
Last year, a brilliant founder sat across from me. He had a real product and paying customers, but he'd spent 7 months failing to raise a seed round.
He sent 200 cold emails and got just 2 meetings. Both ended in silence.
When I looked at his pitch deck, the issues were obvious:
The TAM was wrong. He claimed a £4B market. The real number was closer to £400M. VCs stop reading the moment data feels made up.
The target list was wrong. Half the investors on his list only did Series B. Weeks of research wasted on irrelevant leads.
The outreach was generic. Zero personalisation. No portfolio references. It looked like spam.
None of this was his fault. He's a first-time founder, he didn't know what he didn't know.
That's what we spent 2 years building Platvix to fix.
We ran a closed version, 300 startups signed up, and a handful of investors used it to screen deal flow on the other side. Today it's open to everyone, free to use.
Upload your deck → get it scored the way a VC actually scores it → verify every claim you're making → find investors who are likely to invest in you → build personalised outreach for every investor.
What's been the single most frustrating part of your fundraising journey so far? Let's talk in the comments.