Make better investment decisions with competitive intelligence. From pre-investment due diligence to post-investment portfolio monitoring - assess competitive moats, validate positioning claims, and track portfolio company performance.
You're evaluating a startup. The founder claims "We're the only company doing X in space Y. Our competitive moat is Z." But is it true? You need to validate these claims. The cost of missed red flags in due diligence could be huge.
"We don't have real competitors" or "We're 2 years ahead" often doesn't match reality. You need objective competitive intelligence, not founder optimism.
Is the competitive advantage real? Can incumbents replicate it? How sustainable is differentiation? Hard to assess without deep competitive analysis.
You have 15-30 portfolio companies. You can't manually track competitive performance for each one continuously. Discover threats too late.
Manual research misses competitors, alternative solutions, and indirect threats. You discover 3 similar companies after investing. Your competitive landscape is incomplete.
Systematic competitive intelligence for investment decisions and portfolio monitoring. Validate claims before investing. Monitor competitive threats after investing. Make data-driven investment decisions with comprehensive competitive intelligence. CIx gives investors the competitive intelligence they need for better investment outcomes.
Validate competitive claims before writing checks. Assess true competitive landscape, not founder's optimistic version. Comprehensive competitive analysis in days, not weeks.
Is the competitive advantage real and defensible? CIx helps assess competitive moats systematically with frameworks for evaluating technology, data, network effects, and brand advantages.
Track all portfolio companies' competitive performance continuously. Early warning system for competitive threats across your entire portfolio. Support 15-30 companies without additional headcount.
Identify M&A opportunities, market consolidation patterns, and strategic acquisition targets. Spot exit opportunities and help portfolio companies make strategic acquisitions.
You're in week 2 of due diligence. You've reviewed financials, talked to references, and met the team. Now you need to validate competitive positioning. The founder says "We're 2 years ahead" and "Our moat is our proprietary technology." But how do you validate these claims systematically?
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Limited time for competitive research. You have 2-4 weeks for full due diligence. Competitive analysis is one of many work streams. Time pressure leads to incomplete competitive assessment.
Founder's claims are optimistic. "We don't have real competitors" or "We're 2 years ahead" often doesn't match reality. You need objective competitive intelligence, not founder optimism.
Can't assess true moat defensibility. Is the competitive advantage real? Can incumbents replicate it? How sustainable is differentiation? Hard to assess without deep competitive analysis.
Incomplete competitive landscape. Manual research misses competitors, alternative solutions, and indirect threats. You discover 3 similar companies after investing.
AI-powered competitor identification finds similar companies across dimensions: product, market, technology, business model. Uncover competitors founders don't mention.
Validate founder's positioning claims against actual competitive landscape. See if "unique" claims hold up to scrutiny.
Systematic framework for assessing competitive advantages: technology moat, data moat, network effects, brand, switching costs.
Complete competitive landscape visualization: direct competitors, adjacent players, potential entrants, substitute products.
You invested 6 months ago. The company was strong competitively. But markets move fast. Has the competitive landscape changed? Are new competitors emerging? Are there competitive threats to your investment thesis? You're not tracking this systematically across your portfolio.
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You have 15-30 portfolio companies. You can't manually track competitive performance for each one continuously.
You discover competitive threats during board meetings or when metrics decline. By then, damage is done.
Portfolio company presents metrics in board meetings. Are they winning or losing competitively? You don't have competitive performance data.
Competitor emerges as strategic acquisition target for portfolio company. You discover it too late.
Monitor all portfolio companies' competitive landscapes automatically. Early warning system for competitive threats across portfolio.
Track how portfolio companies perform vs. competitors: market share signals, competitive mention trends, relative positioning.
Identify emerging competitors, well-funded new entrants, or incumbent moves that threaten portfolio companies.
Provide portfolio companies with competitive intelligence for board meetings. Enhance board conversations with competitive context.
Being a value-add investor requires more than board meetings and introductions. Portfolio companies need competitive intelligence. Give them CIx access and provide instant competitive intelligence value-add beyond capital.
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Portfolio companies ask for help with competitive strategy, but you don't have comprehensive competitive intelligence to share.
You want to bring more value than just capital, but competitive intelligence tools are too expensive to provide to entire portfolio.
Board meetings focus on metrics, but lack competitive context. Are portfolio companies winning or losing competitively?
Give portfolio companies CIx access. Instant competitive intelligence value-add beyond capital for all portfolio companies.
Bring competitive intelligence to board conversations. Strategic competitive discussions, not just metrics review.
Identify strategic acquisition targets that strengthen portfolio company competitive positions.
Share competitive intelligence across portfolio (where appropriate): market trends, competitive patterns, strategic approaches.
Comprehensive competitive intelligence leads to better due diligence, smarter investment decisions, and enhanced portfolio support:
Complete comprehensive competitive landscape analysis in 1-2 days instead of 1-2 weeks. Faster, more thorough due diligence means better investment decisions.
Monitor competitive performance across entire portfolio continuously. Track 15-30 portfolio companies without adding headcount or resources.
Investing in companies with real competitive advantages drives better returns. Comprehensive competitive diligence improves portfolio and fund performance.
Investment Partners
Make better investment decisions with comprehensive competitive intelligence
Portfolio Directors
Monitor competitive performance across 15-30 portfolio companies
Investment Analysts
Complete due diligence competitive analysis in days, not weeks
As an investor, you need competitive intelligence across every function of your portfolio companies. See how different teams use CIx:
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