Multi-Round Selection Fast Enough for an Investor Jury
Applications, screening, interviews and pitch day, with investors as the jury and conflicts declared upfront.An accelerator's calendar does not wait: applications, a screening round, partner interviews and a pitch day, often inside a few weeks, with investors as the jury and conflicts of interest that have to be declared before anyone scores.
Who Works in It
Programme manager
Investor or mentor juror
Founder applicant
A Cohort From Application to Investment Decision
The rounds most accelerator programmes already run, carried by one pipeline instead of a shared spreadsheet.
Applications open
Screening round
Partner interviews
Pitch day
Investment decision
A short form built for a fast intake
Accelerator applications favour speed over length: a lean multi-stage form, a registration window with a capacity limit, and direct pitch-deck upload, so a cohort's intake closes in days rather than weeks.
A jury of investors, moving through rounds without friction
Screening, interviews and pitch day each run as a round with its own rubric, promoting only the shortlist forward. Conflicts are declared before assignment, and the leaderboard shows blended views.
Screening, interviews and pitch day each run as a round with its own rubric, promoting only the shortlist forward. Conflicts are declared before assignment, blind review protects judgement where it matters, and the leaderboard shows human, AI and blended views side by side.
Pitch day, live, with the standings the room can see
Run the session with a timer and a projector board that updates as scores land, then export the round's ranking straight into the partner decision meeting.
What Accelerator Teams Use Most
Multi-round pipeline with promotion
Conflict-of-interest declarations
Blind review
Auto-assign by expertise
Calibration
Live pitch-day session control
Human, AI and blended leaderboard views
Committee Excel export
Questions Accelerators Ask
See Your Next Cohort Selected in IdeaScore
A 30-minute walkthrough with a product specialist, using your rounds, your rubric and your investor jury.
Who Works in It
Programme manager
Runs a tight round calendar, promotes the shortlist forward, and keeps the pitch day on schedule.
Investor or mentor juror
Declares a conflict where one exists, scores blind where it matters, and moves through a batch fast.
Founder applicant
Applies quickly, tracks which round they have reached, and sees the live pitch-day standing.
A Cohort From Application to Investment Decision
Applications open
A short, capacity-limited form collects the round's intake in days, not weeks.
Screening round
A first rubric filters the pile down to a shortlist worth an interview.
Partner interviews
Investors and mentors score the shortlist, with conflicts declared and blind review where identity should not colour a score.
Pitch day
Founders present live; the projector board updates as scores land.
Investment decision
A committee report carries the final ranking into the partners' decision meeting.
How IdeaScore Runs It
A short form built for a fast intake
Accelerator applications favour speed over length: a lean multi-stage form, a registration window with a capacity limit, and direct pitch-deck upload, so a cohort's intake closes in days rather than weeks.
Explore applicationsA jury of investors, moving through rounds without friction
Screening, interviews and pitch day each run as a round with its own rubric, promoting only the shortlist forward. Conflicts are declared before assignment, and the leaderboard shows blended views.
Explore evaluationPitch day, live, with the standings the room can see
Run the session with a timer and a projector board that updates as scores land, then export the round's ranking straight into the partner decision meeting.
Explore pitch day and reports