Deep Checks University
University
Self-paced
25 lessons

Turn your deeptech idea into a startup

A short, practical course for scientists and engineers: from idea to validation, from lab to product, all the way to raising your round. One exercise per lesson. No login.

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Should you start?
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Validate your idea
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Lab to product
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Company-building basics
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Go-to-market
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Fundraising
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Apply
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How It Works

What makes our content good?

Written by actual VCs

Investors from 40+ leading VCs
Curriculum

The full course

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How the program works and how VC thinks.

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Welcome: turn your deeptech idea into a startup
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How venture capital actually works
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Should you start?

Whether a venture-scale company is the right vehicle for your idea.

Coming soon
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Validate your idea

Market timing, market pull and the deeptech why-now.

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Market timing & the 5 forces
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Market pull: which startups win
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The deeptech "why now" and novel insight
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The 100-customer market-pull test
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Lab to product

Prove demand before you have a product.

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Prove demand without a product: LOIs
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LOI template
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Company-building basics

Hiring a team of killers and a culture of candor.

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Hiring a team of killers
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Building a culture of candor
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Go-to-market

Finding and winning your first customers.

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Fundraising

Valuation, investors, the pitch, the deck, the process.

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How the deeptech raise works
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Valuation, SAFEs, dilution & tranching
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Setting a valuation without killing your company
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Building your investor target list
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Warm intros & cold outreach
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Apply

Accelerators, YC and getting on our radar.

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Should you do an accelerator?
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Nailing the YC application
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Get on our radar
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Ready to meet investors?
Submit your deck and get reviewed by 40+ deeptech VCs. No equity, no program.
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