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Eliminating human bias
from investment decisions

Unbiased Ventures is an AI-powered venture capital fund that replaces intuition-driven deal selection with deterministic evaluation, science-based founder profiling, and structured entrepreneurial expertise. We invest at the earliest stages where founder quality matters most — and where conventional due diligence fails most often.

Fund I Vehicle
Pre-Seed / Seed Stage Focus

Venture capital has a decision-quality crisis

The venture industry's track record on founder selection is structurally poor. The evidence is clear: the people behind the company matter more than the pitch — and the tools used to evaluate them have not kept pace.

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Startups fail from founder friction

65% of startups fail because of friction in the founder team. This dwarfs the failure caused by lack of product-market fit.

EQ outpredicts IQ for founders

Emotional intelligence is twice as predictive of entrepreneurial success compared to cognitive ability. Yet no standard VC due diligence process measures it.

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Peer-reviewed sources underpin our model

Our profiling methodology is grounded in published research from teams at PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, and multiple university research programs — not pattern matching or gut feel.

Three pillars of unbiased decision-making

Every investment decision passes through three independent evaluation layers. No single layer can override the others. Consensus across all three is required to invest.

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AI-Powered Identification

Unsupervised topic modeling identifies emerging industries and niches. Mixture-of-Expert networks, trained on historical venture data from Crunchbase, PitchBook, USPTO, and academic sources, score startup promise and optimal entry timing. The system identifies where to look before anyone starts looking.

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Science-Based Founder Profiling

Proprietary indirect profiling extracts psychological trait signals from public digital footprints. Direct assessments built on cross-battery instruments validated against 400+ major startup failures measure success traits, risk traits, and team dynamics. Not static profiling — precision profiling: the right founder team, for the right industry, at the right stage.

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Entrepreneurial Expertise & Consensus

Managing partners with startup experience, scaling expertise, and two granted tech patents apply structured due diligence informed by — but independent of — the AI and psychology layers. The human judgment layer has red-flag authority.

From signal to conviction in six steps

Each stage narrows the funnel through independent verification. The pipeline is deterministic: the same inputs produce the same outputs regardless of who runs them.

AI Layer

Industry identification

Emerging niches surfaced via unsupervised topic modeling on live market data.

Evaluation

Structured scoring (Jaffar et al.)

Systematic multi-dimensional evaluation framework applied to every incoming opportunity before entering the psychology layers.

AI Layer

Startup scoring

MoE network ranks candidates across 7 dimensions against a benchmark database of 6,000+ evaluated decks of unicorns, finalists and winners of startup competitions.

Psychology

Indirect profiling

Digital footprint analysis maps founder personality traits against predictive benchmarks.

Psychology

Direct assessment

Two-phase psychometric instrument: success traits, then risk/failure traits. Team dynamics scored.

Due Diligence

GP & LP consensus

Managing Partners, GP and LP (opt-in) apply expertise-based judgment with red-flag authority over all prior layers.

The Startup Doctor: coaching founders to scale

Pablo Barriga brings 15 years of organizational psychology expertise into venture capital. Portfolio founders receive structured development — not advice, but evidence-based intervention calibrated to their specific psychological profile and their company's stage.

Evaluating

Psychological strengths and fit-to-scale assessment. Leaders-industry/market fit analysis — because selling to a hospital is not the same as selling to a techie. Communication patterns, decision-making style, and cognitive flexibility mapped.

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De-Risking

Early detection of wrongful intent, deception patterns, and management friction signals. Cross-battery instruments based on analysis of 400+ major startup failures including Theranos, WeWork, FTX, and Babylon Health.

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Developing

Leadership team balance optimization and investor-founders alignment. Systemic team profiling for friction and miscommunication potential. Ongoing coaching to translate psychological insights into execution performance.

"It is not about static profiling. Visionaries are often 'crazy' according to common sense or standard tests. It is about precision profiling: the right founder team, for the right industry, at the right stage."

The team

Pablo Barriga

The Startup Doctor

HSG-MBA and MSc. Psychology. 15 years at Novartis HQ (Switzerland and Barcelona). Thousands of clients profiled and developed. Bridges psychology and business performance, turning intuition into measurable science. Five languages.

Adriele Rocha

The Tech Witch

Mechatronic Engineer. Technology thought leader from NASA, Airbus, and John Deere into VC datalakes, ML, and deterministic/agentic AI. ISO Certified Quality Engineer. GDPR officer and CISO. Four languages.

Peter Weisz

The Hustler

Serial entrepreneur with MBA from LMU Munich. Built and scaled businesses including the car flags of the 2006 World Cup and led the turnaround of a CHF 38M ARR operation. Two granted tech patents. JHU certified Agentic AI engineer. Five languages.

One GP with startup experience, one exit
Techstars alumni (Bootcamp & Demo Day)
HSG MBA, specialization in Systemic Psychology
M.Sc in Behavioral Psychology
de Vigier Swiss Top 50
TEDx Speaker, 15,000 attendees
Two granted tech patents
JHU certified Agentic AI engineer

Network access

Deal flow through direct management team relationships with leading accelerators and institutions.

Established relationships for downstream funding rounds.

Learn more about Fund I

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