What We Ship, in Order.
Every release across scoring, milestone escrow, the expert marketplace and accelerator tooling, reverse chronological.
- v2.4
Public Launch and Secondary Marketplace Beta
FounderGrade is now publicly available across MENA and emerging markets, alongside an early look at a secondary marketplace for accredited investors.
Added- Secondary marketplace beta: accredited investors can post and bid on secondary positions in funded companies
- Public company and expert directories, searchable without an account
- Regulatory posture page documenting our DFSA Innovation Testing Licence pursuit
Improved- Onboarding flow shortened from nine steps to five for founders and investors
- Milestone escrow release notifications now include the verifying expert's rationale
Fixed- Corrected a rounding error in the 1% founder success fee shown at deal close
- Resolved a display bug where blind review scores could appear before both experts submitted
- v2.3
Calibration v2 for the Expert Marketplace
A tighter calibration pass for expert reviewers, plus rate transparency improvements across the marketplace.
Added- Inter-rater agreement scoring across all eight rubric dimensions, visible on each expert's profile
- Appeals analytics dashboard so experts can see overturn rates on their own reviews
- Directory rate cards now show the full expert rate plus the platform service fee side by side
Improved- Blind double-review matching now weights sector depth over general availability
- Expert payout statements itemise each engagement's rate, service fee and net amount
Fixed- Fixed a case where a declined blind review could still hold a slot in the matching queue
- v2.2
Accelerator White Label v2
Accelerators running cohorts on FounderGrade get custom domains, deeper LP reporting and clearer cohort benchmarking.
Added- Custom domains and palette controls for accelerator-branded surfaces
- One-click LP pack exports covering cohort scores, milestones and funding status
- Cohort-wide benchmark reporting against the same eight-dimension rubric used platform-wide
Improved- Demo day tooling now supports multiple cohorts running concurrently
- Accelerator billing simplified to a single monthly rate starting from $199 per organisation
Fixed- Fixed a permissions gap that let removed cohort members retain dashboard access for up to an hour
- v2.1
Pitch Builder AI Assist and Data Room v2
Founder-facing tooling gets a narrative assist and the data room is rebuilt for granular access control.
Added- Inline AI suggestions for tightening narrative and traction sections of a pitch
- Data room v2 with granular per-document permissions, watermarks and viewer analytics
Improved- Founder score history chart now annotates which milestone or review triggered each change
Fixed- Fixed an issue where uploaded data room files larger than 20MB failed silently
- v2.0
On-Chain Score Anchoring
Every issued score certificate is now hashed and notarised on-chain at the moment of issuance, alongside compliance groundwork for our DIFC posture.
Added- Score certificates hashed and notarised on-chain at issuance, verifiable independent of FounderGrade
- Compliance reporting workspace for KYC, KYB and jurisdiction restriction checks
Improved- Milestone escrow release confirmations now display the on-chain transaction reference inline
Fixed- Fixed a timing issue where a released milestone tranche could take up to ten minutes to reflect in the founder dashboard
- v1.9
Capital Call Automation
Multi-sig approvals and SLA timers make milestone-based capital calls faster to action for both sides of a deal.
Added- Automated capital call notices with 2-of-3 multisig approval flow
- SLA timers on milestone review so pending releases never go silent
Improved- Investor portfolio view now groups capital calls by deal and shows outstanding tranches at a glance
Fixed- Fixed a bug that duplicated notification emails when a milestone was resubmitted after a dispute
- v1.5
Founder Score Rubric v1.5
The first major revision to the eight-dimension scoring rubric since launch, based on calibration data from over a thousand blind reviews.
Added- Weighted sub-criteria within Traction and Financials to reduce reviewer disagreement
- Founder-facing rubric breakdown showing exactly how each dimension is assessed
Improved- Blind double review turnaround time reduced through better sector-to-expert matching
Fixed- Fixed a scoring display issue where a Risk dimension of zero could render as blank instead of zero
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