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COMPASS operates with an investor lens from the start. We convene leading venture capital firms early to provide candid feedback on curated technologies, test customer demand, and refine use cases before companies are formed.
Backed by America's leading deep-tech investors
Why leading deep-tech investors are partnering with COMPASS.
Differentiated deal flow from the national labs, with the diligence already done. More than 40 venture firms reviewed the opportunities in our first batch.
Curated pipeline access
Every technology in our pipeline originates from the national lab complex, built on billions in federal R&D investment with IP protections that create real barriers to entry. We curate a small number of opportunities using investor input and market signals, so what reaches you has already passed through a commercial relevance filter.
The right team for each venture
We put together the best possible team for each venture, drawing on industry operators, the inventing scientists, and other experts as the company needs. The team runs a structured validation sprint before any company is formed, so by the time they raise, much of the technical and commercial risk is already addressed.
Deep due diligence
Every opportunity we advance comes with a standardized diligence package: structured customer interviews, competitive analysis, market sizing, and a clear commercialization pathway, developed in partnership with SRI International. It's designed to save your team time and surface the questions that matter.
Strategic capital
This isn't a newsletter with deal links. Our capital network is intentionally focused, not a mass mailing list. You engage early: advising on problem spaces, reviewing diligence, and meeting founders before companies are formed. When the timing is right, you have the opportunity to invest in teams you've watched develop.
Where investors meet the national labs.
The most promising national lab technologies, matched to what your firm invests in.
Technologies from across the national laboratories, grouped by theme and matched to your firm, so your time goes to the ones closest to what you invest in.
Read the full walkthroughExpanding our investor platformEngagement timeline.
Investors are involved at every stage, from advising on problem spaces to getting to know the companies before they raise.
Problem spaces
We define the problem spaces with input from our venture network, so the search starts from markets investors already care about.
Lab technologies
Partner laboratories put forward technologies against those problems, and we screen them for commercial potential.
Investor review
Investors review the shortlist on our platform and meet the research teams at Waypoints. Their feedback informs which companies COMPASS builds.
Read the Waypoints recapCompany building
Each company builds as part of a cohort, with investors advising, making introductions, and getting to know the team before it raises.
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Investors in the network get access to the platform and review each new batch of national lab technologies from the start. They also get an early look at our portfolio companies as they prepare to raise.
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Access to investment opportunities is not guaranteed and is subject to availability, qualification, and timing. COMPASS does not provide investment advice.