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Investor and Venture Partners · Retained aggregate evidence

The builder signals investors need first.

Five evidence-bound numbers for partnership and investor conversations, followed by two compact checks. The full report remains one click away.

286 applicants · 83 accepted · 78 attendedOne shared aggregate evidence model. No person-level profiles.

Five numbers before anything else

Each number uses the full applicant population unless stated otherwise. Headline signals can overlap; do not add them. Open each definition before forwarding a claim.

187

prototype or beyond

65% of applicants

DefinitionPrototype, working-product, or production maturity.
80

differentiated or ambitious problem framing

28% of applicants

DefinitionThe work addresses a specific non-routine problem with a distinct approach or constraint; topic keywords alone do not qualify.
38

advanced technical evidence

13% of applicants

DefinitionNon-trivial architecture, systems constraints, or production methods are visible in the work; language and stack lists alone do not qualify.
53

founder or co-founder evidence

19% of applicants

DefinitionExplicit founder evidence
17

meaningful external validation

6% of applicants

DefinitionReviewed evidence explicitly names users, adoption, traction, or credible third-party recognition. Non-observation means the current sources did not support this positive claim; it is not a negative rating.

Supporting evidence

Two checks behind the headline

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Where the strongest project signals cluster

Top supported market contexts. Categories overlap, so these counts must not be added together.

  1. Commerce & consumerMarket contexts explicitly supported by the available evidence; people may span several.58
  2. Developer infrastructureMarket contexts explicitly supported by the available evidence; people may span several.39
  3. Enterprise operationsMarket contexts explicitly supported by the available evidence; people may span several.34

Founder and execution context

Application evidence and reviewed project evidence use different definitions; the report keeps them separate.

  1. Founded a companyExplicit founder evidence53
  2. Shipped a real productExplicit shipping, deployment, user, or customer evidence84
  3. Primary or end-to-end executionApplication or submitted-project evidence attributes primary or end-to-end delivery to the participant; repository ownership alone does not qualify.17

Evidence boundary

These are aggregate evidence signals, not investment recommendations or ranked founder profiles. No names, contact details, or profile links are included. Missing evidence is unknown, not negative.

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172 of 286Public-project evidence used in the reviewed aggregate. Coverage is not a quality score.