VC-style score & tier
A stage-adjusted 0–100 Founder Score with a letter tier and the weighting behind it shown openly.
The platform
An investment committee
An investment committee
that runs on your data.
Apex Synthesis decomposes venture evaluation into six specialised agents, each with its own tools, sources and rubric. They analyse independently, disagree explicitly, and resolve into one memo — with every conclusion traceable to the document that produced it.
6specialised agents per run
0evaluated signals
9scored dimensions
<4 minmedian run time
Step 01 — Ingestion
Bring what you already have.
No re-formatting, no template to fill in. Apex Synthesis parses the artefacts your company already produced and builds a structured company graph from them.
- Pitch decks — PDF, Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides links.
- Financial models — Excel and Sheets, including multi-tab driver models.
- Metrics exports — Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Mixpanel, or a plain CSV.
- Product surface — your website, docs, changelog and demo video.
- Team & cap table — founder bios, org shape, ownership and option pool.
Workspace · Sources
EncryptedPDFSeed_Deck_v11.pdf — 18 slides parsedIndexed
XLSXModel_2026_Base.xlsx — 6 tabs, 214 driversIndexed
APIStripe — 26 months of revenue, 412 accountsSynced
CSVretention_cohorts.csv — 26 monthly cohortsIndexed
WEBnorthbeam.io — positioning, pricing, changelogCrawled
DOCCap_Table.xlsx — pending founder approvalReview
Step 02 — Analysis
Six perspectives, deliberately in conflict.
A single model asked to "evaluate this startup" produces a confident average. Specialised agents produce disagreement — and disagreement is where the real diligence questions live.
Each agent runs against its own rubric with its own retrieval scope. When the Market agent's bottom-up TAM contradicts the deck's top-down claim, that conflict is surfaced to you rather than smoothed over. The Venture Partner agent resolves the remainder and states its confidence explicitly.
Agent conflict log
2 unresolvedConflict 01 · Market sizing
Deck claims $18B TAM (top-down, industry report).
Market agent computes $4.1B serviceable, bottom-up from
43,000 addressable accounts × realistic ACV.
Resolution: Market agent's figure adopted. Report recommends restating slide 4 — a defensible $4.1B reads better to a partner than an indefensible $18B.
Conflict 02 · Growth quality
Growth agent flags rising blended CAC across three quarters.
Financial agent notes gross margin expansion offsets it at current scale.
Resolution: Escalated to founder. Both readings included in the memo with the sensitivity that separates them.
Step 03 — The output
The Investment Readiness Report
Structured like an internal partner memo, because that's the document that actually decides whether you get funded.
Partner memo · Northbeam Labs
FinalRecommendation
Proceed to partner meeting. Conviction: moderate-high. Suggested entry: $2.5M on $14M post, contingent on the GTM remediation below.
Thesis in one line
Northbeam turns supply-chain exhaust data into a live risk score that mid-market manufacturers currently buy as a $180k consulting engagement — sold as $2.4k/month software with a data advantage that compounds per account.
Why this could work
Founder–market fit is unusually strong: eleven years operating the exact workflow being replaced. Gross margin of 74% is above stage median. Net revenue retention of 118% across 26 cohorts indicates the product deepens rather than churns.
Why this could fail
CAC payback of 19 months against a 14-month stage benchmark, with blended CAC rising three quarters consecutively. Concentration risk: top three accounts are 31% of ARR. Two funded entrants since Q1.
What would change our mind
CAC payback under 14 months for two consecutive quarters; largest-account concentration below 20%; one reference design partner in a second vertical.
Every report contains
Ranked strengths & risks
Ordered by materiality to a funding decision, not by how easy they are to fix.
Valuation benchmarks
Comparable rounds by stage, sector and geography, with the multiple range they cleared at.
Prioritised remediation plan
The specific work that moves the score most, with estimated point impact per item.
Investor-fit shortlist
Funds whose stated thesis, cheque size and recent activity actually match your company.
Evidence trail
Every claim links to the slide, cell or data point it came from. Nothing is asserted without a source.
Where it sits
Not a deck tool. Not a CRM.
Apex Synthesis occupies the space between "make my slides prettier" and "manage the round I'm already running" — the part where you find out whether you should be raising at all.
| Capability | Deck tools | Startup CRMs | Advisors | Apex Synthesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structured VC-style evaluation | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Financial model stress-testing | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Result in minutes, not weeks | Yes | Yes | — | Yes |
| Consistent rubric across companies | — | — | — | Yes |
| Continuously updated score | — | — | — | Yes |
| Thesis-matched investor shortlist | — | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| Evidence-linked conclusions | — | — | — | Yes |
| Cost at seed stage | $$ | $$ | $$$$ | $ |
Security & governance
You are handing us your most sensitive documents.
We treat that accordingly. Here is exactly what happens to your data.
Encrypted end to end
TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest. Documents are stored in per-workspace isolated buckets with scoped keys.
Never used for training
Your documents, metrics and reports are excluded from all model training — ours and our providers'. Contractually, not just as policy.
SOC 2 Type II controls
Access logging, least-privilege roles, quarterly penetration testing and an audited change-management process.
Real deletion
Delete a workspace and every document, embedding, derived artefact and cached report is purged within 30 days. Verifiable on request.
Regional data residency
Choose EU, UK, US or India residency at workspace creation. Enterprise plans support single-tenant deployment.
You control disclosure
Nothing is visible to any investor until you publish a snapshot and select recipients. Access is revocable at any moment.
See it run on your own company.
Bring a deck and a model. We'll show you the full pipeline end to end — including the parts you'd rather nobody noticed.