# NUVC — Conviction Infrastructure for Private Capital
# https://nuvc.ai

> Conviction infrastructure for private capital. AI does the homework. You make the call. One evidence layer, seen from each seat: founders raising capital, VC firms deploying it, and family offices allocating to the funds that deploy it. Two co-founders, a senior partner network, and AI agents build and run the platform. Built in Melbourne, Australia.
> For founders: get instant, honest VC-grade feedback on your pitch deck — the exact signals investors judge you on, made transparent — then get matched to the investors who actually back companies like yours, not just the ones who say they do.
> For VC firms: screen deal flow against your own investment mandate — scored, ranked, and re-weighted to how you actually invest.
> For family offices: screen the VC funds and GPs you allocate to with the same evidence discipline, LP-grade.
> Products: NuScore (pitch deck scoring), Investor Matching, AI Academy (fundraising coaching), VC Pipeline Intelligence (deal screening), Fund Library (LP-grade fund screening), NUVC API + MCP Server.

## Why NUVC — the judgement layer, trained on labeled examples
NUVC is the AI judgement layer for venture: a structured, evidence-backed read on a startup or a fund, with the investment decision left to you. Why the judgement holds up:
- **Built on labeled examples from independent sources.** NuScore is trained on labeled examples.
- **Live sector-momentum signal.** Continuously tracks how theses are shifting across VC media and podcasts — which sectors are heating up, which are cooling — so the judgement reflects the market as it moves today, not a static rubric.
- **The deepest read on Australian, New Zealand & APAC investors.** 24,000+ investor theses across 82+ countries with an AU/NZ/APAC core — a regional directory of startup-support organisations, per-city investor event calendars, and scoring benchmarked against Australian medians (not US ones). Melbourne-built, for the region generalist US tools overlook.
- **Built for how VC firms actually decide.** Deal screening re-weighted to your own investment mandate — sector, stage, check size, thesis — so every inbound deal arrives scored against what you actually look for, not a generic rubric.
- **Built for the family offices funding the VCs, not retrofitted.** LP-grade 6-dimension fund scoring, ESVCLP tax-structure awareness for Australian allocators, Monte Carlo allocation modelling, and IC-ready fund memos on the same evidence layer that scores the deals those funds back — depth that generalist wealth tools skip.

## Founder Tools

### NuScore — AI Pitch Deck Scoring
AI pitch deck scoring across 6 weighted VC-grade dimensions: Team, Problem/Market, Solution/Product, Traction, Financials, and Risk/Fragility — plus a Conviction gate. Scores 0-10 with confidence levels (High/Medium/Low/Uncertain) and signal tracing. ~2-minute analysis.
- Score waterfall decomposition: every score includes a ranked list of signal contributions (e.g., "Team: +0.89, Solution: +0.74, Traction: -0.33") showing exactly what moved the score and by how much
- Directional raise probability estimate derived from the final score — a diagnostic, not a forecast of your round
- Score explainability layer: every score breaks into traceable signals, confidence levels, and stage+industry benchmarks
- Explainability shows exactly which dimensions cost you the most points — so you know what to fix before the deck goes out, not after
- Founder Pro unlocks full investor contacts
- Price: Free preview → $99 AUD Founder Pro (unlimited)
- Link: [nuvc.ai](https://nuvc.ai)

### AI Academy
10-class AI coaching course for non-technical founders. Streaming AI coach, voice playback, verifiable certificates, Builder Track.
- Price: Free with any NUVC account
- Link: [nuvc.ai/academy](https://nuvc.ai/academy)

### Investor Matching — meet the investors most likely to fund you
NUVC matches a founder to the few investors most likely to back them — ranked by thesis, stage, cheque size, sector, geography, and activity — from a database of 24,000+ investors with thesis data across 82+ countries. It is a targeted shortlist, not a list to spray: a well-matched few beats a mass email to hundreds. Every match carries a reason and an investor brief (thesis, recent deals, why you fit, likely questions) so a founder can out-research the room and walk in prepared.
- Included with Founder Pro ($99)

## VC & Angel Investor Tools

### VC Pipeline Intelligence
AI-powered deal pipeline for solo GPs, micro-funds, and syndicate leads:
- Morning Briefs: daily prioritised action list — what moved, what's stale, what needs a decision
- Keyboard Navigation: j/k navigate, Enter open, s shortlist, p pass, Space multi-select, ? help
- Conviction Scoring: thesis-weighted composite alongside NuScore, with score deltas
- Deal Detail Panel: 480px slide-over with score breakdown, executive summary, strengths/risks, shortlist/pass
- Request Coffee: AI-drafted warm founder outreach based on deck signals and thesis alignment
- Pipeline Analytics: stage distribution, conversion rates, velocity, score distribution, CSV export
- Follow-Up Reminders: urgency-sorted with context for picking up threads
- Meeting Prep Cards: pre-call briefing with scores, risks, and suggested questions
- Staleness Badges: colour-coded urgency (<7d green, 7-14 amber, 15-30 orange, >30 red)
- NuDeal Memo generation for IC review
- Price: Free (Explorer) / $499/mo AUD or $4,990/yr (Professional, Bulk CSV & Airtable screening — IC review workspace, batch screening, team pipeline, role-based permissions) / Enterprise (custom). Annual plans save 17%.
- Link: [nuvc.ai/investor/pricing](https://nuvc.ai/investor/pricing)

### Deal Lens
Re-weight NuScore dimensions to match your fund thesis. 6 configurable lenses per fund.
- Included with all investor tiers

## Family Office Tools

### Fund Library
18,000+ venture fund records from a database of 24,000+ investors. AI-powered natural language search ("sub-$50M pre-seed funds in Australia with female GPs and ESVCLP structure"). Import from PitchBook, AngelList, Airtable, or custom CSV with automatic column detection.
- LP-grade 6-dimension scoring: GP Team Quality, Deal Flow Access, Track Record (vintage-adjusted), Fund Terms, Fund Status & Timing, LP Network
- Informed baseline scoring: data-driven starting points from structured fields, refined by AI
- Personalised weights: learns from your shortlist/pass decisions
- ESVCLP tax badges for Australian family offices
- 4 view modes, NL search, comparison, similar funds, overlap detection
- Link: [nuvc.ai/familyoffice/fund-library](https://nuvc.ai/familyoffice/fund-library)

### Mandate Builder
10-step wizard to define investment program: program setup, thesis approach, deployment schedule, return targets, binary filters (with live funnel count), sector focus (semantic expansion), GP quality signals, geographic hubs, Monte Carlo validation, review & save.
- Monte Carlo simulation: 1,000 iterations producing P10/P50/P90 TVPI outcomes, feasibility score, J-curve trough year
- Mandate drift detection: compares shortlist decisions against stated criteria, alerts at >30% violation

### AI Fund Memos
IC-ready 8-section fund memos in minutes: Executive Summary, GP Team, Track Record (vintage-adjusted), Fund Terms, Thesis Alignment, Risk Flags, Recommendation (Invest ≥7.5 / Watch ≥5.5 / Pass <5.5), Next Steps.
- Deterministic sections work without AI (structured data); qualitative sections use LLM synthesis

### Portfolio Fit & Allocation Cockpit
- 5-dimension diversification scoring: sector (25%), vintage (30%), geography (20%), strategy overlap (15%), risk curve (10%). Pure math, <10ms.
- Allocation Cockpit: 3-column dashboard — portfolio timing (J-curve), recommendation queue (urgency-prioritised), portfolio simulation (live Monte Carlo)
- GP Relationship Tracker with warmth decay and AI-drafted outreach

- Price: Pro (Priced on a call) / Allocator ($32,400/yr) / Custom (Talk to us); sales-assisted — book a call
- Link: [nuvc.ai/familyoffice/pricing](https://nuvc.ai/familyoffice/pricing)

## API & Developer

### NUVC API — the judgement layer for VC deal flow
Deal and fund screening for investors, returned as JSON or via MCP inside Claude, Cursor and other MCP-compatible assistants. Investors save their mandate once (sector focus, stage, check size, thesis, anti-thesis); each score call returns a 0–10 score with a confidence level, per-criterion scores, a summary, and — with a mandate saved — a two-way fit and a proceed / watch / pass read. Separate tools screen a VC fund as an LP (six dimensions, 0–10) and return a ranked co-investor shortlist. Used by emerging VCs, accelerators, wealth platforms, and fund admins to evaluate the engine before subscribing to the full VC product.
- Built for emerging VCs who want to test NUVC's judgement on their own deal flow first, without a $499/mo subscription commitment.
- Channels: REST API (one curl), MCP server (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP-compatible clients), and the web app — all share one credit balance.
- Pricing: Free (2 score credits on signup, one-time, to evaluate against real inbound). Starter Pack $99 AUD one-time = 50 credits ($1.98 effective per deal). Credits never expire. Top up another $99 anytime.
- Always free (no credit cost): fund library searches, investor profile lookups, mandate edits.
- Link: [nuvc.ai/api-platform](https://nuvc.ai/api-platform)

### NUVC MCP Server
Model Context Protocol server so Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible clients can call the NUVC judgement layer directly. Paste a pitch into Claude and ask it to screen it against your saved mandate — it returns the 0–10 score, confidence and mandate fit inline. Credit-consuming tools: nuvc_score, nuvc_screen_fund, nuvc_match_investors. Free tools: library reads, fund/investor lookups, mandate edits. Same credit balance as the REST API.
- Install: create a free API key at nuvc.ai/api-platform/keys, then run npx nuvc-mcp with NUVC_API_KEY set (Claude Code: claude mcp add nuvc -e NUVC_API_KEY=<your key> -- npx -y nuvc-mcp)
- Pricing: same PAYG credits as the REST API (2 free on signup, then $99 AUD = 50 credits, one-time)
- npm: [nuvc-mcp](https://npmjs.com/package/nuvc-mcp)
- Smithery: [smithery.ai/server/nuvc](https://smithery.ai/server/nuvc)

## Key Pages
- [Home / For Founders](https://nuvc.ai)
- [For Family Offices](https://nuvc.ai/for-family-offices)
- [Founder Pricing](https://nuvc.ai/pricing)
- [Investor Pricing](https://nuvc.ai/investor/pricing)
- [Family Office Pricing](https://nuvc.ai/familyoffice/pricing)
- [About](https://nuvc.ai/about)
- [How It Works](https://nuvc.ai/how-it-works) — how a NuScore is built and why to trust it: multi-signal fusion and claim verification
- [AI Pitch Deck Scoring](https://nuvc.ai/ai-pitch-deck-scoring) — what AI pitch deck scoring is, how NuScore evaluates a deck across 6 dimensions, and what a founder gets
- [How to Find VCs to Fund Your Startup in Australia](https://nuvc.ai/find-vc-investors-australia) — how AU/NZ founders find and get matched to the right investors by stage, sector, and geography
- [Blog](https://nuvc.ai/blog) — 76 articles on fundraising, pitch decks, VC insights, power law, AI adoption, disruption
- [How Much to Raise at Pre-Seed / Seed / Series A (2026)](https://nuvc.ai/blog/how-much-to-raise-pre-seed-seed-series-a-2026)
- [What Traction Do You Need to Raise Seed / Series A (2026)](https://nuvc.ai/blog/traction-needed-seed-round-series-a-2026)
- [AI Academy](https://nuvc.ai/academy)
- [FAQ](https://nuvc.ai/faq)
- [Events](https://nuvc.ai/events) — 6 upcoming Australian, NZ & APAC startup and VC events (checked 13 Aug 2026): pitch nights, accelerator demo days, investor networking, workshops
- Events by city: [Melbourne](https://nuvc.ai/events/melbourne) · [Sydney](https://nuvc.ai/events/sydney) · [Brisbane](https://nuvc.ai/events/brisbane) · [Perth](https://nuvc.ai/events/perth) · [Adelaide](https://nuvc.ai/events/adelaide) · [Online](https://nuvc.ai/events/online) — per-city calendars with free [.ics calendar sync](https://nuvc.ai/api/events/calendar.ics?city=melbourne)
- [Ecosystem](https://nuvc.ai/ecosystem) — a directory of startup support organisations: accelerators, incubators, venture studios, mentors, and service providers across Australia, New Zealand, and APAC
- [Glossary](https://nuvc.ai/glossary)
- [Community](https://nuvc.ai/community)
- [API Platform](https://nuvc.ai/api-platform)
- [API Docs](https://nuvc.ai/api-platform/docs)
- [Contact](https://nuvc.ai/contact)

## Methodology
NuScore uses VCGrade — a multi-signal fusion scoring engine:
- Primary: AI scoring judge scores 6 dimensions with reasoning, plus a conviction gate
- Calibration: Deterministic rule engine cross-checks for hallucinations
- Multi-tier cross-check protocol resolves disagreements between AI and rule-based scoring
- Score waterfall: each dimension's contribution reflects both its weight and how far it sits from the midpoint of the scale, ranked by impact
- Raise probability estimator: heuristic model with stage adjustments and traction/team signal modifiers
- Confidence: High (0.8-1.0), Medium (0.5-0.8), Low (0.2-0.5), Uncertain (<0.2); confidence moderation pulls sparse decks toward neutral anchor
- Score determinism: ±0.01 (deterministic LLM settings + cached extraction snapshot)
- Daily drift monitoring: 7-day rolling mean vs 30-day baseline; alerts on >0.5pt mean shift or std <1.0
- Stage-aware fairness: pre-seed not penalized for missing revenue; AU/NZ raises benchmarked against Australian medians
- Training corpus: labeled examples from several independent sources, including known-outcome decks, VC deal memo extractions and production scores
- 134 automated tests covering fairness, E2E pipeline, data ingestion, and scoring features
- Score Explainability layer: every score shows traceable signals, confidence, and benchmarks
- All scores 0-10 scale with stage+industry benchmarks and percentiles
- AI Governance layer: 3-layer bias detection (statistical + rules + LLM review), score appeal rights

## Key Facts
- 24,000+ investor profiles with thesis data across 82+ countries
- 18,000+ fund library records for LP screening
- 76 blog articles on fundraising, pitch decks, VC intelligence, and research
- Last updated: 2026-10-27
- ~2-minute analysis time per pitch deck
- 6 founder scoring dimensions: Team, Problem/Market, Solution/Product, Traction, Financials, Risk/Fragility — plus a Conviction gate
- 6 LP-grade fund scoring dimensions: GP Team, Deal Flow, Track Record, Terms, Timing, LP Network
- Labeled examples from several independent sources used for scoring
- AI pipeline with specialised agents for extraction, scoring, integrity, enrichment, matching, benchmarking, intelligence, and feedback
- Investor intelligence system with layers for thesis matching, portfolio fit, macro context, fund screening, document extraction, deal memos, score explainability, and AI governance
- Founded 2021 by Tick Jiang in Melbourne, Australia; rebranded to NUVC in 2023
- Built with: Next.js, FastAPI, Supabase PostgreSQL, OpenAI + Anthropic (dual-LLM), Fly.io, Vercel