VESSEL THERAPEUTICS — closed deal

What actually happened

A seven-angel syndicate is administratively heavier than one fund, and most founders cannot run it alone. The value here was structural: one convertible instrument, one set of terms, two closes six weeks apart, and a single point of contact so the founders kept working on the science rather than on the cap table.

What Deux Rives did

Structured a single instrument across eight parties.
Ran the syndicate process and the second close.
Prepared the scientific pack for non-specialist angels.
Set up reporting cadence post-close on the Trinity stack.