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Startup EcoSystem™ is proud to be a Gold Sponsor and Partner at the Angel Capital Association (“ACA”) Summit 2024. We will be featuring our latest product ready for release in June 2024 which allows for accurate ROI forecasting across multiple executed and planned funding rounds together with version 3 of the Startup EcoSystem™ DealIQ™ survey form. Startup Ecosystem™ products are designed for use by angel groups, accelerators, and incubators to best qualify the deal applications received from startup and early-stage Founders and their ventures. The DealIQ™ Lite is offered by Startup EcoSystem™ at no cost to investment organizations for the use and benefit of Founders and prospective investors.

Startup Ecosystem™ announces the evolution of the DealIQ™ survey and report analysis tool to incorporate the use of AI into its analysis stack. With this evolution of DealIQ™, we are updating our domain name to StartupEcoSystem.ai While all existing DealIQ™ Lite and Full reports that were submitted prior to this date will continue to work, all new submissions will originate from and be accessed via the StartupEcoSystem.ai domain and secure access page.

Startup EcoSystem™ announces that in the 4-weeks following the ACA Summit 2023 that more than 20 angel organizations have subscribed to make use of the Startup EcoSystem™ DealIQ™ Lite survey form to best qualify the deal applications received from startup and early-stage Founders and their ventures. The DealIQ™ Lite is offered by Startup EcoSystem™ at no cost to investment organizations for use by Founders.

Startup EcoSystem™ announces the retirement of founding member JJ Richa who will be focusing attention on Pismo Ventures where he serves as CEO and President. Pismo Ventures hosts the annual National Life Science Startup Symposium and the National B2B, B2C, B2B2B, B2B2C, B2G including C2C Startup Symposium.  Startup EcoSystem™ is the originator of DealIQ™ Lite for use by angel groups, accelerators, and incubators to best qualify the deal applications received from startup and early-stage Founders and their ventures. The DealIQ™ Lite is offered by Startup EcoSystem™ at no cost to investment organizations for use by Founders.

Startup EcoSystem™ announced the release of the DealIQ Lite founder and deal readiness survey and report. DealIQ™ Lite is the first in a series of deep dive readiness surveys designed for use by Founders or early-stage and startup businesses to assess their readiness across 12 to 16 areas of core business functionality. Areas evaluated are dependent on the industry group(s) that the business is most closely identified with.  The DealIQ model comes from the 18+ month effort of the core team of Startup Ecosystem Founders who collectively have made individual or group investments in well over 100 startups over two decades of angel investment and early-stage VC efforts.  The DealIQ™ Lite survey form is available for use by angel groups, accelerators, and incubators to best qualify the deal applications received from startup and early-stage Founders and their ventures. The DealIQ™ Lite is offered by Startup EcoSystem™ at no cost to investment organizations for use by Founders.

Startup EcoSystem™ is proud to be a Bronze Sponsor and Partner at the Angel Capital Association (“ACA”) Summit 2023. We will be featuring the Startup EcoSystem™ DealIQ™ survey form for use by angel groups, accelerators, and incubators to best qualify the deal applications received from startup and early-stage Founders and their ventures. The DealIQ™ Lite is offered by Startup EcoSystem™ at no cost to investment organizations for use by Founders.