I spent 8 years as a VC. Invested in 47 companies, read thousands of decks, sat through hundreds of pitches.
And the whole time, from my side of the table, I kept noticing the same thing. The founders struggling to raise usually didn't have worse ideas. They were the ones who couldn't get in front of the right investors, or were emailing the wrong ones with the wrong message.
Just tried this out. Honestly, it's a lifesaver. Scored my messy deck in 90 secs and gave me a list of investors that actually make sense. No more guessing if they care about my sector. Definitely keeping this open while I fundraise.
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@dongbai Amazing feedback, thanks for sharing. Mind sharing more about yoru project and the type of investors you're trying to outreach?
May I ask you, from your experience - does design matter at all in a pitch deck? Or is clear information without any decorations preferable? And I really wonder - do investors check every pitch deck manually, of filter them fist through some AI instrument?
Congrats on the launch, really liked the analysis!
Just checked a deck and it misunderstood one part. "10 paid jobs routed through our platform" was understood as promising 10 paid jobs.
This specific example aside, did you have any issues with decks being misunderstood? Maybe this is also a sign to change the framing on the deck:)
I am raising for the first time, and I find the feedback and directory extremely helpful.
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@thedatadavis Thanks Chris, glad it's helpful. What's your company about?
@yoann_berno3 Thanks for asking. We're building PDT (Process Deploy Tool) -- you can think of it as the missing layer between AI and business operations.
It's a platform that lets non-developers run their workflows like engineers do. Instead of open-ended agents, you write your SOPs in Markdown and PDT executes them step-by-step, with humans staying in control throughout.
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@thedatadavis Nice, thanks for sharing. Let me look into Angel data set to check overlap
This is such a super helpful tool, especially since I'm trying to close a pre-seed round. Thank you!
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@nox_v Yes perfect for pre-seed. What's your company about? Happy to provide some pointers.
You should also definitely score your deck to figure out whether it's ready for investor outreach
@yoann_berno3 thanks! I’m building Clearpane, an observability platform for revenue operations. Think Datadog, but for the revenue stack (CRM, billing, forecasting, planning, product usage, etc.) instead of engineering infrastructure.
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@nox_v Great scope. All the best to your project and fundraising
Elentaria
Congrats! Indeed, perfect timing and a well needed resource for founders.
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@khashayar_mansourizadeh1 Thanks for the support. Great timing indeed
Serand
Congratulations on the launch @yoann_berno3
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@maali_baali Thanks a lot for the support. Looking forward to your product feedback. You're raising funds right now?