VenturePole

VenturePole is a Switzerland-based AI-powered investment platform that connects founders with investors while helping them become investment-ready through smart tools including machine learning-based risk ratings and valuation calculators. The platform is committed to closing the gender funding gap by supporting female founders in accessing venture capital, aiming to increase their share from 2.3% to 50%.

VenturePole's AI-powered investment platform helps founders get investment-ready and investors make higher returns. We are on a mission to help female founders raise equal venture capital money as men, from 2.3% to 50%. Our smart tools like our Investment Risk Rating uses unsupervised machine learning to predict startup survival; our Valuation Calculator presents different valuations using five popular methods; our Company Strength & Weakness Analysis highlights strength and weakness in team, market, product and business model; our diligence questionnaires optimize the most frequently asked questions by investors, covering team, company, product, financial, tech, market and legal. Our tools are unbiased and factor in a diversity surplus. We are the organizer of the Female Newcomer Founder Award. Our customers include HealthInc, the health tech accelerator of Startupbootcamp. We are a partner of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (largest business school in China), StartupMetrics (Swiss valuation and due diligence firm), EMRG (US-based incubator), Prepare4VC (US-based accelerator), Pitched (Swiss marketing firm), Badertscher (Swiss legal firm), IDA (US-based marketing platform). VenturePole is the winner of the FemBizSwiss Award, Wealth & Finance News's Ethical Finance Award, the Mozilla Builders Award, the European Commission investment accelerator InvestHorizon, the Swiss Stock Exchange F10 Fintech Accelerator, and the Swiss Bank PostFinance Innovation Co-work Award. We were also the finalist of the United Nations XPRIZE AI for Good Competition, the Startup Award of Canton Zug. We have partnered with the University of Zurich to develop an AI assistant for venture capital.