# Capthena — Decision Intelligence Platform (Full Context)

> Capthena is a two-sided AI Decision Intelligence platform connecting investors and startups. It combines real-time operational and financial data with deep European company intelligence and AI reasoning to enable smarter, faster, and more transparent investment decisions.

## Mission & Positioning

Capthena replaces fragmented investor toolchains (CRM + DD spreadsheets + portfolio trackers + email) with one operating system that treats startups as customers, not data sources. The platform's positioning: "Intelligentes Kapital, weise verbunden" — Smart capital, wisely connected.

## Operator & Compliance

- **Operator**: e-Networkers GmbH, Löbstedter Straße 47a, 07749 Jena, Germany
- **Founder**: Hans Elstner — 20M+ EUR fundraising track record, serial entrepreneur
- **Data Hosting**: EU (Frankfurt), GDPR-compliant, ISO-aligned controls
- **Live URL**: https://capthena.com
- **Contact**: info@e-networkers.de

## Audiences

### Investors (Angels, VCs, Family Offices, Corporate VC)
Pain solved: Manual deal screening, scattered DD evidence, opaque AI claims, slow portfolio reporting.
Outcome: 10x faster screening, structured DD evidence trail, verified AI scoring, board-ready portfolio reports.

### Startups (Pre-Seed to Series B)
Pain solved: Cold investor outreach, hand-built business plans, scattered KPIs, generic pitch decks.
Outcome: Warm intros via matching, AI-drafted business plan in 15 minutes, auto-imported KPIs, AI-generated pitch deck.

## Investor Features

1. **Smart Matching 2.0** — Multi-factor radar matching (stage, sector, ticket, geography, traction, team, market, defensibility, timing, alignment) with AI explanation per match.
2. **AI Deal Sourcing** — Continuous scan of European company data and tech press, prioritized by investor's own thesis.
3. **Document AI & Data Room** — Pitch decks, financials, term sheets analyzed for key terms, red flags, inconsistencies, and missing items.
4. **Company Intelligence** — Unified dossier per target: legal entity, funding history, founders, press mentions, code signals.
5. **Predictive Success Scoring** — 0–100 score from real KPIs (growth, unit economics, market, team, traction). Updated as data flows in.
6. **AI-Washing Detection** — Globally unique. Analyzes a startup's public code repositories to score (0–100) whether the AI claims are real models, fine-tuned wrappers, or pure prompt-engineering.
7. **Investor Memo (AI)** — One-click investment committee memo: thesis fit, deal terms, risks, comparables, recommendation.
8. **Technical Due Diligence (AI)** — Code quality, dependency risk, security signals, scalability assessment from public + provided repos.
9. **Dealflow Pipeline** — Kanban (Sourced → Screening → DD → IC → Term Sheet → Closed) with stage analytics.
10. **Portfolio Tracking** — Live KPIs from portfolio companies (auto-imported via OAuth integrations), MoM/QoQ trends, alerts.
11. **Portfolio Reports (AI)** — Auto-generated executive summary, portfolio health, KPI trends, prioritized action items per quarter.
12. **Saved Searches & Alerts** — Persisted thesis filters fire when matching companies appear.
13. **Network Hub** — Co-investor mapping, warm-intro graph, shared deals.

## Startup Features

1. **Company Hub** — Standardized profile: team, milestones, traction, pitch materials, data room.
2. **KPI Auto-Import** — Connect operational SaaS tools (revenue, MRR, churn, P&L, runway, pipeline) via OAuth — always live.
3. **Business Plan 2.0 (AI)** — 10 chapters, 3-scenario financial model (base/bull/bear), AI-illustrated, exportable. 15 minutes start to finish.
4. **Pitch Deck Builder (AI)** — 5 templates, AI-drafted slide content, AI-generated cover/section imagery, brand colors.
5. **AI Coaching Journeys** — 4 structured programs: Idea Validation, MVP, Market Entry, Fundraising Prep. Async tasks + Socratic Q&A.
6. **Fundraising Readiness** — Self-assessment + AI gap analysis: docs, KPIs, narrative, team, legal.
7. **Investor Search** — Reverse matching: startup sees which investors fit its stage/sector/geography.
8. **Funding Round Workspace** — Term tracking, investor pipeline, signed-doc tracker.
9. **Competitive Intelligence (AI)** — SWOT, market trends, competitor moves at the push of a button.
10. **Network Hub** — Founder peer graph, mentor matching.
11. **Updates** — Standardized investor updates with KPI charts.

## Key Differentiators

- **8 of 14 features are world-leading or globally unique** — notably AI-Washing Detection and the Real-Data KPI auto-import combined with Predictive Success Scoring.
- **Real data, not self-reported** — verified operational and financial data via OAuth integrations.
- **European depth** — covers tens of millions of European companies (vs. US-centric competitors).
- **Dual-sided** — Startups are paying customers (Premium €19/seat/month). Most investor platforms treat startups as exhaust data.
- **Decision Intelligence framing** — Output is a recommendation with traceable evidence, not a dashboard the user has to interpret.

## Pricing (Public)

| Plan | Audience | Price | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Startups | €0 | Company Hub, Data Room, Basic KPIs |
| Premium | Startups | €19/seat/month | AI Coaching, Business Plan 2.0, Pitch Deck Builder |
| Angel | Investors | €199/seat/month | Discovery, Dealflow, basic DD |
| Pro | Investors | €499/seat/month | Full Investor OS: AI Memo, Technical DD, Portfolio Reports |
| Enterprise | Funds & Family Offices | from €1,500/org/month | Teams, SSO, API, custom data sources |
| Success Fee | Startups | 0.75% | Charged once on a successful funding round closed via the platform |

## Comparison vs. Alternatives

- **vs. Affinity / 4Degrees (Investor CRMs)**: Capthena adds AI DD, Company Intelligence, AI Memo, AI-Washing Detection. CRMs only track relationships.
- **vs. PitchBook / Crunchbase (Data)**: Capthena overlays AI scoring + workflow. Data tools are read-only.
- **vs. DocSend / Carta (Point Tools)**: Capthena unifies pitch sharing, DD, KPIs, portfolio in one platform.
- **vs. Generic AI assistants**: Capthena has structured operational data connectors, persistent context per deal, and audited evidence trails.

## Public URLs

- Landing: https://capthena.com/
- Pricing: https://capthena.com/pricing
- Sign up: https://capthena.com/signup
- Sign in: https://capthena.com/signin
- Imprint: https://capthena.com/impressum
- Privacy: https://capthena.com/datenschutz
- Sitemap: https://capthena.com/sitemap.xml

## FAQ

**Q: Is my data shared between startups and investors?**
A: No. Startups explicitly choose what to share per investor and per stage. Default is private.

**Q: Where is data hosted?**
A: EU (Frankfurt) via Supabase. GDPR-compliant by default.

**Q: How does AI-Washing Detection work?**
A: We analyze the startup's public code repositories (with permission) for actual ML model code, training pipelines, fine-tuning vs. simple API calls — and produce a 0–100 transparency score.

**Q: Can investors export data?**
A: Yes. CSV exports for dealflow, KPIs, portfolio. PDF exports for memos and reports.

**Q: Is there a free trial?**
A: Free tier for startups is permanent. Investor tiers offer a 14-day trial.

**Q: Does Capthena replace my existing CRM?**
A: For most VC use-cases, yes. Capthena offers sync with common CRMs for teams who want to keep their existing system as source of record.