For accelerators, incubators & studios

Hundreds of applications. A ranked shortlist by the afternoon.

Every intake round buries your reviewers. LaunchValid turns the pile into a ranked cohort, gives your committee a written memo on each founder, and moves the ones you pick straight into a funded validation workspace, all billed to your program.

Programs run on the Business plan. We will set you up and price it for your cohort size.

From application pile to funded cohort

Four steps from a full inbox to the founders you back

Each step feeds the next, so the work your team does to review a founder is the same work that funds them once you say yes.

1

Bring your applicants in

Import a CSV or add applicants by hand. A hosted application form is available too, though never required, so screening works even where your review process cannot host an outside tool.

2

Score the whole cohort

Every applicant is scored against your rubric, criterion by criterion, with a written rationale for each. The cohort comes back ranked, so triage that took days takes minutes.

3

Run your committee

Assign reviewers, collect their recommendations and interview notes side by side, and generate an investment-committee memo that compiles the score, the reviews, and how your program can help.

4

Advance the founders you pick

One click turns an accepted applicant into a full validation workspace, funded by your program, so your founders start real research the day they are in.

Everything your screening committee needs

Rubric scoring and ranking

Your criteria and weights, a per-criterion score with rationale, and a ranked cohort view. A sensible default rubric is ready on day one.

Review committee

Multiple reviewers per applicant, recommendations and interview notes in one panel, and per-reviewer round-robin assignment.

Investment-committee memo

A candid internal memo per applicant: snapshot, problem and traction, market and moat, strengths, honest weaknesses, and how your program helps.

Advance to a funded workspace

Accepted founders move straight into validation research, decks, and a data room, paid for by your program account.

Live working sessions

Run a live, shared session with a founder inside their own research. You work together in one room, and what you cover folds back into their project when you wrap up.

Hosted application form

An optional application form applicants fill in, with entries landing straight in your cohort. CSV import and manual entry work just as well.

You keep the decision. Scoring and the memo are advisory; accept, waitlist, decline, and advance are always your call.

Priced to your program's budget cycle

Buy pooled credits per cohort. They do not expire, so you spend them when your cycle runs.

Pooled program credits

Buy credits your program spends across the whole cohort. One account pays; every founder draws from the same pool.

Buy per cohort

Credits do not expire. Buy for an intake round and consume them when the cycle runs, whether you admit once or twice a year.

Graduate to self-serve

When the program ends, hand a founder off to their own plan. Their workspace and history come with them.

  • Seats and roles for program admins and reviewers
  • Per-cohort or annual, whichever fits your intake
  • Credits never expire
  • Graduate founders to their own account any time

Run your cohort on LaunchValid

Tell us about your program and we will reply with the details and pricing for your cohort size.

Tell us about your program

A few details and we will reply to set up a cohort. No account needed.

Questions from programs

Do applicants have to use an embedded form?

No. Admin CSV import and manual entry are first-class and permanent. Some programs cannot embed an outside tool in their review pipeline, so screening works end to end without one.

How much does scoring a large cohort cost?

Screening is priced to run across your whole intake, so scoring hundreds of applicants stays affordable. The full research run only happens when you explicitly advance a founder, so the expensive step is always your decision.

Who pays, and how?

Your program buys pooled credits and the whole cohort draws from that pool. Credits do not expire, so you can buy per intake round rather than on an annual commitment.

Is the investment memo shown to applicants?

No. The committee memo is an internal, advisory document for your team only. It is candid by design and never shared with the founder.

What happens when a founder graduates?

You can move a founder to their own self-serve account when the program ends. Their research, decks, and data room stay with them.

Give your reviewers their time back

Tell us about your next intake and we will get your program set up.

Talk to us about a cohort