Early Stage VC & Founder

Kevin Chavanne  • Peerlist

Ugly Baby is a venture capital intelligence platform designed to help founders understand how investors actually evaluate startups. The platform provides institutional-style investment memo generation, fundraising analysis, and venture-style startup assessments based on real VC frameworks and decision-making processes.Built by experienced European venture capital professionals, Ugly Baby gives founders direct access to the same logic, structure, and evaluation criteria used internally by investors during sourcing, due diligence, and investment committee discussions.The platform helps startups improve investor readiness through tools covering market sizing, fundraising strategy, dilution modeling, business model analysis, venture scalability assessment, and investment narrative construction. Ugly Baby also includes a verified directory of over 2,500 investors and ecosystem participants to help founders navigate fundraising and ecosystem discovery.Rather than focusing on pitch hype, Ugly Baby focuses on helping founders understand the realities of venture capital decision-making, including what investors look for, where startups fail investor scrutiny, and how companies can improve their venture credibility.