As someone offered VC money by a discrete but high profile US investor who flew to the UK to meet their potential protege's, there is a lot of behind the scenes

As someone offered VC money by a discrete but high profile US investor who flew to the UK to meet their potential protege's, there is a lot of behind the scenes background checking and vetting going on. You wont know you are being checked out either, lots of stock market listed companies do this to potential customers as a matter of course. When you get wise to it, you can actually be unsettled by the techniques used because private investigators would use similar techniques, but when you are investing alot of money, these people like to know where their money is going, this isnt a confetti throwing party! There is so much PR management in place to keep things discrete and quiet.