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About
Great companies come from everywhere — every background, every city, every path. When the right capital reaches the right founders, the world gets the cures, infrastructure, and tools the next generation needs. That matching shouldn't depend on who you know. That's what we're building.
The Founders
We're not developers by training. We didn't go to Stanford or come from VC families. We're two first-generation immigrant founders in Melbourne — building an AI platform from scratch, without a traditional tech background, without inherited networks, and without the playbook that gets handed to people who already know the right people. We built NUVC with AI tools, brilliant advisors, and the collective wisdom of 184 Wade alumni who taught us how venture actually works.
We built the platform we needed because it didn't exist. The tools that help founders raise capital shouldn't only work for people who already have the network. NUVC is inclusive by design — not as a feature, but as a founding principle.
Tick Jiang, Founder, CEO & CTO — leads engineering, AI architecture, and product. CQF-certified quantitative finance professional who learnt AI while breastfeeding in 2019. Member of Victoria's Multicultural Tech & Innovation Advisory Group. Experienced private deal maker. 340,000 lines of code, 23 AI agent team members, 88 backend services — all built with Claude Code, Cursor, and v0. Wade Institute Entrepreneur in Residence.
Duan Tianyi, Co-Founder & Creative Director — top-tier brand expert across China and Australia, ex-founder, and the creative force behind everything you see. Duan shapes the brand, the visual language, and the experience that makes complex intelligence feel intuitive. Every pixel was designed in Figma before a single line of code was written.
Jenks Guo, Advisor — frontend architecture and AI agentic orchestration. Jenks's guidance on how to structure multi-agent systems and build production-grade frontends turned ambitious ideas into working software.
The idea started from frustration: brilliant founders missing meetings not because they weren't good enough, but because the matching layer between them and their investors was broken. Emerging investors drowning in 100 decks with no systematic way to find signal.
So we built the thing we wished existed. A platform that gives both sides of the table the same lens — engineered for depth, designed for clarity, safeguarded by AI agents whose job is to protect the people we serve.
The unicorns of the next decade are being built right now. Most will never reach the investors who would have backed them. We're fixing that.
Principles
Every score is calibrated against 610+ labeled examples including 172 real VC deal memos and 85 known outcomes from SpaceX to Theranos. We don't inflate numbers to feel good. A 4.2 means you're not ready — and we tell you exactly why.
23 AI agents across 8 teams and 13 intelligence layers extract, verify, score, match, benchmark, research, and generate investment intelligence. Humans set the direction, make the calls, and hold the relationships.
A first-time founder in regional Australia gets the same depth of analysis as a well-networked repeat founder in San Francisco. Investors get AI-powered deal screening. The information asymmetry that plagues fundraising doesn't need to exist — and neither does the network advantage.
Every statistic on this platform is verifiable. No fake testimonials, no inflated metrics. Trust is the product.
Responsible AI
Our AI never uses founder gender, ethnicity, age, location, or educational prestige as scoring inputs. A first-time founder from Melbourne is scored on the same merits as a repeat founder from Stanford. The deck speaks for itself.
Every score has a traceable reasoning chain — which data was used, how each lens was weighted, and what the AI could not verify. No black-box decisions.
Every founder can appeal a score and request human review. Scores above 9.5 or below 1.0 require human review before being shown.
Automated bias detection runs monthly across all scored decks — checking for gender bias, stage bias, geographic bias, and score clustering. If patterns emerge that disadvantage any group, we recalibrate. The system earns fairness — it doesn't assume it.
If data is sparse, confidence says so. We never inflate certainty. A low-confidence score is labelled as directional, not definitive.
We track whether scores predict actual funding outcomes. If they don't, we recalibrate. The model earns trust — it doesn't assume it.
Journey
Idea born — frustrated by the fundraising black box
First prototype — GPT-4 scores a pitch deck. First AI agent goes live
Screened 600+ Startmate applicants in 4 hours — proved the model works at scale
70+ VC GP meetings, 50+ LP meetings — researched mandates, thesis, and how investors actually make decisions
Piloted with 47 VC users — learned what investors need vs what we assumed
NuScore v1 — 7-dimension scoring calibrated on 610+ real VC investment memos
8 pipeline agents operational + 8,900+ verified investors with vector embeddings
Public launch — nuvc.ai goes live. Zero employees. Full AI agent workforce
23 named AI agents across 8 autonomous teams — engineering, product, design, intelligence, growth, data ops, R&D, and user research. Investor portal for emerging VCs and family offices
340K lines of code. 88 services. 212 migrations. Two humans. 23 AI agents in 8 teams. Zero employees
2
Human founders
23
AI agent team members
340K
Lines of code
0
Employees
88
Backend services
212
Database migrations
85
Frontend pages
8,900+
Verified investors
23 autonomous AI agents organised into 8 teams — each with a name, a role, and real responsibilities. Eight team leads orchestrate the work. Two humans set the direction. Together they research, analyse, score, match, design, and ship.
Every agent operates under strict governance from the Arendt intelligence layer — fairness, bias detection, and ethical guardrails are built into every decision.
Tech Lead · Engineering
“A great team ships what matters — nothing more, nothing less.”
Frontend Engineer · Engineering
“The best interfaces disappear. You just get things done.”
Backend Engineer · Engineering
“The load is heavy, but the code is steady.”
API Platform · Engineering
“The bridge between systems, always ready.”
Automation Engineer · Engineering
“If a human does it twice, a machine should do it forever.”
Product Lead · Product
“Strategy is choosing what not to build.”
Founder PM · Product
“Not here to fit in. Here to change the game.”
Design Lead · Design & UX
“Good design is invisible. Great design is unforgettable.”
UX Designer · Design & UX
“Every pixel earns its place.”
AI Lead · Intelligence
“On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident is the model?”
Data Scientist · Intelligence
“Every feature is a hypothesis. Every model is a test.”
Matching Engineer · Intelligence
“The right connection at the right moment changes everything.”
Insights Analyst · Intelligence
“The signal is always there. You just have to know where to look.”
Growth Lead · Growth
“What you don't know can become your greatest strength.”
Content Strategist · Growth
“Great content is a point of view backed by evidence.”
Analytics Engineer · Growth
“You can't improve what you don't measure.”
Data Ops Lead · Data Ops
“Every record has a story waiting to be found.”
Investor Discoverer · Data Ops
“The best investors are the ones nobody else has found yet.”
Investor Enricher · Data Ops
“Raw data becomes intelligence with the right lens.”
Ecosystem Mapper · Data Ops
“The ecosystem is the context. Map it and everything else follows.”
Research Lead · R&D & Publications
“Publish the research nobody else will do.”
Research Writer · R&D & Publications
“A finding without a story reaches nobody.”
User Research Lead · User Research
“Listen first. Build second.”
Two humans. Eight teams. Twenty-three agents.
Tick Jiang
Founder, CEO & CTO
Duan Tianyi
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Engineering
Reiko (Lead)
Sergio (Frontend)
Sam (Backend)
Atlas (API)
Flux (Automation)
Product
Nova (Lead)
Aria (Founder PM)
Design & UX
Lux (Lead)
Pixel (UX)
Intelligence
Elle (Lead)
Sage (Data Sci)
Link (Matching)
Iris (Insights)
Growth
Sara (Lead)
Quill (Content)
Metric (Analytics)
Data Ops
Scout (Lead)
Radar (Discovery)
Prism (Enrichment)
Compass (Ecosystem)
R&D
Minerva (Lead)
Clio (Writer)
User Research
Echo (Lead)
2
Humans
23
AI Agents
8
Teams
0
Employees
Every article is researched, drafted, and fact-checked by specialised agent teams
R&D + Intelligence
Research Lead + Research Writer + AI Lead + Data Scientist + Insights Analyst
Original research, scoring analysis, signal detection, venture math, ecosystem intelligence
3 published articles
Product + Growth
Product Lead + Growth Lead + Content Strategist + Analytics Engineer
Investor directories, market intelligence, fund guides, product announcements
8 published articles
Engineering
AI Lead + API Platform + Backend + Automation
AI product features, agent architecture, technical deep-dives, API guides
4 published articles
Tick Jiang
Founder, CEO & CTO
Tactical guides, founder stories, pitch playbooks — personal perspective from building NUVC as a human-led AI-first company
10 published articles
Every agent has specialised skills, persistent memory, and a personality shaped by the values we care about.
Two humans lead. Twenty-three agents serve across eight autonomous teams.
AI-first doesn't mean humans last. It means the right intelligence reaches the right people — faster, fairer, and with safeguards built in.
Acknowledgements
Where It Started
NUVC wouldn't exist without the Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship at the University of Melbourne. Over 184 Wade alumni — the Waders — shared their hard-won insights on VC process, deal systems, conviction frameworks, and what actually moves capital. That collective knowledge is baked into every scoring lens, every matching algorithm, and every intelligence layer on this platform.
Special thanks to the VCCatalyst programme alumni, teachers, and mentors who gave us direct access to how investors think — not the textbook version, but the real version. The pattern recognition, the conviction calls, the edge cases. That's what makes NUVC different from a generic AI wrapper.
Programs & Ecosystem
We're grateful to the programs that believed in NUVC early: AirTree Ventures Explorer Program — one of Australia's leading VCs opening their network to emerging founders. Startmate First Believers — the community that backs founders before anyone else will. Melbourne Connect — the innovation precinct where ideas meet infrastructure. The Startup Network — connecting Melbourne's founders when it matters most. LaunchVic — Victoria's startup agency, backing the ecosystem that backed us. Cambridge & Oxford Alumni Society Australia — connecting us to a global network of founders, investors, and advisors.
Advisors
Jenks Guo — frontend architecture and AI agentic orchestration. Jenks showed us how to structure multi-agent systems that work in production — the difference between an AI demo and an AI product people trust with real decisions.
We're also grateful to an advisor from OpenAI who provided early guidance on AI system design and production-grade LLM orchestration — insights that shaped how NUVC's scoring and intelligence agents think.
The VC Community
Deeply grateful to the Australian VC and investment community who gave us their time, feedback, and belief — including AirTree Ventures, Giant Leap, Rampersand, F5 Collective, Cornwalls Capital, Klumi Ventures, Tractor Ventures, Scale Investors, and Wolvies Ventures. Your openness to an AI-native approach to deal intelligence made this possible.
To every founder who uploaded a deck, every investor who gave feedback, every Wade alumnus who shared their VC war stories, and every mentor who took the call — this platform is built from what you taught us. Thank you.
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NUVC Pty Ltd (ABN 80 652 527 663) · Melbourne, Australia