Startup valuation and pre-diligence checks — vc-scan
The Podium
which idea more than one company is chasing17 Jul – 29 Sept
AI agents doing the work
Onyx, Ema, Freehand, BUSINESSNEXT, Arrakis, Natural, Eagle Cloud, Zeliq, Primo, 50skills, Granite, Kontext, Itoflow, Aisot Technologies
$415.4m reported
Chips built for AI
Firmus, OLIX, Etched, Xsight Labs, EUCLYD, Callosum, DeepX, Velatir, Solinide, Embedd, HexSeed Technology, Groq
$4.1bn reported
Grid & energy storage
Antora, Nexeon, Amber, Ore Energy, Yuma Energy, Certain Energy, Octave.energy, Boldr, Metris Energy, Rebaba, Furo, AcouBatt
$864.7m reported
The Intake
who raised · what they're building- Other B2B Software3521%$481.6m
- Fintech1911%$729m
- Energy1710%$321m
- Health Tech & Medtech117%$241.1m
- AI106%$15.8bn
- 29 SeptANote Music€2m(reported)
Marketplace where people buy and sell stakes in music royalties, turning a back catalogue into something ordinary investors can hold.
- 29 SeptIPercept$16.5m(reported)
Monitors the condition of factory machinery so wear and faults show up before a breakdown stops the production line.
- 29 SeptMarble€6.5m(reported)
Open-source software that banks and fintechs run to spot fraudulent transactions and meet anti-money-laundering rules, set up without writing code.
The Diligence Desk
AI, robots, energy, space: one supply chain, four cheques
The four sectors everyone is excited about turn out to be one supply chain. Most of the money in them was four cheques.
read it→We counted every new US venture fund filing for three months. Most of them are not funds.
A new parent company appears above a startup, then a round is announced. What that pattern usually means.
UK directors and major shareholders now have to prove who they are. Do it before you raise, not mid-deal.
Your deck says four founders. The public register says five owners. That gap stops the conversation.
A loan you already repaid can sit on the public record for years. Until you clear it, investors count it.
Everything above came out of a free public record.
The same check runs on your company in about a minute — overdue filings, charges still on the register, an ownership record that doesn't match your deck. Better you see it first.
run it on your own company→