Interesting idea: VCs should have in-house finance folks specifically meant to work with portfolio companies who spent a few days a month for year 1 after investment, or until the company gets it own finance team. Most VCs do less than 10-15 deals a year, so this seems tolerable and a relatively low cost way of to really know what's going on with the portfolio. (I know some VCs already kind of do this (Vantage Point). Also, harder for YC, given # of investments, so maybe not as applicable for true seed funds but still might be worth it - I'm sure they could get 5 mid-career CPAs for the price of one partner, and they would love the job! I think)

The fun part is that then the VCs will have a direct line into the company's nitty-gritty operations, which really they are entitled to receive anyhow (though usually they just take the board deck at its word..which is not always good).

This might suck for the company since you have the VC in-the-know on your nitty-gritty (though I'd argue that if you don't want them in-the-know, you should not have taken their $$...though I understand it's more complicated than that haha), BUT that might also serve to incentivize the company to build out the finance team quickly, and also give the management team a taste of what a good finance person can provide (assuming the person the VC provides is good, which they should be if they are to be trusted with multiple portfolio companies).