Evalyze
A tool that treats fundraising like a search problem: upload your pitch deck, get a score and feedback on it, and get matched against a database of over 10,000 investors instead of guessing who to cold-email.
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Description
Raising money is often a founder's first experience with a completely opaque process — nobody tells you which investors actually fund companies like yours, or whether your pitch deck is any good before you've already burned goodwill sending it to fifty people. Evalyze tries to make that process more like a matching algorithm than a guessing game.
Evalyze is a fundraising platform for early-stage founders that scores pitch decks against an 'Investor Readiness' rubric, analyzes the startup itself with an AI-based analyzer, and matches founders against a database of 10,000+ verified investors filtered by stage, sector, and growth metrics. The free Starter tier includes 3 analyses and 30 investor matches; the Pro tier ($20/month, or $120/year with a 50% annual discount) unlocks 10 analyses, access to the full 10K+ investor database, and two coaching calls; a custom-priced Managed tier adds a 500+ investor pipeline, weekly coaching, mock pitch sessions, and warm introductions. The company reports over 10,500 founders using the platform, including graduates of Y Combinator, Techstars, and Antler, and lists automated investor messaging and an AI fundraising CRM as upcoming features not yet shipped.
💬 Our review
The short version: Evalyze is a reasonable first stop for a founder who has no existing investor network and needs a starting list plus honest feedback on their deck, and the free tier is genuinely usable before you'd need to pay anything.
Against the traditional approach — cold-emailing investors found through LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and warm intros — Evalyze's structured matching and free deck scoring save real research time, especially for a first-time founder with a small network; its $20/month Pro tier is cheap relative to the money at stake in a raise, which makes it an easy try even if the investor matches turn out mediocre. Against FounderSuite, a more established fundraising CRM competitor, Evalyze leans more heavily on AI matching and scoring rather than pure pipeline/CRM tracking, which is either an advantage (less manual data entry) or a gap (less mature CRM features) depending on what a founder actually needs. The honest caveat: investor 'matching' from a database is not the same as a warm introduction, and the platform's own roadmap (automated messaging, AI CRM) shows some core capabilities are still being built — worth trying on the free tier before paying for Pro or Managed.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit (3 analyses, 30 matchs) ; Pro 20$/mois ou 120$/an (-50%) ; Managed sur devis
Pros
Score et feedback sur le pitch deck dès le tier gratuit
Base de 10 000+ investisseurs filtrables par stade/secteur
Tarif Pro abordable (20$/mois) vu les enjeux d'une levée
10 500+ fondateurs déjà utilisateurs, dont issus de YC/Techstars
Cons
Un match investisseur n'est pas une introduction chaude garantie
Fonctions clés (messagerie automatisée, CRM IA) encore en développement
Moins mature en CRM que des concurrents dédiés comme FounderSuite
Efficacité réelle du matching non vérifiée indépendamment