FounderMatch is an AI-powered matchmaking platform that connects startup founders with investors — similar to a dating app, but for funding and collaboration.
🔗 Live Demo: https://founder-match-mrabs1o62-rama542s-projects.vercel.app/
FounderMatch helps users:
- Discover potential investors or founders
- Swipe and match like a dating app
- Chat after matching
- Get AI-based evaluation scores
- Simulate investor-founder conversations
The idea is inspired by combining:
👉 Tinder-style matching
👉 LinkedIn-style networking
👉 AI-powered evaluation
- Signup / Login system
- Role-based users:
- Founder
- Investor
- Local storage-based login persistence
- Swipe right → Match
- Swipe left → Pass
- Smart UI animations
- Founder ↔ Investor matching
- Real-time match notification
- Simulated AI chat between users
- Investor / Founder persona-based replies
- Investors take an AI interview
- AI evaluates based on:
- Experience
- Clarity
- Founder friendliness
- Decision speed
➡️ Generates a Investor Quality Score (1–100)
- AI-based evaluation of startups:
- Market potential
- Team strength
- Problem clarity
- Overall score
- Matches overview
- Score insights
- Chat access
- Activity stats
- User profile with badges
- Role-based UI (Founder / Investor)
- React (Vite)
- JavaScript (ES6+)
- Inline CSS styling
- Google Gemini API (or Claude / OpenAI configurable)
- LocalStorage (for authentication)
- Vercel