For funds
Your founders are asking you what they should be asking each other.
Platform teams exist because a fund's most valuable asset is the other companies in it — and the mechanism to use it is usually a spreadsheet and a warm intro.
Hiring a first engineer
Is askingDid exactly that six months ago
Has the answerNegotiating an enterprise contract
Is asking
Just closed one
Has the answerHiring in Berlin
Is askingAnswered that three months ago
Has the answer
The bottleneck is the plumbing.
A portfolio founder needs to hire their first engineer, and the best person to help them is the founder in your portfolio who just did that six months ago. Today, the mechanism for connecting them is you — an email, a warm intro, a message you have to remember to send.
Your platform team, if you have one, exists to solve a connectivity problem that shouldn't require a team. The founders would help each other if there were a place where that happened naturally, and there isn't — so the request routes through you.
A room for your portfolio.
A community on CHiiRO for your portfolio. Your name, your rules, your moderation. Inside it, an archive for the answers worth keeping.
When one founder asks how to negotiate an enterprise contract, the founder who just closed one answers — and the answer stays findable for the next founder who needs it.
Why the archive beats a chat tool
Chat works for the live conversation. It fails completely at the durable one. The answer your portfolio founder gave about hiring in Berlin three months ago is gone — and nobody scrolls back.
An archive where answers stay with their question and are searchable turns your portfolio's collective experience into something that compounds. The next founder with the same question doesn't need to ask it again — they find it.
Inside the archiveWhere this honestly is.
We're saying it because the alternative is implying traction we don't have, and you'd find out immediately.
- What it is
- A community on CHiiRO for your portfolio. Your name, your rules, your moderation, and an archive for the answers worth keeping.
- What it costs
- Nothing during the Founding beta. Paid plans for private communities and investor access are coming.
- What is built
- Communities with a join queue and member removal, archive, connections, messaging.
- In use today
- By no fund yet. This is an invitation, not a reference. The first fund to try it will shape what portfolio communities become on CHiiRO.
What funds ask.
What happens when you write to usCan VCs create portfolio communities on CHiiRO?
Yes. A fund can create a community on CHiiRO for its portfolio — carrying the fund's name, rules, and moderation. It supports a question-and-answer archive where answers stay with their question and are searchable.
How does CHiiRO help with portfolio platform services?
By giving portfolio founders a place to help each other directly — without routing every request through the platform team or the GP. The archive means answers compound across time, so the next founder with the same question finds it instead of asking it again.
Does CHiiRO charge venture funds?
Not during the Founding beta: there is no fee for a portfolio community. Paid plans for private communities and investor access are coming, and nothing is charged today. CHiiRO provides the infrastructure because the founders in venture portfolios are exactly the people the network is built for.
Are any venture funds using CHiiRO today?
No. This is an invitation, not a reference. The infrastructure is built but no portfolio has run through it yet. CHiiRO states this plainly rather than implying traction it does not have.