Part of the vojtarocek.cz/startups where I’m collecting my experience in VC.

The beginning is not that hard - just send me your pitch deck.

I know you want to start a conversation first because you think it will increase the likelihood of investment. I get it, you sent your pitch deck to 100 investors and got no response; this is your way of countering it.

But to prioritize your project, I must first understand if it’s eligible.

We have constraints over our investment thesis, so for me to be effective, I need to understand

• Geography
  • we do only some countries
• B2B/B2C
  • we do only some startups
• Round size
  • we do only valuations up to some size
• Area of interest for your product
  • we invest in some areas, we don’t invest in others

After reviewing your pitch deck, I’ll know if it makes sense to talk, and if not, I will tell you why.

Then, I’ll offer you a talk with one of our VC analysts. You might see this as if I lowered your priority, but quite the opposite is the truth. I’m overloaded with work unrelated to the startup evaluation (I run the fund), and I rarely focus enough to do the startup evaluation process correctly. I know this, so we created an internal team dedicated to evaluating startups full of people with the best experience in the market. Their highest priority is to get you our response in time. I trust them more than I trust myself because they’re laser-focused.

To drag me to any kind of meeting where I don’t want to be there in the first place (thus with no preparation at all) usually breaks down conversation and harms analysts' ability to extract the information they need to do their assessment correctly. You might seriously harm your chances.

Please trust our process, we put a lot of effort and energy into make it work the right way.