Ivan Semenov

Folks, thank you so much for your support today - we're at number 5, ahead of huge companies like Notion and Meta :oo never expected this!
Every bit of support from you will count to hold the spot and aim higher. Thank you infinitely for your upvotes and comments today!
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Hey guys,

Another free tool from our team is out on Causo Hub the Pitch Deck Roaster.

Drop a PDF, get back a slide-by-slide roast (0 100 score + good/warn/bad verdict for each slide) and the top three things to fix before your next partner meeting. Takes about 60 seconds.

What it grades against: problem clarity, market framing, team story, traction evidence, ask specificity, business model, and competition framing.

Confession to start: my co-founder and I made up a startup last month and pitched it to 100 venture capitalists. Realistic space, realistic team, realistic deck. We're not naming it because the point was the experiment, not the pitch. And before anyone panics, we politely declined to move forward with everyone, because, well, the company doesn't exist. Sorry for the noise to any VCs who might recognise themselves, hope we didn't offend anybody, and always happy to chat properly. The deck was decent though, in our humble opinion.

Why we did this: we tried to raise about a year ago for a different project, mostly cold because our network was thin. It was brutal. 60+ hours writing emails, second guessing every line, watching most of them go nowhere. We always wondered whether we just sucked at it, or whether the numbers really are that hard for everyone. We haven't seen many founders publicly share their actual funnel from cold VC outreach, so we figured we'd run it again properly and find out.

Same shape both times. 100 funds, sequence of 4 emails each (first email plus 3 follow ups), spread over roughly a month.

Our previous attempt, about a year ago: