Northwood is built for venture capital and investment firms that want a calm, high-end site. It rests on three linked content collections (portfolio companies, the team, and an insights journal), so the portfolio directory, company pages with funding histories, sector pages, partner profiles, and fund statistics all come from the content rather than being typed twice. A single geometric sans, a light grey palette with grainy charcoal panels and warm-to-cool glows, and a full-width dusk photograph set the tone, and the output is fully static.
It is ideal for VC funds, angel syndicates, growth and private equity firms, and agencies building sites for investment clients that want a fast site that is straightforward to fill with their own portfolio, team, and letters.
Features
- Portfolio directory filterable by sector, stage, and status, with text search, grid and list views, and filters kept in the URL
- Company pages with logo, status, facts, founders, lead partner, a funding-history timeline, and related insights
- Sector pages with a thesis, themes, figures counted from the portfolio, companies, and the partners who cover it
- Partner and team profiles grouped by role, listing the companies each person leads and what they have written
- Insights journal with essays, investor letters, playbooks, and news, with category archives and pagination
- Investor letters set as letters, with a sign-off built from the authors
- Fund statistics with firm totals and a fund table with TVPI, DPI, and net IRR, from one config file
- Portfolio breakdowns by sector, stage, and status, and a list of realised exits
- Pitch form for founders with criteria, next steps, and a FAQ
- Collections that reference each other, validated at build time
- Full-width photographic hero with film grain and grainy dark panels lit by a warm-to-cool glow
- About page with a timeline that adds every fund close and exit to your milestones
- Company logos from SVG files drawn in the text colour, with the name as a fallback
- Privacy, terms, and regulatory disclosure pages in Markdown
- Reading-progress line, share sheet, and keyboard search palette for the journal
- Canonical URLs, sitemap, RSS, robots.txt, Open Graph, Twitter/X cards, and JSON-LD for articles, people, and companies
- Self-hosted Outfit and Lucide icons, with colour and type tokens in one stylesheet
- Accessible skip link, landmarks, labelled controls, visible focus states, keyboard support, and reduced motion
Best Used For
- Venture capital firms
- Seed and early-stage funds
- Growth and private equity firms
- Angel syndicates and networks
- Corporate venture arms
- Family offices
- Agencies building sites for investment clients
- Firms that want a portfolio, team, and letters in one build
- Firms moving off a site builder to Astro
- Funds that want a fast, fully static site
