Common questions about ILUMINA

ILUMINA is an AI-powered startup readiness platform built by ILUMINA AI OÜ. Founders get a free objective readiness score, investor matches, a sequenced action plan and access to senior operators. Investors and accelerators get standardised screening against their own criteria, and impact tracking after selection.

Early-stage founders, and the funds, angels, accelerators and programs who evaluate them. Startup Studio is the founder workspace; Investor Hub is the workspace for investors and programs.

Free includes the full startup assessment, the Company Readiness Index, gap identification, the KPI tracker and a public profile. Pro is €250/year and adds 2 hours of Expert Network sessions, expert-refined priorities, the Quadro AI assistant and unlimited applications. Advanced is €450/year and adds business plan assessment, unlimited re-scores and 4 hours of expert sessions. For investors and programs, book a demo to discuss your setup.

An application form collects answers. ILUMINA scores product, team, financials and market, checks claims against the documents, then turns gaps into dated work and optional expert review.

ILUMINA's AI-generated score across product, team, financials and market. It replaces self-graded checklists with an objective, explained readiness measure founders can share and investors can trust.

The assessment scores your startup profile across product, team, financials and market. You get colour-coded scores and explanations for each area: a decision-support view of where you stand, not a precision ranking.

ILUMINA ranks investors from its directory by your stage, sector and country, shows a match score and explains why each investor fits. You can also browse open calls and accelerator programs, and search the full directory.

The Startup Assessment scores your profile. The Business Plan Assessment (Advanced plan, in beta) analyses your pitch deck and business plan for narrative and unit-economics consistency.

Only what you choose to share. Your public profile lets you select which sections are visible, and you can password-protect the page when sharing sensitive information.

Free includes 2 assessments, Pro includes 10 and Advanced includes unlimited re-scores.

On-demand access to senior operators, including fractional CFOs, growth advisors and venture directors, who review your AI-generated action plan before you commit runway. How it works.

Vetted senior operators in Deep Tech & Venture Strategy, Financial Governance & Capital Raising, and Growth & Market Positioning. You are matched to a category of operator, not a public directory.

Sessions are included in paid founder plans: Pro includes 2 hours and Advanced includes 4 hours. One-to-one sessions are not included on the free plan.

You define a fund or program in four steps: program details and who can apply, selection criteria or an investment thesis, custom evaluation metrics, and extra application questions. Every founder who applies is then scored against those criteria automatically.

Yes. Prospects lets you import pitch decks or batches, run ILUMINA's assessment and fund matching on them, and invite those founders to claim their own workspace.

Each startup's readiness score is saved when it applies. Re-score at demo day and keep monthly KPIs after graduation to show funders the before-and-after.

You control what appears on your public profile, and applying to a fund or program shares only what that application requires. See the Privacy Policy.

ILUMINA AI OÜ is based in Estonia. Cloud hosting infrastructure is located in Germany.

No. AI outputs are decision-support tools reviewed by people. ILUMINA does not make fully automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.