Angel Lens
A web app that turns a start-up’s pitch deck into a structured analysis in the style of an institutional investment committee, built for angel investors.
- Question
- How close can an angel investor get to the discipline of an institutional fund’s investment memo, starting from a single pitch deck?
- Status
- Prototype
- Started
- March 2026
- Tools
- Claude API
- React
- PDF.js
- Vercel
The problem
Angel investors rarely have the analytical capacity of an institutional fund. I wanted a tool that applies the evaluation discipline I used for years in venture capital and turns a pitch deck into a structured investment analysis.
What I built
A web app that takes a start-up’s deck and returns an 18-section analysis:
- venture capital evaluation criteria and a scorecard,
- market size (TAM/SAM/SOM), competition and comparable companies,
- go-to-market strategy, team and defensibility,
- financial profile, valuation and return scenarios, exit analysis,
- a risk matrix, questions for the founder meeting, an investment memo and a one-page summary.
The interface works in Turkish and English, and results can be exported to PDF and PowerPoint.
What worked
- Extracting text from large PDFs in the browser, instead of uploading the files, cut the payload from megabytes to kilobytes.
- Anchoring the framework in a real investment memo and criteria set made the output far more consistent.
Angel Lens is a decision-support tool; it does not produce investment advice.