM. TWO PRODUCTS.

From the first meeting
to the next stage of growth.

Identify the winning team.
Then build it to win.

Before you invest → After you invest. One team analysis. A shared starting point.

TEAM DUE DILIGENCE · BEFORE YOU INVEST

Identify the winning team.

Look beyond the pitch. Understand the team’s strengths, leadership gaps and fit with the business you want to back.

Assess whether the team can deliver the next 24 months of its business plan

Ground your judgement in data on strengths and gaps

Support your IC proposal with a structured team assessment

“What should we agree before closing?” ↗

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TEAM OPTIMIZER · AFTER YOU INVEST

Build the winning team.

Turn the Twinshape analysis into a 100-day plan for leadership, talent development and board appointments. Start with a pilot at one portfolio company.

Define the leadership team the business needs

Decide where to develop talent or recruit

Keep execution moving with workflow management and human follow-up

“What profile should our next COO have?” ↗

Explore Team Optimizer ↗

THE PLATFORM / SAMPLE TEAM ANALYSIS

Fictional company. Fictional people.

See the team.
See what to build.

The dashboard and digital twin provide a shared foundation: Team Due Diligence supports the investment decision; Team Optimizer helps the venture act on the findings. Explore the sample below and click a yellow flag to see its sources.

Twinshape InsurDemo dashboard: business context, leadership score, headcount and five leadership function cards. — Inside Twinshape · InsurDemo dashboard⚑ Click a yellow flag

Is the team ready for the next 24 months?

Weak

Key roles missing or below level

Gaps

Some roles not fully covered

Ready

Equipped for the next 24 months

Strong

Ahead of what this stage needs

AAA

Exceptional

Well beyond what this stage needs

This sector, this business, this stage, these milestones and challenges.

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Team due diligence, within 24 hours ↗

MEET YOUR TEAM’S DIGITAL TWIN

Your digital twin.
In your AI workspace.

QUESTIONS YOU CAN ASK

What leadership gaps could hold back our growth?

What profile should our next COO have?

How does this candidate fit the team’s needs?

Here’s one in practice: Claude Cowork uses InsurDemo’s digital twin to create a COO / VP Operations job profile.

Claude Cowork conversation connected to InsurDemo’s digital twin. The user asks for a COO or VP Operations A-player scorecard. The response draws on CloseUp analysis, identifies an operations coverage gap and CEO overload, and provides a mission, measurable outcomes, timelines and hiring criteria. — Actual conversation in Claude Cowork using the InsurDemo demo company’s digital twin. The screenshot shows an excerpt of the response. Swipe sideways to explore, or open the full screenshot above.

From a team gap to a job profile. The response connects the role to business milestones, defines measurable outcomes and sets criteria for candidate evaluation.

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THE BUSINESS SETS THE BAR

The right team.
For this business.
At this stage.

A strong team in one context may need a different shape in another. Twinshape connects what the business requires with what the people bring.

01 / CONTEXT

What does the business need?

Sector, build stage, domain expertise and the milestones ahead define the leadership requirements.

01 / CONTEXT

What does the business need?

Sector, build stage, domain expertise and the milestones ahead define the leadership requirements.

02 / PEOPLE

What does the team bring?

Skills, experience and expertise, with personality and team dynamics explored as richer evidence becomes available.

03 / FIT

Where should you act?

See the strengths to build on, the gaps to close and the questions to investigate. Use that insight to shape the team.

THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE ANALYSIS

Built by people
who have built companies.

Twinshape started in January 2025. Founded by Wouter Deelman, CEO, and built with Toon Alfrink, co-founder & CTO, with input from seasoned investors and serial entrepreneurs.

Meet the people and thinking behind Twinshape ↗

Wouter Deelman

Founder · entrepreneur · investor

Toon Alfrink

Co-founder · CTO

800+

companies analysed

clients

January 2025

Founded

Used by investors and M&A firms in Europe and the US.

TEAM DUE DILIGENCE / CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

VC & PE investors / EU & US

What investors say.

IC decisions

“We’ve made the Twinshape dashboard mandatory for every IC proposal. I want a neutral second opinion on the table.”

Hubert Deitmers

Managing Partner, Endeit Capital

Deal flow & portfolio

“We tested Twinshape on over 80 ventures and became convinced: we now apply it on every deal, not just the ones we doubt. Pre-termsheet and for portfolio management.”

Heleen Plante

Team Manager Capital Energy & Circular, OostNL

Finding the upside

“We ran a one-month pilot evaluating 19 companies. Six were red-flagged and dropped from the pipeline. Four stood out for having exceptionally high-caliber teams and were fast-tracked.”

Ernie Bio

Managing Director, Forgepoint Capital

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People research

“Twinshape’s People Deep Research repeatedly surfaced red and yellow flags we hadn’t caught in our own process.”

Ian de Graaff

Investment Manager Circular and Cleantech Energy, OostNL

Independent analysis

“The analysis surfaced the exact issues I spent weeks of calls discovering. I’m trained to write neutral memos, but I still fall in love with teams. Twinshape gives me an unbiased second opinion.”

Ata Şenkon

Investment Manager, Rubio Impact Ventures

Team dynamics

“The CEO interrupted his own team fifteen times across three meetings. You would normally feel this after a year in the boardroom.”

Reynaldo Kirton

Principal, Forgepoint Capital

Screening

“Saves us serious time in screening.”

Frederik Brandstrom

Analyst, Endeit Capital · excerpt

Transcript analysis

“Their transcript analysis matched how the conversation felt, but built on actual quotes”

Ian de Graaff

Investment Manager Circular and Cleantech Energy, OostNL · excerpt

A few good questions.

1. How does this fit in my tech stack?

Twinshape fits into your existing deal flow and investment process. API connections bring the analysis into your CRM or in-house tools. MCP lets your AI workspace retrieve and question the analysis, for example in Claude Cowork or ChatGPT/Codex. We agree the setup around your tools and access requirements. Your team keeps working in its existing environment, with Twinshape supplying the leadership analysis.

2. Is Twinshape software or a consulting firm?

Twinshape offers two products on one platform. Team Due Diligence delivers a reviewed analysis, dashboard and digital twin. Team Optimizer helps the venture execute a 100-day plan with the digital twin, AI tools, workflow management and human follow-up.

3. Where does the evidence come from?

We analyse evidence across four streams, depending on the report and the material available: Public sources: agentic research into professional profiles, company information and leaders' track records. Venture documents: pitch decks, CVs, investment memoranda and other company material. Meeting transcripts: evidence from conversations with the leadership team. Reference conversations: input from people who have worked with the leaders, where available. The depth depends on the analysis you choose. QuickScan combines public-source research with venture documents. CloseUp adds meeting transcripts, personality and team dynamics, and competitive team benchmarking.

4. Does the team need to complete questionnaires or assessments?

For Team Due Diligence, no. Our leadership analysis uses the available evidence. We do not ask the team to fill in personality questionnaires or sit a separate assessment. Personality and team dynamics are explored through richer evidence, such as meeting transcripts.

5. What makes the platform AI-based?

The evidence is brought together in a data room. A snapshot of that data runs through an AI workflow that researches and analyses the team in its business context. A person checks the resulting analysis and dashboard. Through an MCP connection, your AI workspace can then ask questions about the digital twin and its sources.

6. Is the sample a real client or leadership team?

No. InsurDemo, all named people and the example data are synthetic. The sample demonstrates the dashboard format without publishing a customer report or personal information.

7. How do the two products work together?

Team Due Diligence helps investors assess the team before closing. Team Optimizer turns the findings into a 100-day plan for the venture. The investor introduces a portfolio company for a pilot. The venture is the Optimizer customer, owns the vacancy and remains in charge, supported by Twinshape and its tools.

8. What goes into the digital twin?

The analysis starts with the business context and public information about the team. Depending on the analysis, venture documents, meeting transcripts and other evidence add depth. The twin makes that team analysis available for questions and further exploration.

9. Do you recruit the people?

Preselected search firms approach candidates and deliver shortlists. Through Team Optimizer, Twinshape helps define role scorecards, build the candidate longlist and manage the workflow and follow-up. The venture interviews and decides, with board approval where required.

10. Where should we start?

Start with a company name and website. We agree the analysis and any additional material needed. Your Team Due Diligence analysis is available within 24 hours; we review the findings with you. To build a portfolio team, start with a Team Optimizer pilot at one venture.

TEAM DUE DILIGENCE / FIRST ANALYSIS FREE

Put one team
through Twinshape.

Start with a company name and website.
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The analysis behind the answer ↗

Shapingteams to win.

Shapingteams to win.

Shapingteams to win.

Identify the winning team.Then build it to win.

Identify the winning team.Then build it to win.

Identify the winning team.

Build the winning team.

See the team.See what to build.

See the team.See what to build.

Is the team ready for the next 24 months?

Is the team ready for the next 24 months?

Is the team ready for the next 24 months?

Your digital twin.In your AI workspace.

Your digital twin.In your AI workspace.

The right team.For this business.At this stage.

The right team.For this business.At this stage.

What does the business need?

What does the business need?

What does the team bring?

Where should you act?

Built by peoplewho have built companies.

Built by peoplewho have built companies.

What investors say.

What investors say.

A few good questions.

A few good questions.

Put one teamthrough Twinshape.

Put one teamthrough Twinshape.

Shaping
teams to win.

Shaping
teams to win.

Shaping
teams to win.

Identify the winning team.
Then build it to win.

Identify the winning team.
Then build it to win.

See the team.
See what to build.

See the team.
See what to build.

Your digital twin.
In your AI workspace.

Your digital twin.
In your AI workspace.

The right team.
For this business.
At this stage.

The right team.
For this business.
At this stage.

Built by people
who have built companies.

Built by people
who have built companies.

Put one team
through Twinshape.

Put one team
through Twinshape.