Fundraise Teardown with Rishabh Verma

Send me your deck 24 hours before we speak. I'll have read it properly.

We'll go through the narrative, not the design. What a real investor is thinking on slide three. Which claim gets picked apart in diligence. Whether your round size and valuation are actually raisable in this market, or whether you're about to spend four months finding out they aren't.

I've raised for three of my own four companies and for eight client companies — the largest being a $32M round for an Indian health insurance player and a $20M round for a UK life sciences product. Across our portfolio, companies have gone on to raise $400M+ in follow-on capital.

To be clear: I invest through The VC Venture, but this is not a pitch meeting and your deck goes nowhere without your say-so.

Best for: Founders about to start a raise, or founders three months into one that isn't closing.

Come with: Deck, current round terms, and your target investor list if you have one.