Eir, Inc.

Eir is a Tokyo-based company building AI evaluation systems: AI that assesses whether a claim is supported by credible evidence and rejects it when it is not. The company’s latest product, Founder Studio, applies this technology to one of the highest-stakes evaluations most companies ever face: the one an investor conducts before writing a cheque. Founder Studio guides early-stage founders through the critical questions investors actually ask, requires each answer to be backed by external evidence rather than mere assertions, evaluates the credibility of that evidence, and adds the information to the company’s data room once it passes scrutiny. Eir’s evaluation technology originated in automated software testing, where the key question is whether code does what it claims to do. The same underlying technology now helps answer the question of how well a founder understands their startup.