The short answer
MarketPrior helps venture capital funds run the public-record part of due diligence on every company in the pipeline: it resolves the company, screens it and its founders for sanctions, PEP status, director disqualifications, litigation and adverse media, reads filings, ownership, Form D history and traction signals, and returns a risk × upside verdict where every finding links to its source. Portfolio companies can then be monitored for new material events.
At a glance
- Best for
- First-pass screening, IC memos, portfolio monitoring
- Inputs
- A company name or domain, or a founder
- Output
- Risk × upside verdict, cited memo, exports (PDF, HTML, Markdown)
- Typical run
- Median about 25 seconds per company in internal benchmarks
- Monitoring
- Daily, weekly or monthly re-screens with sourced alerts
- Plan
- Fund Platform: portfolio-wide monitoring and Deep Dives
How does a fund screen its pipeline with MarketPrior?
Every inbound deal gets the same first pass. The verdict, risk score and upside score are free for any company, so an analyst can screen a whole batch before deciding which companies deserve a full report. The full report unlocks per company, and re-running a company you have already unlocked costs nothing.
Because the work is consistent, two analysts screening two companies get comparable results — and the drivers behind each score are listed, so the verdict can be argued with rather than taken on trust.
- 1
Screen the batch
Run a free screen on each company in the pipeline: verdict, risk score and upside score.
- 2
Open the full report on the shortlist
Litigation detail, financials, ownership, investors, traction, forecast and a cited memo.
- 3
Check the founders
Sanctions, PEP, director disqualification, litigation and adverse media on each founder.
- 4
Take it to IC
Export the memo with its citations, or share a read-only link that expires and can be revoked.
What does the report cover for a startup?
- Sanctions, PEP and UK director-disqualification screening on the company, its officers and its owners, with every hit tiered confirmed, probable or possible.
- Litigation and enforcement, weighted by the subject’s actual role in each case.
- Adverse media classified for relevance, sentiment and materiality.
- Financials from SEC XBRL, ESEF and national registries where they exist.
- Ownership and control: GLEIF parents and subsidiaries, UK PSCs and 13D/13G holders; investors inferred from Form D seats.
- Traction: open roles on public job boards, web rank and archive history, tech stack, GitHub activity, Hacker News and App Store presence.
- For companies with SEC Form D history, an outcome forecast with an 80% range and the base rate — accuracy published only as out-of-time backtest results.
How does portfolio monitoring work for a fund?
Put portfolio companies and key prospects on a watchlist and choose a cadence for each — daily, weekly or monthly. Fast-moving layers such as sanctions, litigation, adverse media and hiring are re-checked daily within a re-screen; slower ones weekly. When something new and material appears, you get one alert with the source, a quote and a confidence, and the same event is never alerted twice.
What MarketPrior does not do for a fund
- It does not read private data rooms, cap tables or management accounts.
- It does not replace references, management meetings or legal and financial review.
- It is decision support, not investment advice; sign-off stays with your team.