We built Deckmetric Pitch Intelligence because founders deserve to know how their pitch performs across different capital markets before they walk into the room.
After 25+ years of evaluating startup pitches across Silicon Valley, European, and MENA markets, we noticed a pattern: founders were optimizing their decks for a single geography, usually wherever they happened to be based.
A pitch that works in San Francisco often falls flat in Berlin. European VCs care deeply about unit economics and regulatory compliance. Silicon Valley investors want to see hockey-stick growth and bold vision. MENA investors evaluate founder credibility and execution risk differently than both.
But in an increasingly global fundraising environment, founders need to speak multiple "investor dialects" fluently. That's why we built this tool.
We evaluate pitches against ten distinct frameworks so you walk into every meeting knowing exactly how your pitch lands with each investor type
Stop guessing what investors want. See how your pitch scores against Y Combinator, Sequoia, a16z, 500 Global, First Round, Tiger Global, and Family Office criteria — so you can tailor your story to the right audience.
Our Captivate-Validate-Motivate framework pinpoints exactly where your pitch captivates, where it validates, and where it fails to motivate action — so you fix the right things before your next meeting:
Strategic Advisory Practice
Shepard&Young is a strategic advisory practice for globally mobile operators, founders, and investors navigating cross-border markets. We've built and sold companies, advised family offices across three continents, and evaluated thousands of pitches in our careers as operators and investors.
This tool distills that experience into an automated intelligence layer that helps founders understand how their story translates across capital markets before they pitch.