Kentucky's state-backed Startup Ecosystem GPS — giving every founder a professional AI-powered data room from their first idea through their first raise, powered by DealVue.
startups guided across Kentucky
venture capital deployed through the regional ecosystem
Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development
Amplify Louisville — funded by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development — is the state's flagship startup ecosystem platform. Its Startup Ecosystem GPS helps founders at every stage navigate the local venture landscape: funding sources, mentors, pilots, accelerator programs, and capital connections across Greater Louisville and Kentucky.
The challenge Amplify faced was the same one every ecosystem operator faces: founders came in with great ideas and left with a list of resources. The missing piece was persistent, professional infrastructure — a data room that followed each founder from idea through raise, and that gave the Amplify team visibility into who was actually becoming investor-ready.
Amplify is backed by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development — one of the largest state-funded entrepreneurial support programs in the region. Every tool in the platform is free for founders.
The Amplify GPS is built around a 5-stage venture pathway — from first idea through first institutional raise. DealVue is embedded at every stage, giving founders the right tools for where they are right now.
The platform connects founders with the full Kentucky venture ecosystem — including Keyhorse Capital, KYx Velocity, Vogt Awards, and a network of angel investors and EIRs.
Every Amplify founder gets a DealVue Secure Space from the moment they join the program. One link, no investor login required, with device-level verification and a full audit trail.
Clara AI maps each founder's documents against a weighted checklist of institutional investor expectations — 60% must-haves, 30% should-haves, 10% nice-to-haves — and surfaces a 0–10 readiness score in under 4 minutes.
Founders can model their cap table, run dilution scenarios, and generate a clean cap table document for investor review — all inside DealVue, without third-party spreadsheet tools.
Built-in financial modeling tools give Amplify founders institutional-grade financial presentation — ARR, MRR, burn rate, and runway — without hiring a CFO.
Clara reviews each founder's pitch deck, financials, and data room for gaps and inconsistencies — the same 7-agent analysis used by founders raising from institutional VCs, available to every Amplify cohort member.
When founders share their data room with investors or EIRs in the Amplify network, they get page-by-page time tracking, re-open alerts, and a full audit trail of engagement.
The founder answers a few questions about their company and stage. Amplify GPS maps them to the right resources — and DealVue creates their data room automatically.
As the founder uploads their first documents, Clara AI generates a Deal Readiness Score and flags what's missing — long before any investor sees the room.
When an EIR or investor in the Amplify network asks for the data room, the founder shares a single VuePort link — no login, professionally presented, fully tracked.
The most powerful thing about the Amplify × DealVue partnership is timing. Most data room tools reach founders when they're already in a room with a VC. DealVue reaches Amplify founders at idea stage — before they know what goes in a data room, before they know what investors will ask.
That means by the time an Amplify founder is ready to raise, their data room is already built, Clara-analyzed, and scored. The investor meeting becomes a confirmation, not a scramble.
For Amplify, it means cohort outcomes are measurable from day one — not just at demo day. Program managers can see which founders are building toward fundability, and focus mentor time where it has the most impact.
“DealVue is the infrastructure layer that turns Amplify from a resource directory into a fundable founder pipeline. Every company in our ecosystem now arrives at investor conversations with a professional, AI-scored data room — not a Google Drive folder.”
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