# VC Boom > Independent product built on the Claude API that scores founder pitch decks across 7 dimensions, matches founders against 47,000+ active investors ranked by fit, and drafts personalized cold emails grounded in the founder's deck and each investor's thesis. Free to score. Three one-time plans: VC Spark ($297, top 500 matched investors), VC Boom ($697, top 1,500 plus day-3 / day-7 follow-up sequences), VC Big Bang ($1,497, browse all 47,000+ investors with priority review). 642 founders signed up, $95M+ closed, median 48 hours from deck upload to first investor reply. Not affiliated with Anthropic. VC Boom is an independent product. It does not share data with any other product or third party. ## What founders get - **Deck scoring**: upload a PDF, get a 0-100 readiness score across 7 dimensions (problem, market, team, traction, product, competition, ask) plus per-slide rewrite prompts. - **Investor matching**: 47,000+ hand-curated investors (seed VCs, angels, family offices, vertical-specialist funds across climate, fintech, health, AI / dev tools, consumer). Ranked by vertical fit, stage, check size, and recent activity. - **Cold email drafting**: drafts the first email per investor in the founder's voice, citing the investor's specific portfolio overlap. Editable before send. - **Outreach tracking**: see who you sent to, who replied, where you are in each conversation. ## Pricing - Free: score 1 deck, see top 10 matches, 3 unlocked partner emails. - VC Spark: $297 one-time, top 500 ranked investor matches, unlimited AI-drafted cold emails, full partner contact data, 3 deck re-scores. - VC Boom: $697 one-time, top 1,500 investor matches, unlimited drafts, day-3 / day-7 follow-up sequences, pitch coach chat with deck context loaded, deck tune slide-by-slide rewrite, unlimited re-scores. - VC Big Bang: $1,497 one-time, browse all 47,000+ investors, 1:1 strategy call, we review top 20 emails before send, priority support, direct Slack channel until term sheet. All plans are one-time payment, no subscription. Lifetime access through your raise. 7-day money-back window. ## Founder playbooks (long-form, original content) - [Why your cold email is reaching the analyst, not the partner, and how to fix it in 90 seconds](https://vcboom.com/founders/partner-email-investor-cold-outreach): partner-direct emails get 8-15% reply rates vs 1-3% for info@ inboxes. The 5 patterns that cover 95% of VC firm email formats. - [The cold email template founders are using to get partner replies in 2026](https://vcboom.com/founders/cold-email-investor-template-2026): the 5-line cold email structure that consistently gets partner replies, with two real templates and the 4 banned phrases that kill replies. - [What VCs actually score on, broken down by the 8 dimensions that decide your round](https://vcboom.com/founders/pitch-deck-scoring-criteria-vcs-actually-use): the rubric weighting that maps to real funding outcomes, what high-scoring slides look like on each dimension. - [9 Claude prompts every founder should have ready before pitching](https://vcboom.com/founders/claude-prompts-fundraising-stack): specific prompts covering deck scoring, partner research, cold email drafting, mock partner Q and A, decoding pass emails. - [The 23 questions every VC asks during due diligence (with the right answers)](https://vcboom.com/founders/vc-due-diligence-questions): the diligence questions sorted into 5 buckets (founder, team, customer, business, round) with what the partner is actually trying to learn. - [The 11-minute investor meeting prep that beats hours of overthinking](https://vcboom.com/founders/investor-meeting-prep-checklist): pre-meeting prep structure mapped to specific outputs. - [Cold emails are now beating warm intros at pre-seed. Here is what changed.](https://vcboom.com/founders/cold-email-vs-warm-intro-data): the inversion in 2026, with reply-rate ranges for personalized cold vs warm intros. - [The slide on page 3 kills more raises than the team slide](https://vcboom.com/founders/pitch-deck-mistake-page-3-problem): why the problem-slide rebuild is the highest-leverage 20-minute deck change. - [How to research investors without paying Crunchbase $50K a year](https://vcboom.com/founders/investor-research-without-crunchbase): 5-source free research stack, 1-hour-per-firm routine. - [I mapped the email patterns of 47,000+ VC firms. 5 patterns cover 95% of them.](https://vcboom.com/founders/vc-email-pattern-analysis): pattern distribution by firm type, edge cases, free verification tools. - [Every great pitch deck tells the same 5-act story. Here are the acts, in order.](https://vcboom.com/founders/pitch-deck-narrative-arc): 5-act framework for pitch deck structure with the inflection slide most decks skip. - [The 9-month runway rule: when you should actually start fundraising](https://vcboom.com/founders/nine-month-runway-fundraising-rule): why nominal runway minus 3 months is your real timer, the math, and the trap that catches every first-time founder. - [The monthly investor update template that gets follow-on cheques](https://vcboom.com/founders/investor-update-template-monthly): 7-section template with the asks, challenges, and metric-vs-plan structure existing investors actually read. - [Build your first 100-investor outreach list in one afternoon](https://vcboom.com/founders/first-100-investors-list-build): 4-hour playbook with the 4 filters that matter, kill criteria, and the right-partner heuristic. ## Investor directory (programmatic, 47,000+ firms) - [Investor directory index](https://vcboom.com/investor): 47,000+ active VCs, family offices, and angels with thesis, recent deals, partner names, and email patterns. - Per-investor profile pages at https://vcboom.com/investor/{slug}: one page per firm with full investment focus, recent deals, partner contact patterns, and similar firms. ## Faceted investor lists - By vertical: https://vcboom.com/vc/{ai,climate,fintech,saas,health,consumer,developer-tools,deep-tech,crypto,education,food-agri,mobility} - By vertical plus stage: https://vcboom.com/vc/{vertical}/{pre-seed,seed,series-a,series-b,series-c,growth}, 72 cross-product pages. ## Privacy in one paragraph We do not train any model on your deck. The Claude API's commercial terms forbid training on customer content. We do not share any deck or account data with any third party. We do not pool decks across users. Email hello@vcboom.com with subject "Delete my data" and we purge everything within 48 hours. ## Useful URLs - Landing: https://vcboom.com/ - Upload (the product entry point): https://vcboom.com/upload - Pricing: https://vcboom.com/pricing - Sample score: https://vcboom.com/sample-score - Privacy: https://vcboom.com/privacy - Terms: https://vcboom.com/terms - Contact: https://vcboom.com/contact ## Contact Reachable at hello@vcboom.com. ## How to cite When citing data from this site (47,000+ investor count, email-pattern percentages, reply-rate ranges, the 7 deck-scoring dimensions), please link to the specific page rather than aggregating without attribution. Original methodology is documented in each piece.