VC Due Diligence
Startup intelligence that keeps pace with your deal flow
Probe AI gives venture analysts the ability to research startups, founders, and markets in minutes. 16 parallel agents search the web and X/Twitter to build structured deal intelligence with cited sources.
The Problem
VC analysts evaluate hundreds of companies per year. Each requires background research on the founding team, market size, competitive landscape, product traction, and funding history. This research is typically assembled manually from Crunchbase, LinkedIn, news articles, X/Twitter, pitch decks, and industry reports—a process that takes 2-4 hours per company.
The bottleneck isn't access to information. It's the time required to aggregate, cross-reference, and synthesize it. Analysts end up doing shallow research on most deals and deep dives on only a handful, which means promising companies get overlooked and red flags go unnoticed.
Existing research tools don't capture the real-time signal that lives on X/Twitter—founder activity, customer feedback, competitor announcements, and industry commentary that often reveals more than polished press releases.
How Probe Helps
Comprehensive founder research
Probe searches across professional profiles, news mentions, prior company history, conference appearances, published writing, and X/Twitter activity. The structured report surfaces a founder's track record, public reputation, and any red flags—all with source citations for your investment memo.
Competitive landscape mapping
Multiple agents simultaneously research competitors, market positioning, funding rounds, product differentiation, and customer sentiment. The result is a structured competitive matrix you can drop directly into a deal memo or partner meeting deck.
Market sizing and trend analysis
Probe synthesizes data from industry reports, analyst commentary, news coverage, and social discussion to estimate market size and identify trends. Each claim is cited, so you can trace projections back to their original source.
Export-ready reports
Research output can be exported as PDF, Markdown, JSON, or CSV. The structured format—executive summary, key findings, sentiment analysis, and sources—maps directly to the sections of an investment memo.
Example Queries
Why Web + X/Twitter
Founder reputation and startup traction are increasingly visible on X/Twitter. Founders post product updates, engage with customers, share metrics, and build in public. Competitors announce features and pivots. Industry analysts share unfiltered takes that never make it into formal reports.
A VC research tool limited to the web misses this signal layer. Probe's dual-source approach captures both the polished narrative (web: press releases, funding announcements, company pages) and the unfiltered reality (X/Twitter: customer complaints, founder personality, competitive dynamics). The combination produces higher-fidelity deal intelligence.
Recommended Tier
Deep Research ($2) handles most startup evaluations effectively with 4 parallel agents and high reasoning. For high-stakes deal decisions or comprehensive competitive landscape analysis, Deep Research+ ($5) deploys all 16 agents for maximum coverage. Use Quick Research ($0.50) for rapid founder background checks or quick market context.
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New accounts receive $5 in free credits—enough to run a full Deep Research+ startup evaluation. No credit card required.