Evaluate your startup idea the way a VC would
Built by Leo Cui — Harvard PhD, MIT Broad Institute, GP at FoundersX Ventures. Based on reviewing thousands of companies.
Most first-time founders get feedback too late — after they've already pitched and been rejected. By then, the market sizing was wrong, the competition slide missed the point, and the team story didn't land. AskLeo asks the hard questions before you pitch.
How it works
Two products. One Leo.
Stress-test your idea with a VC's questions
A conversation that walks through problem, market, team, IP, regulatory, data moat, and path to $100M revenue.
Start an idea →Slide-by-slide VC feedback on your deck
Upload a PDF and get a detailed review — talking points, anticipated questions, top three fixes, and the one thing.
Upload a deck →Simple pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're serious.
Try one idea, see how it works.
- ·1 idea
- ·10 credits total
- ·Session-only history
- ·No pitch deck review
For solo founders shipping seriously.
- ·5 ideas
- ·Unlimited credits
- ·3 pitch deck reviews / month
- ·Conversation history forever
- ·Export PDF / Word / Email
- ·Share links
- ·Investor readiness score
For founding teams with a cofounder.
- ·Unlimited ideas
- ·Unlimited credits
- ·Unlimited pitch deck reviews
- ·Cofounder collaboration
- ·2 active sessions
- ·Everything in Lite
I have a PhD in Bioengineering from Harvard and did my postdoc at MIT Broad Institute. I'm a General Partner at FoundersX Ventures, an AI and deep-tech VC fund, with 10 papers, 6 patents, two research projects that led to startups, and one technology licensed to Quanterix (NASDAQ: QTRX). I'm a founding leadership member of Nucleate.
A lot of first-time founders and students have reached out asking for feedback on their ideas. I can't always respond to everyone — so I built this instead. Still a work in progress.