Who you are hiring
Ten years building. Three pre-seed rounds raised. Fifty first raises reviewed from the investor’s chair.
I left École Centrale at 22 to start my first company and have shipped 25+ products since, across fintech, media and AI. I raised my own pre-seed three times. Then I ran EarlyVentures, an early-stage launchpad, where I sat on the reviewing side of 50+ first raises and watched good companies lose to bad decks.
Yoann Defay
Founder · LinkedIn →Case · F1Stakes
A shelved idea became an investor-ready deck in one week, then cleared three rounds of meetings and full diligence.
We wrote the story, built the deck, ran call rehearsals, and answered every diligence question the investors sent back. That is the bar: slides that survive the room, not slides that photograph well.
Free deck score
We read your deck the way a pre-seed investor reads it.
Upload the PDF and get a score on screen in about 30 seconds. Two business days later a written teardown lands in your inbox: every slide, five dimensions, and the single change that moves the most.
What we usually receive
The deck as it stands
Ends with a polite “keep us posted.”
What we send back
The deck after we rebuild it
Ends with “can you do Thursday?”
Why this, why now, why you
Traction an investor can verify
A number built bottom-up
Why you win this specific thing
Amount, runway, milestones
How it works
Five stages, and we do the work in every one.
Start anywhere. Most founders start at the deck and work outwards.
Fit call
30 min, freeYou walk us through what you are building and what investors have said. We tell you the next useful move, including "wait a quarter" when that is the answer.
Raise plan
FirstWe set the amount, the use of funds, the milestones it buys, and the objections you will hear. You leave with a target list built for your stage, sector and check size.
Deck
About a weekWe write the narrative, build the slides and design them. You keep the working files, the source copy and the reasoning behind every slide.
Outreach
OngoingWe write the emails, send them from a dedicated setup so your inbox stays clean, track the campaign and hand you the replies worth answering first.
The room
Through the raiseWe rehearse the call, drill the questions that end meetings, draft your follow-ups and investor updates, and prepare the diligence pack before anyone asks for it.
Fit
We turn founders away. Here is the line.
Pricing
Name the bottleneck. Pay to fix that one thing.
Fixed price per package, paid once. No retainer, no monthly minimum, nothing to cancel.
You have a deck that gets silence. We rewrite the story, restructure the slides and redesign them. About a week.
Send your deck → Most founders start hereRaise plan, deck from scratch, Q&A drilling, and your first 50 matched investors contacted with follow-up.
Start here →100 to 500 matched investors. We build the list, write the emails, send, track and triage the replies.
Start here →Every package opens with the free fit call. If an outreach campaign returns zero replies, we run the next 50 investors at no charge.
Before you hire us
What founders ask first.
I have never raised and I am pre-seed. Is this for me?
That is the only founder we build for. First round, pre-seed or seed, no prior raise. We cover the amount, the story, the deck, the target list, the outreach, the calls, the follow-ups and diligence.
Which call is free and which one costs money?
The 30-minute fit call is free and there is nothing to buy at the end of it. The $150 Strategy Session is a separate 90-minute working session that ends with a written action plan, and the $150 comes off any package you take afterwards.
Will you guarantee a check, or at least a meeting?
No. Investors decide that, so anyone selling you certainty is selling something they do not own. We guarantee the work: a story that holds up, a list matched to your stage, tracked outreach, fast follow-up. If a campaign returns zero replies, we run the next 50 investors at no charge.
Cold outreach or warm intros?
Cold, and targeted. We build the list from your stage, sector and check size, write each email against the investor thesis, send from a dedicated outreach setup so your main inbox stays clean, and triage what comes back. We do not claim intros we do not have.
How much work lands back on me?
You supply the facts: product, traction, market, financials, plus feedback inside a day or two. We do the writing, the slide design, the list research, the sending and the reply triage. Hands-on, not homework.
What does the timeline look like?
Fit call takes 30 minutes. Deck teardown comes back in 2 business days. A focused deck moves in about a week when you answer quickly. Outreach starts once the story and deck can survive a forward.
Raising this quarter?
Find out which slide loses them, before the next investor opens it.
Upload the deck and we grade every slide. No deck yet, book the call and we start from your notes. Either way you get a diagnosis rather than a sales call.
2-day teardown