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Investor pitch

The pitch is ten minutes. The questions decide the meeting.

Founders rehearse the deck many times and the questions almost never. Investors interrupt, dig into one number and ask about the risk you hoped to skip. Practice with one who does.

What makes investor meetings hard

  • Interruptions

    An investor stops you on slide three. Your carefully built story now has to work out of order.

  • Questions about weak spots

    Churn, competition, a small team, a long sales cycle. Hesitation reads as a bigger problem than the answer.

  • Reading interest

    Polite investors rarely say no in the room. You need to learn whether the meeting actually went well.

Investors you can practice with

Each investor has a thesis, concerns about your stage or market and a reason they would pass, which they do not say out loud. Good answers and direct questions bring those concerns to the surface.

  • Early-stage investor

    Focused on the team, the problem and why now.

  • Growth investor

    Focused on numbers, unit economics and how you use the money.

  • Skeptical partner

    Has seen similar companies fail and wants to know why yours will not.

What the feedback covers

How clearly you explained the problem and the business, whether your answers were direct and backed by facts, where you became defensive and whether you asked about next steps. Each point is tied to a quote from the conversation.

How it works in the product

Take the hard questions before the meeting

Pick an investor, give your pitch and see which answers hold up.