More than a check

“I can finally focus on actually building the true company.”

— Natalya Lopareva, Founder & CEO, Algorized

We back early-stage B2B software founders and embed a full-time operator to run everything but product and engineering — finance, hiring, marketing, ops. You keep building. We keep pace.

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Our strategy

Focused founders build stronger companies.

The teams we back learn and ship faster. They know their customer cold, hire strong people early, and make big bets with conviction. We underwrite speed, and we multiply it with our support model.

Teams we work with
  • Know exactly who they sell to
  • Ship product fast
  • Learn faster than the market
  • Attract and close strong talent
  • Stay obsessed with customers
  • Have real technical depth
  • See what others miss in the customer, market, or technology
  • Make big bets with conviction
Natalya Lopareva — Founder & CEO, Algorized
“It's the fund that can run as fast as the founders.”
Our Support Model

Operational drag should never be your bottleneck.

Every shuckerVC portfolio company gets a full-time operator: the Support Partner. They run finance, hiring, vendors, and reporting—anything that pulls your attention away from your product and customers.

What the model covers
2h/week
of founder time
Finance ops

Books closed by the second week of the month — start to finish, on just two hours of your time a week.

8h/week
of founder time
Recruiting

Four engineers hired end to end — sourced, screened, and closed — on eight hours of your time a week.

100% qualified
no wasted meetings
GTM

Every sales call you take is a qualified lead — pipeline built and screened before it reaches you.

12h on podcasts
earned media
PR

Your Support Partner handles the media — right shows, right audiences — so you just show up, and your reach with customers and investors keeps compounding.

Where the depth comes from

One hire. The depth of a firm.

You make one hire — a Support Partner, salary at cost. Behind them sits the firm: GPs who hire, train, and manage them, and a specialist bench on call when the work needs depth.

Your Support Partner

We source and vet the candidates — you pick whoever best fits your stage. Your Support Partner is on our W2, embedded full-time in your company, running finance, hiring, vendors, and reporting day to day.

Salary at cost — no markup, no dilution

shuckerVC GPs

Behind every Support Partner sit the fund's GPs — bringing their operating experience and the network of Support Partners across the portfolio. They hire, train, and manage yours — you never manage the manager.

Covered by the fund

Specialist network

On-call specialists in finance, people, growth, and security — pulled in when the work needs more depth than one operator.

At cost, on call
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Brian Atwood — Founder, Sindarin · on defensibility of systems of record
“It's just a software/agent interface — no UI or anything.”
Portfolio

The next interface shift, backed early.

Conversational AI is the biggest shift in interfaces in 40 years. The startups moving on it now are the ones that will lead.

Team

The people in your corner.

Operators first. JP and Graham are operators, not just investors — decades spent building, scaling, and running the back office we now run for you.

Support Partners

Exceptional operators, embedded in your company.

The exceptional talent behind every portfolio company — full-time operators we recruit, train, and embed to run the work that keeps founders on product and customers.

Megan Liu Alum

Megan Liu

Remained with Algorized

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Support Partner

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Insights

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Founders pick us over competing term sheets — for the operating muscle behind every check.