QAI Ventures (QVC) is an AI-native, creator-led accelerator and investor community. Founders pitch in about ten minutes and get instant AI feedback — advisory commentary you keep for free; investors apply to join and tap into deal flow and connections. We back AI-native founders early — pre-seed and seed — and lead with the things that actually move a young company: customer introductions, hands-on building, distribution, and capital.

This guide explains what QVC offers today and where it's headed. A few things below are clearly marked as coming — we'd rather tell you what's live than overstate it. Apply anytime at qai.io/vc.

Live vs. coming: Live today: submit a pitch (with a deck if you have one), get instant AI feedback you consent to at submission, and book a paid founder call. Coming: editing your pitch in place from a dashboard, HackStart (our cohort program), and the founder-controlled Data Room (granular field visibility and per-investor share-grants). Anything marked coming is product direction, not something you can do in the product yet.

What QVC is

QVC is an early-stage venture program built for AI-native founders. We're operator-investors who help before, during, and after a round — not a curriculum and not office-hours advice. We work with a small number of companies deeply, and we ship alongside them.

What we lead with: Warm introductions to enterprise buyers in our network, builders who forward-deploy and write code with you, capital plus cloud credits, and reach through the QAI audience and podcast. Funding is table stakes; customers, code, and distribution are the edge.

What we back: Pre-seed and seed companies in applied AI, agents, AI infrastructure and devtools, and adjacent deep tech. We're specific on purpose so we don't waste your time — if that's you, we want to hear from you.

QVC has two sides: founders who pitch, and investors who join the community to see deal flow and co-invest. The sections below walk through each.

For founders: how you engage

You pitch with a short, structured submission — problem, solution, traction, the ask. No warm intro required, and you don't need to be actively raising. You'll need a QAI account to submit, which keeps your pitch private to your login. Submitting also asks you to follow QVC on LinkedIn, GitHub, and X, and to consent to the instant AI feedback and accept the Terms and Privacy Policy.

• Pitch in about ten minutes. A guided form covering the essentials, plus optional detail on team, go-to-market, and your stack. You can attach a deck.
• Get instant AI feedback. When you submit, you get partner-grade commentary on the spot — strengths, gaps, and the highest-leverage questions to sharpen before you raise. It's advisory, it's yours to keep, and it's free.
• Strong fits hear from us directly. We follow up with strong fits about introductions, building help, and a potential check. A real person reviews — the AI feedback is never a yes or a no.
• Book a paid founder call. If you want focused, hands-on time, you can book a paid call with us directly after you submit.

One pitch per product, and a standing profile: If you're building more than one product, submit one pitch per product. More pitches don't improve your odds, so stay focused — the form reminds you of this. Your pitch is a standing profile, not a one-shot application: there's no deadline, and you can't withdraw or hard-delete it yourself — removal is a deliberate admin action on request (for example, a GDPR erasure). Editing your pitch in place from a dashboard is coming; today, reach out if something needs to change.

How the AI feedback works

AI feedback is opt-in by explicit consent: you actively check its box when you submit, and that consent (together with accepting the Terms and Privacy Policy) is part of submitting a pitch. It is advisory commentary to help you sharpen your pitch — never an investment decision, funding offer, or due diligence. Receiving feedback does not mean QVC has reviewed, accepted, or declined your pitch, and no funding or admission decision is ever made solely by the AI. A person is always in the loop for any real decision.

What you get: opt in and we run your pitch through the model and return written feedback right away, in four parts — genuine strengths tied to what you wrote, concrete gaps and the questions an investor will ask, the three highest-leverage things to sharpen before you raise, and one honest verdict on where the pitch stands today. It shows on screen the moment you submit, and a copy is emailed to you.

Free: there is no charge for AI feedback and nothing to upgrade to — no trial, just free. It is a founder-only feature; investors apply separately to join QVC.

What the model sees: Only the narrative parts of your pitch — problem, solution, market, traction, team, go-to-market, your AI tools and tech stack, and your deck text if you attach one — go to a third-party large language model (currently Google's Gemini) to generate the feedback.

What it never sees: Your sensitive commercial data is withheld by design: exact raise amounts, valuation and cap-table percentages, monthly spend figures, your contact details, and any internal score are never part of the AI request. They stay in your QVC record. The fields sent are a fixed, reviewed allowlist — a new field isn't sent unless it's deliberately added to that list.

Get the most out of it: the feedback is only as good as your inputs. Be specific in the narrative fields, attach your deck so its text is read in, and name your real risks — the model never sees your exact financials or cap table anyway, so spend that space on the business. Treat the three questions as homework; being able to answer them crisply is most of what raising well looks like. As your story sharpens you can submit a fresh pitch — more pitches do not improve your odds, but a better pitch does.

For the full terms governing AI Feedback, see the AI Feedback clause in our Fair Use of AI terms. Those terms are the legal source of truth; this guide is the plain-language overview.

For investors: how you engage

If you're an angel, fund, syndicate, or family office, you can apply to join the QVC investor community. You'll share who you are and how you invest — type, check size, stage focus, sectors, thesis, and how you add value — so we can match you to the right founders.

• Apply to join. A short application, submitted from your QAI account.
• We review and approve. Every investor is reviewed by our team before being approved to interact with founders — it keeps the community trusted on both sides.
• Deal flow and connections. Once approved, you can see relevant founders and express interest or offer mentorship through the QVC network.

Like a founder pitch, your investor application is a standing profile — there is no deadline and no self-serve withdraw. You can submit additional applications, and editing your application in place from a dashboard is coming; today, reach out if your thesis or focus changes.

Your privacy: a VC sees nothing you haven't shared

Your pitch is private to QVC. We don't share your submission, and you can request deletion at any time. QVC's team can see your full pitch to triage and help; investors cannot — they see only what you choose to share.

The commitment: A VC sees nothing the founder hasn't shared. Today, your pitch is confidential to QVC by default — there is no self-serve way for an investor to see it. The granular, founder-controlled sharing — choosing exactly which fields go to a specific investor versus a public profile — ships with the Data Room (coming).

Coming: the Data Room. A founder-controlled view over your pitch where you set each field to private, investor-only, or public, grant specific investors access, and present structured fundraising detail (prior rounds and your current raise) in coarse ranges rather than exact figures. The most sensitive fields — cap-table percentages, exact spend, your contact, any internal score — stay private and can't be opted into sharing. Until the Data Room lands, sharing beyond QVC is handled deliberately, not via self-serve controls.

Two trust boundaries stay separate by design: what you share with an investor, and what the AI sees when you consent to feedback. The AI allowlist is independent of any future sharing controls — sensitive financials and contact details are never sent to the model regardless.

HackStart: the cohort program (coming)

HackStart is QVC's planned accelerator program — a YC-style cohort on a faster, public cadence. It's not yet live; this section is product direction so you know where things are headed.

• A pitched founder would opt into a specific cohort from inside the Startup Portal — a separate, deadline-bound step that doesn't touch your rolling pitch.
• Cohorts are planned as roughly twelve-week launch sprints, with participants shipping and publicly launching something each week.
• Weekly launches would be ranked on a leaderboard, but ranking never eliminates anyone — low rank just means keep building. It is the cadence and the motivation, not a cut.

Once HackStart is live, your everyday pitch stays rolling and always open; only the cohort step would carry a deadline. Miss one cohort window and your pitch stays live so you can enter the next.

How to apply

Everything starts at qai.io/vc.

• Founders: choose Apply to QVC, sign in, and pitch in about ten minutes. You'll consent to the instant AI feedback as part of submitting, and get that commentary to keep.
• Investors: choose Join the investor network, sign in, and tell us how you invest. We'll review and follow up.
• Not raising yet? Pitch anyway. The feedback is useful pre-raise, and we'd rather meet you early.

For the legal terms on AI Feedback, see Fair Use of AI. For platform terms and privacy, see Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.