Common questions.

Loturo is a research workspace for venture investors and analysts who want to find deep tech companies before they appear on Crunchbase, Pitchbook, or in the press.

It aggregates grant data from six government databases across the US, UK, EU, and Canada — enriches every record with TRL scores, taxonomy labels, and AI summaries — and lets you search, profile, and research companies from a single interface.

Crunchbase and Dealroom track companies after they've raised venture capital. Loturo tracks companies before that — while they're still funded by government grants and largely invisible to the VC market.

The data source is different (government grant databases, not press releases or investor filings), the enrichment is different (TRL scores, science taxonomy, PI contacts), and the workflow is built around research, not CRM.

Deep tech investors and analysts at venture funds, family offices, and corporate venture arms who want to identify companies at an earlier stage than traditional deal sourcing allows.

It's particularly useful for funds focused on defence, climate, biotech, space, energy, and advanced materials — sectors where the technology de-risks through government programmes before reaching the private market.

Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is a 1–9 scale developed by NASA and adopted by the EU and UK government programmes. TRL 1 is basic research; TRL 9 is a proven system operating in a real environment.

Loturo assigns a TRL score to every grant using an LLM trained on the abstract, agency, and programme context. It lets you filter for companies at a specific readiness stage — for example, TRL 5–7, where technology is proven in a lab but not yet commercialised.

Deep Research is a one-click feature that runs a full investigation on any company or grant and returns a structured investment brief. It draws on grant abstracts, public filings, and web sources to produce a technology summary, market context, competitive signals, team analysis, and an investment thesis.

It's designed to replace the first 2–3 hours of manual research a analyst would do before an initial call.

All grant data is sourced from public government databases: SBIR/STTR (US, 12 federal agencies), CORDIS (EU, Horizon Europe and legacy programmes), InnovateUK / UKRI (UK), NIH RePORTER (US), IRAP (Canada), and NSF Awards (US).

Capital data comes from SEC Form D private placement filings. Company identity data is linked using Companies House (UK) and SAM.gov (US).

The database is refreshed daily at 02:00 UTC. Most government grant databases publish new awards within days of the decision. SEC Form D filings typically appear within 15 days of a capital event.

Historical coverage goes back to 2003 for SBIR and to the early Horizon Europe programmes for CORDIS.

TRL scores, taxonomy labels, and AI summaries are generated by language models and are provided for informational purposes. They should be treated as a starting signal, not a definitive classification.

We don't guarantee the accuracy of AI-generated content, and it should not be the sole basis for investment decisions. That's also stated in our Terms of Service.

Contacts — principal investigators, co-PIs, and founders — are extracted from grant award data and public registries. Email addresses and phone numbers where available are pulled from public sources and are not manually verified by us.

Contact information reflects what was on file at time of indexing and may be out of date. Use it as a starting point for outreach, not a definitive directory.

Loturo is an enterprise platform for venture funds. Access is by arrangement — book a call and we'll scope an engagement around your fund's workflow.

Pricing is by arrangement, scoped per fund — typically an annual engagement. The right setup depends on team size, integrations, and how you want deal flow delivered. Book a call to discuss.

Yes — CSV and bulk export, integrations (Notion, Airtable, custom), and API access are part of enterprise engagements.

No. Loturo is sold as a scoped enterprise engagement, not a self-serve subscription. We run pilots with funds we work with — get in touch to start one.