Deep-tech founders spend months pitching the wrong investors.
Venture Hill ranks investors and federal funding opportunities by how well they fit your sector, stage and technology, and explains every match in plain language.
Free for founders and investors during beta. Built by FedTech, whose programs have supported more than 1,000 deep-tech companies.
Cascade Deep Tech Ventures
VC, leads Series A, $8M to $15M checks
Cascade has led three battery-materials Series A rounds, and your $12M raise sits inside its usual check. Your SBIR Phase I award counts as federal validation.
Investors and public funding, ranked by fit
"Roughly nine of ten first meetings between startups and investors are a mismatch. We built Venture Hill so the tenth happens first."
The same problem, in numbers
of first meetings waste both sides’ time
of investor conversations lead nowhere
pitches to land a single investor
investor calls a month a corporate VC can take
How it works
From one profile to a ranked list of funding leads.
You describe your company once. The matching engine scores it against every investor and open federal topic on the network and writes out the reasoning for each match.
Who it's for
Our magic is in the matching algorithm, built on ten years of FedTech deep-tech programs.
Investors and funding that fit your company
Available today:
- Set up your profile in a few minutes: your company, your funding history and what you’ve built.
- A ranked list of investors whose thesis, stage and sector actually overlap yours, each with the reasoning written out.
- Show your SBIR and STTR record on your profile, awarded and in flight. Federal validation is a de-risking signal investors read.
- Open SBIR and STTR topics matched to your technology, with the close date attached.
A short list of startups that fit your thesis
Available today:
- A short list of startups ranked by fit with your thesis, each with a written reason to talk this quarter.
- Federal funding history sits alongside fit, so a Phase II in a lane you follow is visible at a glance.
- What you are hunting this quarter stays private. The network signals that you are active without publishing your thesis.
The sectors we cover
Matching runs on a shared vocabulary, from advanced materials and energy through software, health, and industrials, so every match lands on real overlap.
Who is behind Venture Hill
Built by FedTech, a deep-tech commercialization firm.
FedTech has spent more than a decade running accelerators, startup studios and technology transfer programs for federal agencies, national labs and corporations. Venture Hill is its matching network for the founders and investors in deep tech. Founders working toward SBIR or STTR awards can also get help from FedTech's advisory team.
- companies through FedTech programs
- 1,000+
- raised by those companies after their programs
- $5.7B+
- partner labs
- 120+
- programs delivered
- 136+