InvestorHub brings transparency and efficiency to startup pitch events. Judges score pitches in real time on their devices, criteria are customizable, and live results dashboards eliminate the manual tallying that slows down competitions. Used at the 2025 Startup World Cup Seattle Regional with 12 competing startups.
Launch InvestorHub All ToolsJudges score on any device in real time; results aggregate instantly, no spreadsheets or paper ballots required. Every score submission is recorded with timestamp and judge identity.
Define your own rubric — market size, team, traction, business model — with custom weights per category. Criteria can be reused across events or modified per competition round.
A public-facing dashboard shows rankings as scores come in, adding drama and transparency to pitch events. Project it on the main screen for audience visibility.
Each startup gets a profile page with pitch deck summary, team info, and contact details for post-event follow-up. Investors can revisit profiles after the event to reconnect.
Manage multiple rounds, set judging windows, export results to PDF or CSV for post-event reporting. Full audit trail of all scoring activity across the event lifecycle.
Aggregate score distributions, judge agreement metrics, and per-criterion analysis to improve future event design. Identify which scoring criteria are most predictive of investor interest.
Startup pitch competitions have a transparency problem. Judges fill out paper scorecards, an organizer collects them, manually enters numbers into a spreadsheet, and announces results 20 minutes later — often to a restless audience that has already started checking their phones. The process is opaque, error-prone, and slow. Founders don't understand how they were scored, judges can't see whether they're scoring consistently with other panelists, and organizers spend the most stressful part of the event doing data entry.
InvestorHub was built to solve this. Judges log in on their own devices — phone, tablet, or laptop — and score each startup against the defined rubric in real time. Scores aggregate instantly. The live results dashboard, designed to be projected on the main event screen, updates as judges submit. The audience watches the standings shift in real time. Founders get immediate, structured feedback. Organizers can focus on running the event instead of counting ballots.
InvestorHub was first deployed at the 2025 Startup World Cup Seattle Regional, organized through Seattle Partners LLC. Twelve Korean and Korean-American startups competed before a panel of judges and an audience of over 300 investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. The platform handled the full scoring lifecycle — startup profiles, judge authentication, criteria weighting, real-time score aggregation, and the live leaderboard projected throughout the venue.
The customizable scoring rubric is one of the most valuable features for event organizers. Different competitions prioritize different things: an early-stage seed competition cares most about team and market size, while a later-stage growth competition weights traction and unit economics more heavily. InvestorHub lets organizers define their own criteria with custom weights before the event and adjust them between rounds if needed.
After the event, the analytics layer helps organizers understand what happened. Judge agreement metrics show whether the panel was aligned or polarized on each startup. Per-criterion breakdowns reveal which scoring dimensions are most contested. These insights improve future event design and give organizers data to share with sponsors and participants about the rigor of the judging process.