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Multi-round selection fast enough for an investor jury

An accelerator's calendar does not wait: applications, a screening round, partner interviews and a pitch day, often inside a few weeks, with investors as the jury and conflicts of interest that have to be declared before anyone scores.

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Who this is for

Three people, one call

Programme manager

Runs a tight round calendar, promotes the shortlist forward, and keeps the pitch day on schedule.

Investor or mentor juror

Declares a conflict where one exists, scores blind where it matters, and moves through a batch fast.

Founder applicant

Applies quickly, tracks which round they have reached, and sees the live pitch-day standing.

An investor jury scoring a shortlist around a boardroom table
Typical programme

A cohort from application to investment decision

The rounds most accelerator programmes already run, carried by one pipeline instead of a shared spreadsheet.

  1. Applications open

    A short, capacity-limited form collects the round's intake in days, not weeks.

  2. Screening round

    A first rubric filters the pile down to a shortlist worth an interview.

  3. Partner interviews

    Investors and mentors score the shortlist, with conflicts declared and blind review where identity should not colour a score.

  4. Pitch day

    Founders present live; the projector board updates as scores land.

  5. Investment decision

    A committee report carries the final ranking into the partners' decision meeting.

Collect

A short form built for a fast intake

Accelerator applications favour speed over length: a lean multi-stage form, a registration window with a capacity limit, and direct pitch-deck upload, so a cohort's intake closes in days rather than weeks.

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Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

Venture

Venture nameShort text
SectorSelect
Stage of developmentSelect (TRL)
DepartmentSelect
Show when applying as is faculty
Pitch deckFile upload · PDF up to 20 MB
Evaluate

A jury of investors, moving through rounds without friction

Screening, interviews and pitch day each run as a round with its own rubric, promoting only the shortlist forward. Conflicts are declared before assignment, blind review protects judgement where it matters, and the leaderboard shows human, AI and blended views side by side.

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Leaderboard

5 of 126 teams · ranked by human score

  1. 1
    Halcyon Grid#0142
    46.5 / 50 (93%)
  2. 2
    Quorum Bio#0127
    43 / 50 (86%)
  3. 3
    Farmlight#0139
    41.5 / 50 (83%)
  4. 4
    Tessel Labs#0118
    39 / 50 (78%)
  5. 5
    Orrin Health#0083
    37 / 50 (74%)
Decide

Pitch day, live, with the standings the room can see

Run the session with a timer and a projector board that updates as scores land, then export the round's ranking straight into the partner decision meeting.

Explore pitch day and reports
Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort IIINow pitching

Farmlight

04:32
  • 1Halcyon Grid46.5
  • 2Quorum Bio43
  • 3Farmlight41.5

Committee report

Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III · .xlsx

Generated 2 min ago · scheduled weekly to the committee

What teams use most

What accelerator teams use most

  • Multi-round pipeline with promotion

    Move only the shortlist forward from screening to interviews to pitch day, each round with its own rubric.

  • Conflict-of-interest declarations

    An investor declares a conflict before assignment, not after scoring — kept out of the pool entirely.

  • Blind review

    Hide identifying details where a jury's judgement should not be coloured by who is asking.

  • Auto-assign by expertise

    Route a fintech application to the juror who knows fintech, without a manual spreadsheet round-robin.

  • Calibration

    Z-score normalisation adjusts for a generous juror sitting next to a strict one before ranks are final.

  • Live pitch-day session control

    Start, pause and advance a pitch day with a timer and a projector board the room watches update.

  • Human, AI and blended leaderboard views

    Compare a jury's ranking against IdeaScore AI's researched score before the final call.

  • Committee Excel export

    The round's ranking, ready for the partner meeting that decides the cheque.

Questions

Frequently asked

How fast can we open and close a round?
A registration window with a capacity limit is a few settings, not a rebuild — accelerator cohorts commonly run intake-to-shortlist inside a couple of weeks.
How do investor jurors declare a conflict?
A conflict-of-interest declaration happens before assignment, so a juror with a stake in a company never receives that application to score.
Does blind review hide the founder's identity from the jury?
Yes, where you turn it on — identifying details are withheld from the scoring view while the rubric and pitch content remain visible.
Can our accelerator brand appear instead of IdeaScore's?
Yes, white-label branding — your logo, colours and login copy — is available on our paid plans, delivered per organisation from the platform console.

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