Just so there's no uncertainty about this: we have never, in 4 years of doing this, told a startup we funded about an idea we read in an application from a group we didn't fund.
The explanation for this is pretty simple: the groups we like, we fund.
The explanation for this is pretty simple: the groups we like, we fund.
In this case, what incentive do you have to keep the idea to yourself, and not tell/hint at it to a funded startup?
That we promised to. And in actual fact it is very rare to hear a good idea from a group we don't want to fund. I can only remember being constrained by our policy once, when a group we interviewed had an idea I thought would be useful to Bountii (I think it was).