Live · 2026

AI-powered Deal Origination for VSS Capital Partners.

Tentt — Modern, AI-powered GTM systems for finance

02 Introductions

Hello — I'm David, and this is Tentt.

David Walker-Dobson

Founder · Tentt

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I've spent the last several years building outbound systems across SaaS, agency, and financial services — researching mandates, building target universes, running deliverability infrastructure, and qualifying conversations.

Now we focus purely on deal flow for financial firms.

What is Tentt

An AI-powered deal origination firm that builds and operates the proprietary flow underneath your team.

We are service-as-software — we handle and manage the technology and deliver outcomes, built, managed, and run for you, white-labelled within your brand, accountable to your criteria.

For · Private Equity Investment Banks M&A Advisors Commercial Lenders

03 How we work

A five-layer pipeline. Always-on.

Every layer feeds the next. Every cycle improves the next. No isolated tools, no handoffs that break.

01

Signals

Continuous monitoring of your target universe — leadership changes, hiring spikes, expansion, refinancing triggers.

02

Research

Verified contacts, decision-maker validation, mandate-specific qualifiers — before a single message is sent.

03

Outreach

Tiered cold email + LinkedIn under your brand. Dedicated infrastructure, deliverability-managed.

04

Qualify

Pre-qualification of replies before they touch your calendar — fit, timing, decision-maker access.

05

Deliver

Qualified meetings booked with full context. You walk in informed. Weekly iteration on what's working.

04 Case study · 01

Stealth Fund Web3 & Blockchain Deal flow + LP sourcing

Connecting a Web3 stealth fund with private projects & institutional capital.

Reach

62.3k

Qualified prospects contacted across both programmes

Engagement

4.41%

Reply rate · 531 positive email replies

Quarter 1

96 mtgs

Qualified meetings booked in a single quarter

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Web3 moves fast — we needed a way to get in front of the right founders and the right capital at scale, without anyone knowing David was involved.

Matthew Olapo · Founder, Professional Genius

05 Case study · 02

FX, Payments & Invoice Finance United Kingdom 5-person BDR team

A structural shift in how GC Partners originates business.

2,192

Connections deployed · 38.1% acceptance · 39.0% reply rate

Cold email

11.1k

Qualified prospects emailed · 491 unique replies, 200 positive

Calendar

54 mtgs

Qualified meetings booked entirely under GC's brand

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We had a team and strong product but lacked conversation volume. Tentt rebuilt our entire outreach operation, and within weeks we were having qualified conversations at scale we couldn't achieve internally.

Harrison Garrett · Head of Sales, GC Partners

06 Understanding VSS Capital Partners

What we understand about VSS Capital Partners.

600+ add-ons, 103 portcos — a signal layer extends deal flow the BD team can't manually cover.

01 · Your thesis

Mandate & criteria

StrategyLower mid-market PE + mezzanine, founder-owned cos
GeographyUS-focused, HQ New York NY
Scale$4B committed capital, 8 funds, $16.5B transaction value
TypeMajority/minority recaps, growth equity, add-ons
Approach35+ yrs; flexible capital across equity + mezz in same platform

02 · How we help

Where Tentt fits

Add-on origination — 600+ add-ons — proprietary target flow per portco, not bankers.
Founder readiness signals — Signal layer surfaces founder-owned LMM cos at inflection points.
Platform scale — 103 portcos across 8 funds — outreach volume BD alone can't cover.
Recap pipeline — Minority + majority recap targets identified before they engage advisors.
Mezz deal flow — Borrower origination mapped to VSS credit criteria, pre-qualified.

03 · Approaches

Angles we'd test

Portco add-on campaigns — Sector-mapped outreach per portco — adjacencies, bolt-ons, tuck-ins.
Founder exit signals — Hiring freezes, leadership transitions, domain-age flags in LMM targets.
Roll-up targeting — Fragmented verticals matching active platform theses — piped direct.
Recap timing triggers — Revenue milestones + age signals in founder-held cos near liquidity window.
Mezz borrower outreach — Sponsor-backed cos needing sub-debt — identified before bank engagement.

07 Our process

What happens once you're a client.

A five-stage onboarding from kick-off to live sending. End-to-end, transparent, time-boxed.

Stage 01

Onboarding begins

Engagement signed. We open your engagement tracker, assign your operator, and schedule your kick-off call.

Day 1

Stage 02

Onboarding call

Deep dive on your criteria, campaign strategy, and the signals we'll monitor against your target universe. We leave with a written brief — your single source of truth.

Week 1

Stage 03

Dedicated Slack channel

A shared channel between your team and ours — for live updates, signal flags, qualified intros, and ad-hoc questions. Always-on visibility, no scheduled status meetings.

Week 1

Stage 04

Infrastructure warm-up

We provision your dedicated sending domains, configure authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and run a 2–3 week warm-up to build deliverability reputation before any prospect message goes out.

Week 1–3

Stage 05

Sending begins

First outbound waves go live. Tiered, signal-driven, white-labelled. Replies handled and qualified before they reach your calendar. Weekly read-out from week one of sending.

Week 3+

08 Engagement

Two ways to start.

Both engagements are operator-led, white-labelled, and accountable to your criteria. Pricing scales with outreach volume and breadth of mandate.

Pilot

60-day diagnostic

£10k (~$12.5k USD) · flat · 60 days · TAM + signals

A defined window to validate fit. We map your TAM, configure signal monitoring against your criteria, and prove the model before scaling into a continuous engagement.

TAM mapping for your mandate — full target universe
Signal pipeline configured to your triggers
Mandate-matched account list, scored on fit + timing
Initial outreach wave + qualified responses
60-day read-out + scale recommendation

Recommended

Full origination

£6k / month (~$7.5k USD) · scales with signal complexity + £7k (~$8.75k USD) one-off setup · month 1

We act as an extension of your team. Continuous origination engine, white-labelled under your brand, accountable to your criteria. Pricing scales with the depth of signal monitoring and breadth of custom data needs.

Continuous signal pipeline — always-on monitoring
Custom data — enrichment, custom sources, scoring layers
Cold email infrastructure — dedicated domains, inboxes, deliverability
End-to-end sending — outreach, qualification, calendar handoff
Operates as an extension of your BD team

Let's build the origination engine underneath your team.

David Walker-Dobson

Founder · Tentt

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