Pipeline screening for PE: Type A on every target in the pipeline; promote to Type B only when the pipeline narrows.
PE investment professionals, deal-team analysts, and operating partners running pipeline screening.
A mid-market PE fund screening 200 targets in a single vertical runs Type A on every one — drops 40 with sanctions or adverse-media concerns before the team writes the first IC memo.
A growth fund evaluating Series C+ targets pulls Type A across the founder roster as a sanity check before issuing term sheets.
A secondaries fund evaluating LP transfers screens each underlying portfolio company with Type A to confirm no reputational decay since the original investment.
Type A is the fastest way to clean a pipeline. We deploy it on every new target the day a teaser lands.