Description

You've built something. Maybe you have early traction, a deck, a product, or a growing customer base. You're preparing to raise — or you've already started pitching and something isn't landing the way you expected. Before you spend more time in rooms where investors say "we'll circle back," you need to know exactly what they're seeing that you're not. This package is an investor-grade evaluation of your startup, conducted by someone who has evaluated early-stage companies as an angel investor, as an accelerator mentor, and as a judge for early-stage startup competitions at Stanford and Penn. I don't just coach founders on how to pitch — I've sat on the other side of the table and made real calls on real companies. This is what that lens looks like applied to yours. Before our session, you'll submit your deck, any relevant financials or metrics, a brief description of your fundraising history or investor feedback to date, and a short written answer to three questions: What have you built or proven? What does your ideal investor look like? Where do you think your pitch is weakest? This pre-work is required — it's what allows me to come into our live session with a fully formed view rather than asking you to explain your own startup to me for an hour. I then spend 3 hours in deep async review, evaluating your startup across five dimensions: 🏗️ Founder-market fit 📈 Problem severity and market pull 💡 Business model logic ✅ Quality of traction and validation 💰 Fundraisability right now I read your materials the way an investor would during a real due diligence process, looking for the gaps that don't get caught in friendly feedback sessions. We then meet for a 1-hour live session where I walk you through my full read — what's working, what's raising flags, what questions would stop your raise cold, and what needs to be true before you're genuinely ready to close a round. Finally, you receive a written evaluation summary covering each of the five dimensions, your most critical gaps, and a prioritized action plan for addressing them.