FROM INSIDE THE FUND
The fund's operating system, taken out of the fund.
Aureum applies the same four-axis scoring to every raise and every portfolio operation it touches. Grow Today runs it on your business, before you're in the room.
Depending on where you actually are today: I'm raising capital · I'm operating, want AI leverage · Both · I'm on the other side.
Founded by Zach Zelle
The general partner underwriting founders inside the fund, and grading the ones outside it through Grow Today.
The GP behind $25M+ raised and 2M+ users scaled.
Zach Zelle is the Founder and General Partner at Aureum Capital, a Miami-based venture firm, and the official venture strategist for Superteam USA, Solana's US accelerator. He's spent his career on both sides of the table, scaling companies as an operator and now writing checks into the founders he underwrites.
Scaled Matrica Labs to 2M+ users and 5,000+ businesses: Zach ran the growth side that took Matrica from early product to a platform used by millions of users and thousands of teams, and the operating instincts from that run inform every deal Aureum looks at today.
Helped founders raise $25M+ in capital: Every raise Zach has coached ran through the same Institutional Readiness lens Grow Today surfaces to founders, from the deck rebuild to the diligence stack to the partner meeting prep.
Official Venture Strategist for Superteam USA: Zach advises the founders Superteam USA (Solana's US accelerator) backs, putting him in the room with dozens of the strongest emerging teams in the country.
Runs a monthly private event series with curated groups of founders and investors in Miami: Every month Zach pulls together a curated room of operators and the investors backing them, and the strongest assessments earn an invitation.
General Partner, Aureum Capital
@zachzelle on XGrow Today is the hands-on founder services platform built by the team at Aureum Capital. Information on this site is for general informational purposes only. It is not investment advice, and it does not create an attorney-client, fiduciary, or advisory relationship. Nothing here is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy securities.
The framework
The Institutional Readiness Grid.
Aureum built this grid to answer one question in partner meetings: where does this deal die, if it dies? Four axes cover the four places it usually does.
Founder archetype
Their deck is doing all the work. Everything behind it is younger than the story suggests.
Start here
Score your position on the grid.
Answer a few questions. Get a scored snapshot delivered by email in 60 seconds, plus the exact next step we recommend for someone in your position. One email. No sequence spam. If your answers point to a fit for our paid work, someone from Grow Today reaches out directly.
What we build
Two tracks. Same operating standard.
Fundraising
Deck, warm intros, diligence, deal support.
For founders running a live raise or preparing to run one this quarter. From pre-first-check through paper stage.
warm circuit · institutional flow · paper stage
How the fundraising track works →AI Operations
Ops mapping, tool orchestration, adoption architecture.
For operators whose team is running the business but the systems can't keep up. From solo to $10M+ ARR.
ops leverage · attribution · orchestration
How the AI track works →The assessment routes you. Or take both if you're building both.
Insights
Market Due Diligence.
Notes from inside the fund and from the founders we work with.
Memo 001
The Institutional Readiness Grid: Aureum's four-axis framework for scoring every founder deck.
By Zach Zelle · Published Aug 10, 2026
Read the memo →Memo 002
Operational readiness is now a diligence question.
By Zach Zelle · Published Aug 10, 2026
Read the memo →Memo 003
Where founders actually lose deals: 47 failed rounds on the grid.
By Zach Zelle · Published Aug 10, 2026
Read the memo →Graded the same way
Take the assessment →FAQ
The straight answers.
Start with the assessment.
One assessment. One recommendation. Human review on the other side.
Miami events
Join the private events list for founders and operators in Miami.
Curated dinners. One invite at a time. No sequence spam.