Founding partner — Evolv-X
HELPING GREAT FOUNDERSget funded faster.
Funded House assesses and improves the investability of potentially game-changing companies, helping founders understand what investors see, what is standing in the way, and what to do about it.
- Startup Assessment
- Investability
- Investor Readiness
- Venture Intelligence
01 / What we do
Great ideas aren'tenough.
Companies don't get funded simply because they have compelling technology, ambitious founders, or important missions.
They get funded when investors believe the opportunity is compelling, the company is viable, and the team can execute.
Funded House helps founders understand that equation and improve it.
Assess
Evaluate companies using the Venture Scoreboard, a structured system for assessing startup opportunities, pitches, and underlying business viability. The objective is to replace vague feedback with a clearer understanding of what investors see, where the company stands, and what needs attention.
Improve
Work directly with promising companies to strengthen their positioning, packaging, planning, and overall investability. The objective isn't simply to create a better pitch. It's to build a stronger case for investment.
Promote
Position qualified companies for meaningful exposure to the customers, strategic partners, investors, and opportunities most relevant to their growth. The stronger the company becomes, the more valuable those introductions become.
02 / Our perspective
Investability canbe improved.
Fundraising is often treated as a search problem: Find more investors. Get more introductions. Send more decks.
But more exposure doesn't fix an opportunity investors aren't ready to fund.
Funded House starts earlier. We look at the company through the lens of the people being asked to invest and identify what strengthens or weakens the case.
Works at the intersection of
The goal isn't simply to help founders pitch better.
It's to help them become more worth investing in.
03 / Meet the founder
Elijah May
Elijah May is the CEO and Co-Founder of Funded House and creator of the Venture Scoreboard.
His work centers on bringing the right people, ideas, and resources together to make things happen, with a particular focus on helping potentially game-changing companies become more investable and reach the capital they need to grow.
That work ultimately led to a larger question:
“What if we could make it easier to identify which companies should be funded and help them get funded faster?”
A strategist, connector, and experience designer, Elijah has spent more than a decade advising companies and organizations on positioning, growth, partnerships, and market engagement.
Funded House was built around that question.
04 / Part of Evolv-X
Enterprise value createsventure value.
Funded House is a founding partner of Evolv-X, the Enterprise Innovation Exchange, alongside J. Ferrara Consulting Solutions and Venture Builders Fund.
Funded House brings the startup assessment and investability perspective to Evolv-X.
Our role is to identify promising startups and help increase the value they can create for enterprise.
Connecting startups with meaningful enterprise challenges can create pathways to pilots, partnerships, and customers. Enterprise traction doesn't just generate revenue. It can validate the solution, strengthen the company's story, and make the opportunity more compelling to outside investors.
When a startup solves a strategically important enterprise problem, the relationship can extend beyond customer and vendor. Evolv-X can create opportunities for corporations and their venture arms to identify startups that warrant strategic investment.
For Funded House, these aren't separate objectives. Creating more enterprise value can create more venture value. That strengthens the startup, improves its investability, and ultimately helps great founders get funded faster.
05 / Contact
What deserves to get funded?
Some of the innovations with the greatest potential to change industries, communities, and lives never reach the capital required to scale. Funded House exists to change that. Through Evolv-X, we can help identify startups capable of solving meaningful enterprise challenges, strengthen their value proposition, create opportunities for commercial validation, and improve the case for investment.
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