THE VENTURE INTELLIGENCE COMPANY

80 Years. 1M+ Venture Rounds.

The Venture Brain Is Awake.

One growing intelligence brain learning from more than 80 years of companies, capital, investment decisions and outcomes across the global venture ecosystem.

Transforming decades of ecosystem activity into intelligence for better investment decisions.

Invest with DiligenceGPT™ Source smarter. Evaluate faster. Invest with greater conviction.

Built for venture funds, CVCs, family offices and institutional investment teams.

DiligenceGPT StartupFuel profile with enriched company data and an AI-generated diligence response
LIVE PRODUCT VIEWDiligenceGPT™ pipeline intelligence
80+Years of Venture History
10M+Startups/Companies
100K+Capital Organizations
35K+Institutional LPs
15K+Venture Programs
1M+Venture Rounds
50K+Venture-Backed Exits
$5T+Capital Deployed

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THE KNOWLEDGE GAP

Most firms review deals. Few retain what they learn.

Investment knowledge is often scattered across inboxes, pitch decks, spreadsheets, data rooms, meeting notes, and individual partners. The decision gets made, but the reasoning, evidence, and context rarely become reusable firm intelligence.

Fragmented deal data

Company information arrives through disconnected channels and inconsistent formats.

Inconsistent screening

Opportunities are evaluated differently depending on who reviews them.

Repeated research

Teams recreate market maps, comparable sets, and diligence work.

Lost institutional knowledge

Past decisions and partner insights are difficult to retrieve and apply.

More tools, limited context

Generic AI can generate an answer without understanding the fund’s thesis, history, or workflow.

Your firm should not start from zero on every deal.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Every deal should strengthen the next decision.

The value of investment software is not simply how quickly it produces a report. It is whether every review leaves the firm with better data, stronger memory, clearer criteria, and more informed judgment.

01
Capture

Bring every opportunity and source into one structured workflow.

BUILT FOR THE ENTIRE MARKET

Different participants. One shared infrastructure.

FOR STARTUPS

Become investor-ready and easier to discover.

  • Create and maintain a structured company profile
  • Measure investment readiness
  • Organize a scored data room
  • Generate investor tear sheets
  • Publish and control a Raiseboard profile
Explore Startup Tools
StartupFuel / Startups

STANDARDIZED WORKSPACE

Startups infrastructure
VICS™ profileCurrentReadiness signalIllustrativeRaiseboard visibilityControlledEcosystem intelligenceConnected
THE VENTURE INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

A common language for the global venture ecosystem.

VICS™ is StartupFuel’s proprietary taxonomy for converting unstructured startup and venture data into a consistent classification system.

Designed to become the most comprehensive and accurate classification framework for global startup and venture data.

RAW COMPANY DATA

AI software for hospital workflows

Healthcare automation platform

B2B clinical operations SaaS

VICS™ NORMALIZED RECORD

Primary industry

Secondary industry

Technology

Business model

Stage

Geography

IndustrySub-industryTechnologyBusiness modelCustomer typeCompany stageFunding stageGeographyInvestor typeProgram typeImpact category

Comparable intelligence begins with comparable data.

FROM DATA TO SIGNALS

A live intelligence layer for private markets.

StartupFuel is building an independent intelligence and ratings layer for venture markets—organizing fragmented ecosystem data into consistent benchmarks, signals, and decision-support tools.

STARTUP FORMATION TREND · ILLUSTRATIVE DATA
ACTIVE VIEW · GEOGRAPHY
Toronto Seed SaaS+12.4%Illustrative data
Canadian Climate Technology+8.7%Illustrative data
U.S. Pre-Seed Healthcare+5.1%Illustrative data
Global Accelerator Cohorts+10.8%Illustrative data

Like a credit or market-intelligence infrastructure layer for venture capital—built independently for founders, funds, programs, governments, and ecosystem leaders.

THE NETWORK EFFECT

Every participant makes the ecosystem more intelligent.

ECOSYSTEM
INTELLIGENCE
Compounds as data stays current
1Founder data
2Program outcomes
3Investor review
4Raiseboard discovery
5VICS™ standardization
6DiligenceGPT™ analysis
7Live benchmarks
8Better decisions
CONNECTED DISCOVERY

One submission. Multiple relevant networks.

Approved, founder-controlled profiles can appear across relevant global, national, regional, industry, program, event, portfolio, and partner Raiseboards.

FOUNDER-CONTROLLED PROFILENorthstar LabsEnterprise Software · Seed · Toronto
Global Raiseboard
Canada Raiseboard
Accelerator Cohort
Investor Portfolio
Industry Board
Conference Board
Global Raiseboard Search companies
Lumina HealthHealth Technology · Seed · Toronto
$2.5M soughtActively raising
Northstar LabsEnterprise SaaS · Seed · New York
$1.8M soughtActively raising
Fieldworks AIClimate Technology · Pre-Seed · Vancouver
$900K soughtActively raising
LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS. GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

Connect what is happening locally to intelligence that travels globally.

SELECTED ECOSYSTEM · ILLUSTRATIVEToronto

Startups, investors, programs, and ecosystem partners connected through a shared classification layer.

Explore network
● Startups● Investors● Programs● Ecosystem partners
SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE. PARTICIPANT-SPECIFIC VALUE.

Who benefits from the intelligence layer?

01Founders

Readiness, visibility, fundraising infrastructure

02Investors

Deal discovery, diligence, benchmarking, monitoring

03Accelerators

Applications, evaluation, cohorts, reporting

04Venture funds

Pipeline intelligence, memos, portfolios, valuations

05Governments

Ecosystem measurement and policy intelligence

06Corporations

Innovation scouting and market intelligence

07Family offices

Structured opportunities and decision support

08Communities

Directories, Raiseboards, and connectivity