Run the whole cohort on one honest instrument.
Accelerators, incubators, and startup hubs use ValidLab to put every team through the same validation method, so readiness is comparable across the portfolio, mentor time goes to substance, and demo day is built on evidence instead of polish.
A mentor sees a team once a week, maybe once a month, and never in the moment a founder is filling in the work or running the research. ValidLab’s Advisor is always there in between: precise, unbiased, structured. Your mentors arrive to better-prepared teams, so their limited hours go to coaching rather than catching up on the basics. (Hubs use ValidLab as a team. It’s the instrument your teams work in, and it doesn’t replace what the hub itself does.)
One instrument across the cohort
Every team validates the same way, so progress is comparable. No more reconciling ten different decks and a dozen definitions of “traction”.
Readiness you can compare across teams
Mentors and selection committees see each idea’s gate progress and evidence-weighted answer quality, both computed deterministically, with any open deal-breakers listed beside them. Ideas of the same type are scored by the same rules.
Mentor time where it counts
The Advisor handles the obvious gaps so your mentors spend their hours on the judgment calls only a human can make.
Demo-day quality, raised
Teams arrive at demo day with claims backed by evidence and deal-breakers already surfaced, so fewer preventable weak claims reach investors.
Set up your program.
Spin up your hub and bring your first cohort in, or tell us your size and timeline and we’ll walk you through it. No self-serve checkout.
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