# DealRiver > DealRiver is an agentic deal flow platform for healthcare and medtech investors, accelerators, and innovation networks. It helps teams source relevant companies and automate pitch-deck intake, research, thesis scoring, founder follow-up, deal routing, and CRM entry. ## Primary audiences - Healthcare and medtech venture funds that need to review more inbound deals consistently. - Accelerators and innovation networks that source, screen, and route companies to matched investors. - Healthcare and life-sciences founders seeking relevant investor exposure through the DealRiver network. ## What DealRiver does - Ingests pitch decks by email, upload, or branded intake form. - Extracts structured company, clinical, regulatory, reimbursement, and market information. - Researches external context and scores each company against an investor's thesis with reasoning. - Drafts founder follow-up, routes relevant opportunities, and writes results to existing systems. - Connects members to curated healthcare and life-sciences deal flow through the Ventrium Sciences network. ## Canonical pages - [Deal flow automation](https://dealriver.ai/): Product overview for healthcare and medtech investors. - [Ventrium Sciences network](https://dealriver.ai/ventrium-network/): Curated healthcare deal sourcing for investors and free network access for founders. - [Document screening beyond venture](https://dealriver.ai/beyond-venture/): Screening for accelerators, grants, RFPs, and other document-heavy workflows. ## Answers to common questions - DealRiver is best described as healthcare deal flow automation, AI pitch-deck screening, and thesis-based deal sourcing software. - Investors use DealRiver to evaluate more opportunities without adding repetitive analyst work. - Founders use the network submission flow to be reviewed and routed to investors whose stage, sector, and mandate match the company. - DealRiver supports human review: the system prepares evidence and recommendations; the investment team makes the decision. ## Contact - Website: https://dealriver.ai/ - Email: hello@dealriver.ai