What Limpid does

Limpid is a private SaaS and marketplace platform that streamlines startup fundraising by connecting early- and growth-stage startups with a network of 25+ partner venture capital funds. Its core product is the VC Score App (vcscore.ai), an AI-driven scoring and matching engine that analyzes startup data — combining text-based business descriptions with structured inputs such as funding history and stage — to generate an investment-readiness score and route high-scoring startups to relevant VC partners. The platform positions itself as a single-application alternative to cold-outreach fundraising, offering founders transparent evaluation criteria and real-time feedback on strengths and improvement areas.

Limpid's business model is a two-sided marketplace with SaaS characteristics. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed; the platform operates on a pay-as-you-go cadence and monetizes by facilitating funding rounds, matching startups with investors, and providing scoring/matching services to both sides of the market. Startup applicants are the primary demand-side users, while the 25+ partner VC funds — including relationships with Insight Partners, Mangrove Capital, and Intel Capital via Limpid's CIO — constitute the supply-side deal-flow subscribers. Distribution is digital-first and self-serve through the website and VC Score app, with parallel direct-relationship management on the VC side.

The company inherits its investment DNA from the ABRT Venture Fund (founded 2006 by Andrei Baronov and Ratmir Timashev), whose original co-investment practice generated a stated 43% IRR and supports Limpid's listed 30+ portfolio companies, including Acronis and SmartBear (each unicorn exits), Firemon, KupiVip, MSP360, and 5Nine. Limpid itself was established as a digital platform in 2020 under a new management team led by Managing Partner Ulugbek Zayniev, with a roughly eleven-person bench drawn from Intel, Google, Tesla, Lyft, Rivian, Facebook, Yandex, Uber, Samsung, Motorola, and EMC.

Name

Limpid

Legal name

Limpid

Website

https://golimpid.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Limpid is a SaaS marketplace that uses AI-driven scoring and matching to connect early- and growth-stage startups with a network of 25+ partner VC funds, replacing cold-outreach fundraising with a single application routed to relevant investors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Platform/SaaS Model: Limpid operates as a marketplace connecting startups with VCs. The platform generates revenue by facilitating funding rounds, matching startups with investor networks, and providing scoring/matching services to both sides of the marketplace.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Limpid operates the VC Score App, an AI-powered scoring and matching platform that helps startups secure funding from a network of 25+ partner VC funds. Startups submit a single application through the platform and receive an AI-generated investment readiness score, with the highest-scoring startups being matched and introduced to relevant venture capital firms based on stage and sector. The platform also provides VCs with a curated deal flow pipeline, replacing cold outreach and pitch-deck-driven fundraising with data-driven matching.

Product overview

Limpid is a global startup sourcing and pipeline management platform that streamlines the fundraising process. The core offering consists of the VC Score App, an AI-powered scoring and matching platform that enables startups to secure funding alongside top-tier VCs. The platform eliminates traditional barriers to fundraising by relying on data and AI-driven analysis rather than cold emails and pitch decks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• VC Score App AI-driven scoring and matching application that evaluates startup profiles, generates an investment readiness score, provides transparent feedback on strengths and improvement areas, and connects high-scoring startups with Limpid's network of 25+ partner VC funds. It is used by early-stage to growth-stage startups seeking seed through Series A+ financing and by VCs seeking pre-screened deal flow.

Quantifiable outcome

• 43% IRR achieved with co-investment strategy
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• VC Score (vcscore.ai)coreTechnology or IntegrationVC Score is the underlying technology platform that powers Limpid's AI-driven startup evaluation and matching services. Startups apply through the VC Score platform to receive investment readiness scores and get connected to partner VCs. This appears to be a closely integrated technology partnership.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• SeedInvest: SeedInvest is a regulated online investment platform that lets startups raise capital from a broad investor base. It overlaps Limpid's role as a fundraising intermediary between startups and investors.
• AngelList: AngelList is the leading online platform connecting startups with investors, syndicates, and rolling funds. It directly competes with Limpid as a marketplace for early-stage fundraising, deal syndication, and investor matching.
• Republic: Republic is a private investment platform enabling startups to raise capital from retail and accredited investors, with syndicate and venture offerings. It directly competes with Limpid for startup fundraising distribution.
• F6S: F6S is a global startup network connecting founders with accelerators, investors, and grants. It competes directly with Limpid for early-stage startup-VC matchmaking, particularly internationally.
• Carta: Carta is the dominant cap table, equity management, and private-market liquidity platform. It increasingly bundles deal sourcing and investor introductions, putting it in direct competition with Limpid's marketplace model.
• Crunchbase: Crunchbase provides a company/intelligence database widely used by VCs for deal sourcing and by startups for fundraising. It overlaps Limpid's AI-driven matching and deal-pipeline positioning toward VCs and founders.
• Wefunder: Wefunder is a Regulation Crowdfunding platform enabling startups to raise from retail investors, overlapping Limpid's startup fundraising facilitation, especially for earlier and community rounds.
• Gust: Gust provides an online fundraising platform connecting startups with angel investors and VCs globally. It overlaps Limpid's core startup-investor marketplace function and standardized online application flow.

Emerging players

• Visible.vc: Visible.vc provides investor relations and update tools for venture-backed startups, with founder-investor communication features. It sits adjacent to Limpid's matching layer by serving the post-introduction communication and reporting workflow.

Broad incumbents

• PitchBook: PitchBook is a broad incumbent in VC/private-equity data and deal sourcing, used by institutional investors to source and track deals. It overlaps Limpid's VC-facing deal-flow value proposition, though within a much wider data subscription product.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/limpid-vc
• Xx.com/golimpid

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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