Startup valuation and pre-diligence checks — vc-scan
The Podium
which idea more than one company is chasing17 Jul – 1 Sept
Chips built for AI
Firmus, OLIX, Etched, Xsight Labs, Callosum, DeepX, Velatir, Solinide, Embedd, HexSeed Technology, Groq
$3.9bn reported
AI agents doing the work
Onyx, Freehand, BUSINESSNEXT, Arrakis, Natural, Itoflow, Aisot Technologies
$293m reported
Grid & energy storage
Antora, Nexeon, Ore Energy, Yuma Energy, Certain Energy, Boldr
$782m reported
The Intake
who raised · what they're building- Other B2B Software2315%$461.8m
- AI139%$3.8bn
- Energy117%$1.3bn
- Robotics96%$1.4bn
- Space53%$1.3bn
- 1 SeptAlteon$2.5m(reported)
Building uncrewed aircraft designed to stay in the air for long stretches without a pilot on board.
- 1 SeptGridsightAUD 36m(reported)
Software that finds spare capacity hiding in overloaded electricity distribution networks, so more solar and EV charging can connect without new wires.
- 1 SeptKepler Aerospace$8m(reported)
Building small satellites that fly themselves and watch the ground for surveillance customers.
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→