As a multi-sided marketplace, Bizblip serves three customer segments: founders, VCs, and ESOs — We provide founders with access to relevant ecosystem information and resorces, VCs with the data and tools they need to evaluate startups, and ESOs with the data they need to justify their funding and evaluate their cohort companies’ growth.
Our Platform
We help founders find resources, VCs streamline and qualify deal flow, and ESOs track their cohort members growth, all within one integrated ecosystem.
The Ripper
Our AI-enabled pitch deck processing and deal-flow management service:
- Extract and verify key data points
- Match startups with VC fund-specific investment criteria
- Save analysts from having to read every deck
TrackFlow
Our comprehensive ESO cohort management and growth tracking service:
- Efficiently organize and monitor cohort companies
- Proactively identify and document founder achievements through regular check-ins and interviews
- Amplify cohort success stories through streamlined content distribution channels
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Our Story
Paul Riat, bizblip founder
Bizblip founder Paul Riat brings decades of experience as a seasoned journalist and news producer to his entrepreneurial journey. In the early 2000s, frustrated with traditional news funding models and inspired by the innovation he witnessed daily, Paul took a bold step—investing his life savings into a startup aimed at transforming the media industry.
This first venture saw Paul immersing himself in the business ecosystem: attending events, building a network of connections, and producing quality news content. Despite securing subscriptions and sponsorships, the business ultimately faltered due to lack of product–market fit and resource limitations—a hard-learned lesson that would prove invaluable.
After years of thoughtful reflection and strategic recalibration, Paul launched his second venture with a refined focus: empowering founders with the critical resources, information, and ecosystem connections he wished he’d had during his first entrepreneurial chapter. This time, Paul didn’t just participate in the startup community—he actively shaped it by:
- Hosting impactful events designed for meaningful connection
- Organizing pitch competitions where founders received crucial feedback to refine their funding approaches
- Providing targeted resources that addressed the specific challenges he had encountered
Throughout this process, which was an extensive research period, Paul cultivated deep relationships with venture capitalists and entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs). Drawing on his unique combination of software design expertise and journalistic background, he recognized an opportunity to create value by delivering enhanced data insights to these stakeholders—ultimately creating a flywheel that connected promising startups with the funding and other resources they needed to thrive.