INVESTMENT SCREENING FOR ACTIVE INVESTORS
See the opportunity clearly before you go deeper.
DueCap turns a startup's pitch deck, financial information, and supporting documents into a concise Investment Screening Brief - so you can see what is known, what remains unresolved, and what deserves a closer look before the next founder conversation.
No scores. No investment recommendations. No replacement for investor judgment.
THE DECISION BEFORE DUE DILIGENCE
The first question is not “Is this a good company?”
It is: “Does this opportunity deserve more of my time?”
Early-stage opportunities often arrive as a mixture of narrative, partial financials, assumptions, and unanswered questions. Before committing to deeper diligence, investors need a fast way to organize the evidence and identify what matters next.
A structured first review.
Not another layer of noise.
DueCap reviews the materials already available and organizes the opportunity into one decision-ready view. The goal is not to tell you whether to invest. The goal is to help you enter the next conversation knowing where the business looks coherent, where the evidence is thin, and which questions could change your view.
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Investment Screening Brief
A concise, evidence-based view of the company: business model, financial snapshot, key business signals, key financial signals, inconsistencies, assumptions, and missing information.
02
Questions Before Investing
A prioritized set of questions that emerge from the documents - focused on issues that deserve clarification before you spend more time or move toward deeper diligence.
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Founder Interview Guide
A practical agenda for the next founder conversation, turning the open questions into a focused discussion rather than another general pitch meeting.
WHY IT EXISTS
Spend less time extracting information. Spend more time evaluating the business.
Without a structured first review
Documents arrive in different formats. Important gaps hide inside the detail. Founder narratives and financial assumptions are difficult to compare. The next meeting becomes broad instead of diagnostic.
With a DueCap Brief
The opportunity is organized around the evidence. Known facts are separated from assumptions. Missing information is explicit. The next questions are prioritized before the conversation begins.
INSIDE THE DUECAP BRIEF
One clear view of the opportunity.
The exact structure adapts to the materials available, but the review is built around the same practical questions.
Executive Snapshot
What the company is, where it stands, and what matters immediately.
Business Overview
Customer, product, market, business model, traction, and operating context.
Financial Snapshot
Revenue, margins, burn, runway, concentration, projections, and notable assumptions.
Key Business Signals
Patterns that strengthen or weaken the investment case based on available evidence.
Missing Information
What cannot yet be concluded - and which missing items could materially change the Missing Information view.
How it Works
From documents to a better first conversation.
Send the materials
Share the pitch deck, financial statements, and any supporting documents already available.
DueCap reviews the opportunity
We organize the evidence, identify key signals and gaps, and prepare the Investment Screening Brief.
Review before the next meeting
Use the brief, prioritized questions and interview guide to decide what deserves attention next.
Who it's for
Built for investors who evaluate early-stage companies regularly.
DueCap is most useful when the opportunity is interesting enough to warrant attention, but not yet clear enough to justify a full diligence process.
Angel Investors
Syndicates
Solo GP
Family Offices
Micro VC Funds
Founder-Investors
Whether you review one opportunity a month or many every week, the Investment Screening Brief helps you make better decisions with less guesswork and more clarity.
WHAT DUECAP IS - AND IS NOT
Structured judgment support. Investor judgment stays with the investor.
DueCap does not score companies, issue investment recommendations, or present a screening brief as full due diligence. It is designed to improve the quality of the first serious review: to make the evidence easier to see, the gaps harder to ignore, and the next questions more useful.
Example output
A sample of what you'll receive in an investment Screening Brief.
Confidential by design
Your materials and information are always kept strictly concental ane never snared with unire parties.
Built on the Existing DueCap Methodology
Ongoing Screening Desk applies the same structured DueCap methodology used in our individual Investment Screening Briefs across a recurring flow of opportunities.
Have an opportunity worth a closer look?
Send the materials you already have. DueCap will turn them into a focused first review for your next decision.
About DueCap
Built around a simple idea: clarity should come earlier.
Investors should spend less time extracting information from documents and more time evaluating businesses, testing assumptions, and having meaningful conversations with founders. DueCap is building a disciplined first step between receiving an opportunity and committing to deeper diligence.
The methodology is informed by operating experience, company building, financial review, business diagnostics, and the recurring patterns that appear when a business story, its economics, and its execution do not fully align.
DueCap
Screening support for investors. Clarity before capital
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