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CRACKED VCA BIAS-FREE TECH & VENTURE ECOSYSTEM

Traditional VC bias burns $4T in potential each year so we built the first meritocratic public market for cultivating outliers, aimed at recovering a portion of that capital from its fiery fate.

CRVCT provides an equitable, data-driven path from training to funding for talent while simultaneously producing superior deal flow for investors by de-risking our founders + flagging high-potential deals the traditional system routinely filters out.

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PROBLEM

VC BIAS FOMENTS FIDUCIARY NEGLIGENCE

Rife with uncertainty, traditional VC relies on a narrow set of proxies: Privilege, Proximity, Pedigree, Prestige, & Pattern, to quickly filter talent and de-risk investments. A practice that excludes the very talent who statistically deliver the greatest returns and possess the highest growth and earning potential.

According to "The Trillion-Dollar Blind Spot", a report published by Morgan Stanley (2019)—
VC's entrenched systemic exclusion costs the US $4.4 trillion in missed innovations annually.

AND THE DATA IS DAMNING:

85% of all VC funding goes to founders who attended 1 of these Top 3 universities: Stanford, Harvard, and MIT
Harvard Business School - 2019
75% of all venture-backed companies fail to return the investments they raised from their investors.
Correlation Ventures, 2019
95% of VCs invest in founders who look like them, perpetuating systemic exclusion
Diversity VC Impact Report - 2023
Startups with diverse founding teams generate 19% higher revenue but receive 35% less funding
McKinsey & Company, 2023
90% of VC deals come from warm introductions, creating an insurmountable barrier for outsiders
First Round Capital State of Startups - 2022
Deals sourced from personal networks underperform cold outreach deals by 25% in terms of returns
Wharton School of Business - 2021
Startups founded by women generate 2X the revenue per dollar invested than those founded by men
Harvard Business Review - 2020
Despite being ~50% of the population/workforce, women-led startups receive only 2.3% of VC funding
PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor - 2022
Black founders receive less than 1% of venture capital funding despite being roughly 15% of the population
Crunchbase: Black & Latinx Founders - 2020
0.3% of venture capital goes to Black women founders
Crunchbase: Black & Latinx Founders - 2020
Only 12% of venture partners are women, and less than 3% are Black or Latino
DIVERSITY VC - 2022
ANALYSIS

A FORTRESS WITH A MOATTHE STORY OF THE CASCADE OF EXCLUSION

Venture capital is a fortress; its bias is the gate, and its moat is the tech industry itself.
For outliers, the path to funding is an unforgiving gauntlet.

While VC bias is the core problem we solve for, the hostile tech landscape, with its prohibitive costs, exclusive networks, and disjointed services, is a preliminary layer of systemic exclusion that we also solve for.

Analysis Section
OPPORTUNITY

THE $4T BLIND SPOT

Were the market to invest in WMBEs proportionate to their share of the labor force, it would capture the $4.4 Trillion in missed innovation currently being left on the table each year.

$240B+

Average Annual Deployment U.S.

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$60 Billion
Successful Ventures (25%)
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$180 Billion
Failed Ventures (75%)
$4.4 Trillion
Total Addressable Market (TAM)
How $4.4T is Calculated:
Potential gross receipts (If WMBEs matched labor force %):$6.8T
Current output of Women & Minority-Owned Business Enterprises:$2.4T
Missed opportunity ($6.8T - $2.4T):$4.4T
MARKET

THE $39B PORTION

The $4.4T blind spot is our mandate. Our focus is the high-potential talent being overlooked and the forward-thinking investor open to a smarter, data-driven approach to de-risking deals.

We are targeting a $39B Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM), comprising:

~10M

US-Based "Outliers"*

The national population of Gatekept and Overlooked talent.

165K

Accredited Investors

A verified pool of investors already aligned with our mission.1

~400K

Black Women

A critical cohort pushed out of the workforce, representing immense, immediate talent.2

This is not a theoretical opportunity. It is a defined market of users and capital, systematically excluded by traditional VC and waiting for the platform we've built.

SOLUTION

CRVCT: PROOF OVER PROXIES

CRVCT is a vertically integrated solution that replaces VC's outdated, biased, and fiducially negligent processes with an algorithmic, meritocratic, and fiducially diligent ecosystem, anchored by our Proof-of-Worth consensus, enabling our members to build an on-chain reputation that we algorithmically convert into two powerful outputs:

FOR TALENT & FOUNDERS

Converts non-economic capital (hustle, skill, insight, and impact) into $CRVCT utility token, creating tangible ecosystem equity.

FOR STEWARDS & INVESTORS

Generates a venture-grade Signal Score, de-risking investments by replacing biased proxies with verifiable performance data.

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