Submit a deck in 1 minute. Meet the best VCs.

Deep Checks matches the best deeptech founders with leading deeptech VCs.

We are for hardware companies. Meaning, you make something physical—materials, chemicals, robots, sensors, vehicles, biotech (no pharmaceutical drugs), and so on. In other words, not pure software.

Want help putting your pitch together? Read our Fundraising Guides.

If you get in, your deck is seen by 50+ deeptech VCs. It takes about a minute. We read every submission, then we spend dozens of hours writing custom pitches for the strongest ones, and we send the pitches to the investors whose theses match. Interested VCs email you directly. They write $250K-$5M checks each.
There is no program to attend and no equity to give up. We simply get you intros to VCs who invest in your niche space. We exist to benefit the deeptech community.
As long as your valuation is below $25M, apply at any stage—pre-incorporation, pure idea, prototype, post-accelerator, revenue—no time is too early. All countries welcome.
A key benefit of Deep Checks is we get you in front of many investors at the same time. When multiple investors are interested at once, that gives you leverage to negotiate a higher valuation and to close your round quicker. We give you the experience of a demo day without having to go through an accelerator and give up equity.
Deep Checks itself can also invest $200K into the best startups—if the founders want the extra capital from us. There are also a handful of valuable surprises you'll get if you make it into a batch: resources you will not find anywhere else, and community events with other scientist founders.

Questions? Contact decks@deepchecks.vc. Application form last revised in March, 2026.

No equity taken. Exists to benefit the community. And yet you still get a demo-day like experience of meeting many VCs (if they're interested).

You give up 7%+ of your company. That's significant for a capital-intensive hardware company that needs another $75M to scale.

In-depth reviews. We guarantee that at least two investors go through every deck to find diamonds in the rough.

Most applications are overlooked. And many great ones are not understood by non-technical reviewers.

Tailored. Our entire network is scientists and engineers. We understand your niche sector.

Mentors are often ex-SaaS founders. Stop explaining the Second Law of Thermodynamics to SaaS investors—focus on the right people.

Agriculture

Batteries

Biotech

Chips

Climate (Hardware)

Defense

Energy

Food

Hardware

Medtech (Hardware)

Materials

Robotics

Space

Transportation (Hardware)

Quantum (Hardware)

Agriculture

Batteries

Biotech

Chips

Climate (Hardware)

Defense

Energy

Food

Hardware

Medtech (Hardware)

Materials

Robotics

Space

Transportation (Hardware)

Quantum (Hardware)

Who are you?

First Name

Company name

Personal LinkedIn URL

Contact email

Company website (Optional)

Geographic region

Referred by, or how you heard about us (Optional, but helpful)

What are you building?

Sector

We can make extensive introductions for each of the supported sectors below. We do not support pure software startups nor pure pharmaceutical startups.

Valuation

How much money you're raising

How far along are you?

In words, describe your traction with customers. If you don’t have revenue nor LOIs yet, that's okay—instead describe how you’ve proven (or why you know) demand exists for your product. Don't use this section to give a generic summary of your startup—we'll take care of the summary part when we present you to VCs.

Pitch deck: URL or Upload

Optional: A single URL for any additional pitch document, e.g. a memo

Final checklist

I confirm that my startup is not purely software-based.

Your product must include a physical component. In other words, you cannot be pure software (that includes AI models). We also do not accept pure pharmaceutical startups.

I confirm that my startup has a path to $100M+/yr in revenue within a few years. 

We only consider startups with the potential to reach large, venture-scale valuations.

I confirm that all shared URLs have unrestricted view access.

Submissions with restricted links or URL shorteners with built-in tracking will be rejected.

I confirm that I have not submitted an application in the past 6 months.

Resubmissions within this timeframe will be rejected.

I consent to sharing the deck with your VCs.

We share your deck with 50+ vetted deeptech VCs who are part of Deep Checks. All are required to maintain confidentiality. This expanded network ensures connections across specialized niches. We work really hard to get you the right intros. Email us any time if you want your deck pulled for any reason.

Running into problems? Contact john@deepchecks.vc.

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We’ve received your deck and will take a look. We're honored you submitted—it's seriously appreciated.

Your submission will be reviewed by the team. If an investor is interested, they will reach out directly, and will usually do so within 4 weeks at the latest. If no investors reach out by then, it’s likely no one will this go-around. (About 30% of those who submit get emailed by investors.)

We don’t provide feedback; we’re just a router for getting your deck in front of investors.

Reminder: Be sure your deck link remains the same throughout the next few weeks. If you move, delete, or alter the link, it may prevent investors from seeing it.

By the way, typically VCs pass because:
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- They’re not convinced a startup is among the most-likely companies they’ve seen to reach $1B in valuation. $1B+ is often needed for their fund economics to work.
- They’re concerned that your competitive landscape is too saturated, and they don’t think you’re differentiated enough.
- They’ve seen an idea similar to yours that they felt was executed better and would rather back that team if they could.

Finally, as a thanks for submitting to Deep Checks, we have two gifts for you:

1) We've written deeptech fundraising guides from the 1000s of decks and pitches we've seen, which we hope can be of service to you: deepchecks.vc/guides. They cover fundraising, sales, pitching, and hiring.

2) Better yet, you now have access to our founder resource portal:
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https://www.papermark.com/view/cmdruzdd9000bjr04qdavq060
pw: iLoveDeepTech

That is a contact list of vetted service providers that deeptech startups use to succeed.

Thanks again,
John Forbes
DeepChecks.VC
Built by Julian.Capital for the deeptech community

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