For Micro VCs
Sub-$10M fund. Twenty to forty checks. A management fee that barely covers rent. You don't need enterprise software — you need a platform that understands your math.
You wake up to 14 cold inbound decks, two LP requests for your latest portfolio update, and a founder asking if you can intro them to a Series A lead. You haven't had coffee yet.
By noon, you've screened six decks, taken three calls, and realized the quarterly letter is two weeks late. Your portfolio data lives in a Google Sheet that three founders still haven't updated. Your LP portal is a Dropbox folder. Your "deal pipeline" is your inbox.
You're not disorganized. You're under-tooled. The platforms built for $200M funds don't care about your $5M fund — and they price accordingly. So you duct-tape together free tools and hope nothing falls through.
"Every micro VC knows this feeling: you're building a fund and a firm at the same time, with the budget for neither."
When your management fee is your entire operating budget, every dollar you spend on tools is a dollar you can't spend on deals, travel, or hiring.
$5M Fund at 2%
$100K
annual management fee
Typical Tool Stack
$12K+
Carta + DocSend + Visible + CRM
Archstone
$3,564
everything, one platform
The bottom line
Your management fee is $100K. Carta costs $7,200/year. Archstone costs $3,564/year. That's $3,636 back in your pocket — and you get more features, not fewer. Over a 10-year fund life, that's $36,000+ in savings.
What changes when you stop duct-taping and start operating.
Before Archstone
After Archstone
Every module is designed for the micro VC reality — high deal volume, lean team, tight budget.
You're sourcing 200+ deals a year to write 20-40 checks. The pipeline tracks every intro, every screening call, every pass — so nothing falls through.
Monitor 20-40 companies with automated founder data collection. Quarterly metrics roll up into a portfolio view your LPs will love.
Share your fund deck, LPA, and subscription docs with LPs through a professional, branded data room. Track who viewed what.
Give your LPs a login where they see their commitment, quarterly letters, and fund performance. The same experience a $500M fund offers.
"Looking institutional to your LPs isn't vanity — it's survival. A $5M fund that runs like a $50M fund raises Fund II. A $5M fund that runs like a side project doesn't."
Your $3M fund generates $60K/year in management fees. Archstone is $3,564/year — about 6% of your management fee. For that, you replace your data room, LP portal, portfolio tracker, deal pipeline, and compliance tools. The alternative is cobbling together 4-5 tools that cost more and don't talk to each other.
On the Starter plan, you can track up to 20 companies. The Pro plan at $497/mo gives you unlimited companies, plus automated founder data collection that makes tracking 30, 40, even 50 companies manageable for a solo GP.
Archie is your AI operations layer. Tell it "summarize the last 10 decks I uploaded" or "draft a pass email for the deals I marked no." It handles the repetitive work so you stay focused on the deals that matter.
You don't have to use everything on day one. Most micro VCs start with the data room and LP portal, then layer in the deal pipeline and portfolio tracker as they deploy. Archstone grows with you.
Carta charges $7,200+/year for fund administration and cap table — and that doesn't include a data room, deal pipeline, or LP communications. Archstone gives you all of that for $3,564/year. And our support actually responds to small accounts.
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