Kuanta is a startup intelligence platform that enables investors, corporates, and public institutions to scout and evaluate startups in minutes instead of weeks. The platform provides access to a validated database of 3.7M+ startup profiles, layered search capabilities, and industry-specific evaluation frameworks across 19 verticals. Kuanta also offers verified founder contact details and light analysis reports without requiring a pitch deck.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Startup scouting and evaluation tools have not kept pace with market growth, causing high-potential companies to slip through the cracks. Existing databases are often outdated, generic scoring frameworks misapply software metrics to non-software companies, and insights frequently lack external fact-checking, leading to missed opportunities and misleading evaluations.
Solution
Kuanta provides a startup intelligence platform that combines a validated database of 3.7M+ startup profiles with layered search and industry-specific evaluation frameworks. The platform enables users to discover startups through filter-based, tag-based, and semantic relevance searches, then evaluate them using custom weightage and benchmarks tailored to 19 industry verticals. Kuanta's five-step flow moves from active scouting to light analysis, founder contact retrieval, deck upload, and full evaluation, delivering ranked shortlists and evidence-based verdicts in minutes. The platform continuously ingests live data on funding, pivots, and launches, and auto-maps comparable companies for competitive context.
Target Audience
Primary users are venture capital firms, corporate innovation teams, government and grant agencies, competitions and accelerators, and platforms seeking embedded startup intelligence via API.
Features
- Layered search combining keyword matching, vector semantics, and reasoning-based retrieval across 3.7M+ validated startup profiles
- Industry-specific evaluation frameworks across 19 verticals with hundreds of scoring criteria per sector, avoiding generic software-centric benchmarks
- Real-time data crawl ingesting news on funding rounds, product launches, and company developments
- No-pitch-deck evaluation using structured analysis from public signals, with light analysis reports covering team, market, model, concerns, and verdict
- Verified founder contact details including LinkedIn and email, retrievable with one click
- Similar company auto-mapping that surfaces 3-4 comparable offerings for competitive landscape context
- Hot & rising startup detection using outlier detection to identify high-momentum early-stage companies before mainstream visibility