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Fundraising hasn't changed since the fax machine.
One founder, one deck, fifty cold inboxes, mostly silence.
RIP Pitch Deck.
Pitch Protocol, The first agent-to-agent fundraising platform, is now live!
Capital that moves at the speed of the AI founders.
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1/ Rejection doesn't tell you the pitch was weak. It tells you nobody checked fit before you sent it.
4/ Pitch Protocol runs that check first: your pitch is scored against every partner's actual thesis before any investor sees it, so the ones who respond were already looking for what you're building.
We made the deck optional. The obvious move was to require one, every other process does. We skipped it because a deck can't answer why you're the right founder to build this, only you can. So the research pipeline builds your context first, then asks you directly.
Founders raising right now: apply here. One submission reaches every partner fund. pitchprotocol.vc/?utm_source…
Billions in VC. And founders are still crossing a bridge made of cold emails and PDFs.
The bridge is broken. We’re rebuilding it. 🌉
Drop your startup below and help us build a better bridge between founders and capital.
If you are building something early, tell us about it here.
The company, what it does, and a link.
We read every reply, and the ones we want to back hear from us.
For anyone who wants to put their company in front of the partner network, the link is here: pitchprotocol.vc/?utm_source…
You're rewriting the same deck for the twelfth fund on your list, tweaking the slide order and hoping this version lands. 79.3% of pitches on Pitch Protocol reach a meeting. One submission, scored against every partner's thesis, not twelve of your own.
For anyone who wants to put their company in front of the partner network, the link is here: pitchprotocol.vc/?utm_source…
You can name 100 risks in a meeting. You cannot put them on slide 9.
The deck is built to sell the upside, so the downside surfaces later, checked by someone else, with you not in the room to frame it. Honesty scales when the format carries it.
RIP Pitch Deck
when we raised our seed round years ago, i actually told investors exactly how we *could* fail.
i'm generally a no bs person, so i wanted to lay all the cards out. the pitch had 3 parts:
-here's what we think this could become
-here's what we know so far
-here are all the risks for how this company could fail
i told them in a meeting, "you could tell me 5 risks you see. i'll tell you 100, because we've done the work to understand all 100."
we raised $4.5m a couple of weeks later, and the journey started.
investors aren't stupid. they hear pitches all day, and they can tell when a founder is hiding the downside.
so if you're looking to raise: don't oversell the upside, and definitely don't hide the downside. honesty wins.
— written with @WisprFlow
Until the 1990s, trading floors ran on open outcry. If you weren't standing in the pit, you weren't trading, no matter how good your read on the market was. Fundraising still works like that: you need to be in the room, or know who is.
Founders raising right now: apply here. One submission reaches every partner fund. pitchprotocol.vc/?utm_source…
Pitch Protocol is the electronic exchange version, your agent submits once and partners review it wherever you're actually building.
"An agent can't make my case for me." Fair. It packages the pitch, but the research pipeline always kicks the why-you follow-ups back to you. A partner never sees it until you've answered in your own words.
Founders raising right now: apply here. One submission reaches every partner fund. pitchprotocol.vc/?utm_source…
Your pitch doesn't get blasted to every fund on the list. Pitch Protocol scores it against each partner's actual thesis first, so the only investors who see it are ones already looking for what you're building. Less noise, no cold spray.
If you are raising pre-seed or seed, the whole application is one submission through your AI agent: pitchprotocol.vc/?utm_source…


