Verification

Employment history, roles, and tenure, matched against the team slide.

Repositories, contributions, and project history behind technical founders.

Academic publications and citations for research-backed founders.

Legal entity, incorporation date, and jurisdiction from the public register.

Batch participation for companies that claim a YC pedigree.

Public company and founder background where notable coverage exists.

US patent and trademark filings, matched to the claimed IP portfolio.

International and PCT applications via the European Patent Office.

Patent families and citations across jurisdictions, cross-checked on the public web.

Corporate filings and disclosures from the SEC public record.

Funding rounds, total raised, and investor list, gathered from public web sources.

Company profile, team, and funding signals from the public AngelList / Wellfound listing.

Rounds, valuations, and investor data from Dealroom's public company profiles.

Any other prior rounds and investors, gathered from live web sources at analysis time.

Launch reception and community response for consumer and developer products.

Public ratings, reviews, and release cadence for mobile products.

Public reviews and ratings that corroborate customer and revenue claims.

A catalog of shut-down startups and their post-mortems, correlated against the deal by the RIP module.

Startup failure stories and causes of death, matched against the deal being analyzed.

The public startup-failure post-mortem list, used as a risk benchmark (not their paywalled data).

Website ownership, registration, and the age of the digital presence.

Recent coverage, competitor moves, and market activity around the company.

The competitive landscape and where the company sits in it, mapped from live web sources.

Historical snapshots that show how long a site and its claims have been live.