Startup intelligence and venture capital insights.
How the frameworks are built, what verification actually catches, and what investors read before they read your deck.
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5 places to find early-stage startups before they raise.
Trade registries, patent offices, accelerator cohorts, university spin-off lists and grant databases: where young companies leave public traces long before a funding round, and how to search them.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 3 min read
Man versus machine: 150 startups, scored by analysts and by Kuanta.
An independent RSM study compared a human jury and Kuanta on 150 startups, then tracked funding and survival. What it found, and what it means for how you evaluate startups.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 4 min read
The questions investors ask in a pitch, and how to answer them.
Investors ask two kinds of questions in a pitch: growth and risk. What a study of nearly 2,000 investor questions found, and how to answer each kind.
Kuanta Founder Advisory - · 5 min read
Fewest deals in six years: why every startup pick now gets cross-examined.
European VC money is up while deal count is at a six-year low. What that means for every investment decision, and three tests any pick now has to pass.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 5 min read
No revenue at 18 months: why healthtech looks broken on a SaaS scorecard.
Why SaaS benchmarks misjudge healthtech startups: regulatory timelines, opposite margin curves, and the case for sector-specific scoring frameworks.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 5 min read
18 results, zero matches: what keyword search misses in a startup database.
Databases classify startups by keyword tags set once and rarely updated. Why that misses companies that pivot, and how classifying by meaning finds them.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 4 min read
What investors actually read in your pitch deck (and the slide they skip).
Where investors actually spend their four minutes on a pitch deck: unit economics, retention and the team, and why the big market slide gets skipped.
Kuanta Founder Advisory - · 4 min read
The best startup scouting platforms in 2026, compared.
An honest 2026 comparison of startup scouting platforms: Kuanta, Crunchbase, PitchBook, Dealroom, Tracxn and CB Insights, by database, search and coverage.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 5 min read
200 startups in, 4 investments out: why scouting and evaluation stopped keeping pace.
Why startup scouting and evaluation stopped keeping pace with the market: keyword search misses companies, one scorecard fits nobody, and claims go unchecked.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 4 min read
Pattern matching has a second name: bias.
Pattern matching in venture capital overlaps with recency and affinity bias. What the research says, and how a structured second read reduces blind spots.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 4 min read
The top AI startup evaluation and due diligence tools in 2026.
A 2026 comparison of AI startup evaluation and due diligence tools: generic LLMs, data platforms and agentic engines like Kuanta, on verification and citations.
Kuanta Intelligence Team - · 5 min read
Why one prompt cannot evaluate a startup (and what specialist agents do instead).
Why one LLM prompt cannot evaluate a startup, and how agentic evaluation splits due diligence over specialist agents so each claim gets a source or a flag.
Kuanta Engineering Team
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