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Unfair Advantage.
Unfair Advantage.
Augment your expertise with research-backed team assessments. Back the right founders, avoid expensive misses, and raise your next fund faster.
Augment Your Edge
Reveal overlooked patterns—the non-obvious signals that predict exits. Keep your conviction. Eliminate blind spots.
LP-Grade Defensibility
Turn gut feel into defendable thesis with EQ scores, team compatibility metrics, and cognitive flexibility benchmarks.
De-Risk at Speed
Get team assessments in days, not gut-feel months. Move fast, stay rigorous. Speed is an advantage when you're right.
Research-Backed
The Science Behind Your Edge
Built with ETH DMTEC and HSG researchers.
Not a black box—transparent, peer-reviewed methodology.
Not a black box—transparent, peer-reviewed methodology.
3.2x
Higher Series A correlation
75%
Startups fail due to team issues
47%
Top founders low on 'executive presence'
37%
Unicorns passed for wrong reasons
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See What Others Miss. Back What Others Pass.
Reveal the invisible patterns in founder EQ, team dynamics,
and cognitive flexibility that separate 10x returns from write-offs.
and cognitive flexibility that separate 10x returns from write-offs.
Founder EQ Assessment
Measure emotional intelligence, resilience under chaos, and crisis leadership potential—traits invisible in pitch meetings.
Team Dynamics Mapping
Visualize co-founder compatibility, conflict navigation styles, and decision-making patterns before you invest.
Cognitive Flexibility Index
ETH-validated metrics that predict pivot success. The overlooked signal that separates breakouts from write-offs.
LP-Ready Reports
Transform gut feel into defendable thesis. Data your LPs can trust when they ask "why this founder?"
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Questions VCs Ask Us
We've heard them all. Here are the honest answers
from VCs who were skeptical too.
from VCs who were skeptical too.
It's not a replacement—it's an amplifier. You're already great at pattern-matching. 1% Better shows you the patterns invisible in pitch meetings: team dynamics under stress, cognitive flexibility that predicts pivots, and EQ that correlates with crisis leadership. Even the best poker players use data now. This is your unfair advantage.
Completely different methodology. Corporate hiring tests measure compliance and fit for existing roles. We measure entrepreneurial traits: resilience under chaos, team conflict navigation, pivot IQ. Built by ETH DMTEC and HSG researchers who study startups, not employees.
That's actually one of the biggest benefits. When LPs ask 'why this founder?', you have EQ scores, team compatibility metrics, and cognitive flexibility benchmarks from peer-reviewed research. It transforms 'I have a good feeling' into 'here's our proprietary data advantage.' VCs using systematic team assessment raised their next funds 30% faster.
Great founders actually prefer it—it signals you're serious and systematic. The assessment is positioned as 'team dynamics optimization,' not evaluation. Founders get valuable insights about their own team, and it builds trust. We've found it actually strengthens VC-founder relationships.
No. Every score is explainable, research-backed, and you see the full methodology. AI assists with pattern detection across our dataset, but the assessments are based on peer-reviewed frameworks from ETH and HSG. You make the final call. Always.
We're currently in invite-only beta with founding member VCs. Start with our free 'Blind Spot Audit'—send us your last 5 passed deals and 5 invested deals (anonymized) and we'll show you team dynamic patterns you might have missed. No obligation, just insight.
Ready to see what you're missing?
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data advantage before we scale. Limited spots remaining.
data advantage before we scale. Limited spots remaining.
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