Venture funds
Screen inbound at volume without losing signal. Encode your thesis as a rubric so every associate applies the same bar, and keep an auditable record of why each pass happened.
For investors & programmes
Two thousand decks.
Two thousand decks.
One consistent read.
Apex Synthesis gives every company in your pipeline the same structured evaluation — so partner time goes to judgement instead of triage, and the good business with the bad deck stops falling through the gap.
Enterprise licences · SSO & audit logs · Single-tenant deployment available
88Northbeam Labs — Seed · Supply chain
74% GM · 118% NRR · concentration riskAdvance
74% GM · 118% NRR · concentration riskAdvance
81Ledgerline — Seed · Fintech infra
Strong wedge · thin team · fast learningAdvance
Strong wedge · thin team · fast learningAdvance
67Trellis Bio — Pre-seed · Ag-bio
Exceptional FMF · 24-month proof cycleWatch
Exceptional FMF · 24-month proof cycleWatch
54Cassia Retail — Seed · Commerce
Crowded category · undifferentiated wedgeHold
Crowded category · undifferentiated wedgeHold
39Vantis Fleet — Seed · Logistics
Negative contribution margin at scalePass
Negative contribution margin at scalePass
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214 companies · same rubric · 11 flagged for partner review
~9 hrs/week savedper investment professional
The screening problem
The funnel where good companies die.
Most passes happen in the first ninety seconds, on a document written by whoever on the founding team was best at slides. Apex Synthesis replaces that filter with a consistent one.
Inbound arrives
Decks land from forms, referrals, events and warm intros — in six formats, with no comparable structure.
Automated evaluation
Each company is run through the same six-agent pipeline and returned as a standardised report within minutes.
Ranked pipeline
Sort and filter on any dimension. Set thresholds that auto-flag, auto-hold or auto-decline with a written reason.
Partner judgement
Your team spends its hours on the shortlist, with a first-pass diligence pack already drafted.
Capabilities
Deal intelligence, not another inbox.
- Standardised investment reports for every company, using your fund's weighting or ours.
- Automated first-pass diligence — claims extracted, cross-checked and linked to source.
- Comparison dashboards across any cohort, sector or vintage.
- Founder credibility analysis — domain depth and team shape against the problem.
- Custom thesis rubrics — encode what your partnership actually cares about.
- Portfolio monitoring — readiness drift across holdings, flagged before the board deck.
- Integrations — Affinity, Airtable, Notion, Slack, and a REST API for everything else.
Diligence pack · Ledgerline
Auto-draftedClaims verified
14 of 17 quantitative claims in the deck reconcile to source documents. Three do not — see exceptions.
Exceptions
· "40% MoM growth" — true for two months of an eleven-month series; trailing six-month average is 9%.
· "Zero churn" — measured on logos under a three-month contract floor.
· "$2.1M ARR" — includes $340k of annualised pilot revenue not yet contracted.
Open questions for the partner call
· What does retention look like past the contract floor?
· Which pilots convert, on what historical rate?
· Who owns the compliance relationship if the sponsor bank changes?
Who uses it
Different mandates. Same need for consistency.
Accelerators & incubators
Score applications against the same rubric you'll graduate them on. Track every company's readiness weekly, route mentors to the weakest dimension, and prove programme impact with numbers.
Family offices
Bring venture-grade rigour to direct investments without building a venture team. Consistent evaluation, clear risk framing, and reporting your principals can actually read.
Angel networks & syndicates
Give every member the same briefing document. Reduce the diligence burden on volunteers and make syndicate decisions on evidence rather than the loudest voice on the call.
Universities & research commercialisation
Assess spin-out readiness, allocate translation funding on defensible criteria, and report programme outcomes to boards and funders with consistent metrics.
Innovation agencies & public funds
Evaluate grant applications at scale with an auditable rubric, monitor the health of a national or regional ecosystem, and identify high-potential companies early.
0companies screened in a typical quarter, per fund
0 hrssaved per investment professional, per week
0%of decisions logged with a written, sourced rationale
0×more companies reaching a second look
Based on aggregated activity across participating funds and programmes.
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It hasn't replaced judgement. It's replaced the two hours before judgement — the part where an associate reads a deck twice and writes a summary nobody disagrees with. We now start every pipeline meeting from the same page, literally.
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Daniel OkoyeGeneral Partner, Meridian Ventures
Deployment
Live in a week, not a quarter.
Enterprise onboarding is deliberately light. Most funds are screening real inbound within five working days.
- Day 1–2 — workspace provisioned, SSO configured, historical pipeline imported.
- Day 3–4 — thesis rubric calibrated against twenty past decisions you already made.
- Day 5 — inbound routing live; reports land in Affinity and Slack automatically.
- Ongoing — a named solutions lead, quarterly rubric review, priority support.
Calibrate it against your own past decisions.
Send us twenty companies you passed on and twenty you funded. We'll show you where the rubric agrees with your partnership — and where it doesn't.