Can you leverage media and community into an early start startup funding platform? That’s the bet that UK-based OPUS plans to make with its international membership network of founders and operators. The project, dubbed Day Zero, will be a venture investment platform aimed at backing technology startups from their earliest days across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, combining capital from individual investors with access to the OPUS network. Mike Butcher of Pathfounders spoke to OPUS founder Sam Tidswell-Norrish about how they think they can make it work, and where it might end up.