VC DEALFLOW SCREENING

The inbox never empties. Don't let a skim cost you the unicorn.

EvalLens gives every inbound deck the same structured first read, on one consistent bar, so the one that matters never gets waved through on a skim. Screen a full batch in an afternoon — the final call is always yours.

BY THE NUMBERS

What a screening batch looks like

  • 1bar — no drift between decks
  • 100%of inbound gets a real read, not a skim
  • 0decks taken at face value
  • 4–5 minmachine first-read per deck
  • WHY MANUAL SCREENING BREAKS

    Too much dealflow. Too little time to read it.

    At volume, breakout decks get skimmed. The bar drifts between analysts, notes scatter, and the screen gets harder to defend to your IC and LPs.

    A glass ‘manual review’ box breaking apart into problem blocks — too many decks, lost context, not enough time, different criteria, bias, fatigue, and hard to defend
  • Volume

    Inbound never stops

    More decks land each week than any partner can read line by line — and the queue never resets.

  • Partner time

    Partner time is the bottleneck

    The first few decks in the queue get a real read. The rest get a skim — and the breakout could be sitting further down the pile.

  • The bar

    The bar drifts

    One analyst leans on traction, another on team fit — run the same deck through twice and you can get two different calls.

  • Defensibility

    Hard to defend the call

    Ask why a deck died six months ago, and the honest answer is a shrug — not something you can bring to your IC or your LPs.

THE WHOLE LOOP, END TO END

How a single
screening runs

Set your bar once. EvalLens applies it to every deck and prepares what partners need to decide faster.

  1. 01

    Collect the dealflow

    Founders submit decks and you drop in inbound — everything lands in one place.

  2. 02

    Set your thesis bar

    Choose the scale, weights, and dimensions that match your fund's thesis.

  3. 03

    Run the machine pass

    EvalLens prepares a structured first read of every deck — about 4–5 minutes per deck after upload.

  4. 04

    See the ranked reports

    The whole batch lands in one leaderboard, each deck with its one-page screening memo — thesis, risks, gaps — ready before anyone opens a call.

  5. 05

    Score it with your own judgment

    Weigh what EvalLens surfaced against your own read of the deck, and set the score that counts. The call stays human, every time.

The whole screening as one rail: collect the dealflow, set your thesis bar, run the first read through the lens, rank the batch into a leaderboard, share the memos with partners, and a human sets the final score.
The fund review kit: a per-deck memo card (startup, system score, per-criterion scores, strengths, risks, missing data, IC questions, final score), plus a ranked shortlist and a shared 1–10 bar.
WHAT YOU GET

What the fund gets

By the first screen, you have a working picture of every deck — before anyone commits diligence time. Each screening memo is built the same way, so startups compare side by side.

  • A memo for every deck

  • A ranked shortlist

  • Questions for the IC

  • Risks and missing data

  • One screening bar

AI PREPARES, THE PARTNERS DECIDE

Not a black box. Not a partner replacement.

EvalLens prepares the analysis; it never makes the final call. It widens what your team can read closely — so the breakout gets the same first read as every warm intro.

  • AI prepares

    AI prepares the analysis

    EvalLens lays out the evidence, the risks, and the questions — then hands them to the partners who decide.

    AI prepares the analysis; a human sets the final score
  • One bar

    One bar for every deck

    Every deck runs through the same scoring logic — the outlier gets the same first read as the warm intro.

  • Defensible

    Every score is cited

    Scores trace to evidence in the deck — defensible to your IC and your LPs, not a gut call.

  • Proven

    Refined across hundreds of runs

    The scoring logic isn't a v0 experiment — it's been tuned on real dealflow, run after run.

  • Human

    You set the final score

    Control stays with the partners. The ranking runs on your call, not the AI's.

START

Run a pilot on your real dealflow

We screen a real batch of your inbound, prepare partner-ready memos, and show how EvalLens ranks your dealflow — while the call stays yours. About 4–5 minutes of machine first-read per deck after upload. Refined across hundreds of runs.