For investors
Deal flow that already fits.
Safqos scores every opportunity against your declared criteria, itemizes the risk behind the score, and ranks the feed before you spend a minute.
02 · The funnel
Where the hours actually go.
The cost of deal flow is not the deals you do. It is the volume you review to find them. Research on venture funnels puts the ratio at roughly a hundred to one.
Funnel ratio from Ilya Strebulaev, Stanford GSB, on the venture deal funnel and CB Insights' venture funnel analysis. Stage splits vary by firm and mandate. The highlighted stages are the ones Safqos is built to compress: scoring every deal against your declared criteria and itemizing its risk before you read it.
03 · The engine
Fit and Risk, computed before you open anything.
A Fit Score reads your declared criteria against the deal. A Risk Score reads what the other side submitted. Both are itemized rather than asserted.
Six dimensions, investment fit largest at 33%
Then industry at 24, stage and traction at 19, with business and customer fit, involvement and geography behind them. A deal can share your sector and still score badly because the check size or the structure is wrong.
63 checks on a startup profile, 68 on an operating business
Each one that fires carries a severity tier and a written explanation, so you read which disclosures are missing rather than trust a number.
The other side reads the same reasoning
Every deduction carries a second explanation written for the person being scored. A gap you can see is a gap they chose to leave, not one they never knew about.
04 · The vault
Fast doesn't mean exposed.
Everything sensitive about a deal sits in one gated place. Nothing opens until both sides accept a mutual NDA, and what opens is released to you specifically.
Every document starts NDA-gated by default. Watermarking is on by default and ties an opened document to the viewer, discouraging onward sharing rather than preventing it. An AI review of financials and data rooms is built and running against sample documents, and switched off for member documents during the beta.
05 · Time reclaimed
Where the time actually goes.
Deal flow is not the shortage. Quality is. Most of the filtering runs on facts both sides could have declared before anyone took a meeting.
Discovery
Figuring out who to talk to. Manual research and list building with no structured data to work from.
Reaching the right person
Cold outreach to unfiltered lists. Most send dozens of messages before one relevant person engages.
Confirming fit
Once someone responds, both sides confirm the fit is real before a deeper conversation. This back and forth drags.
Document exchange
Getting sensitive material to the right person through email chains and file links before anyone has what they need.
Negotiation, legal close, fund transfer
This happens between the parties and their attorneys directly. Safqos has no role here and does not claim to compress it.
The front end collapses from 7–24 weeks to days. Almost all of the 3–11 weeks left is negotiation, legal and close, which happens between you and the other party. Safqos has no role there and does not claim to shorten it.
Compressed timelines are conservative targets for connected parties, not guarantees. The full process from first outreach to close averages 3 to 6 months for angel and early-stage private deals. Individual results vary with deal complexity, responsiveness, and preparation on both sides. Safqos has not launched, so no measured time saving is claimed here.
Sources: DocSend Startup Fundraising, Y Combinator, CRV, BizBuySell, Morgan and Westfield, cold-outreach reply-rate benchmarks, Axial.
06 · Close
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