For founders
Score your business across the eight dimensions venture capital fund managers use to evaluate deals. Get dimension-level feedback on where you stand and what to strengthen before you start pitching.
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Portfolio management for fund managers.
One platform.
Nire is the investment readiness platform for UK founders and emerging fund managers. Score your business across the eight dimensions venture capital fund managers use to evaluate deals, and manage your portfolio with the operational depth spreadsheets cannot provide.
The problem
The information gap between founders and investors
Every year, thousands of UK founders approach venture capital with businesses they have spent years building. Most do not get funded. The reason is rarely that the business is poor. It is usually that the founder does not know what a VC fund manager is actually evaluating against – and the fund manager has no efficient way to find out if a company is ready before investing hours in it.
Venture capital is a specific instrument with specific requirements. A fund evaluates businesses against a particular set of dimensions: market size, defensibility, team composition, revenue trajectory, use of capital. A business that does not meet the threshold on enough of those dimensions will not move forward, regardless of whether the underlying company is valuable. Most founders do not know which dimensions they are being evaluated on, or where they currently stand on each. This is the gap where most investment conversations fail – not on merit, but on information.
The platform
One platform. Two connected sides.
Nire is built around two products. An investability assessment that helps founders see exactly how they stand against the dimensions investors evaluate. A portfolio platform that gives fund managers operational depth across every company they've backed. Each product solves its own problem. The two also connect, which is a bonus rather than the headline.
Founder assessment
Score your business across the eight dimensions venture capital fund managers actually use to evaluate deals. Get a structured, honest read on where you stand before you walk into the room.
Learn more →Portfolio platform
Track ARR, runway, burn, and risk across every fund and company. Replace the spreadsheet you started with, before the operational debt starts costing you LPs.
Learn more → They also connect
Scored founders surface directly in VC pipelines when they choose to be visible to investors.
Founders walk in knowing their score. Fund managers see deal flow that's already been evaluated. The platform exists because both sides currently waste time on conversations that the data could have prevented.
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Built for both sides of the table
For fund managers
Portfolio management built for emerging fund managers. KPI tracking, runway visibility, and a scored pipeline of investment-ready founders. Built to replace the spreadsheet.
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