Asana, Trello, Notion…

If you are so deep into secrecy forget about angels and VCs because it is not looking professional at all. Raise some love money (family and friends), but like it is said on the first comment : SaaS does not get much success with retail investors.

There is no product-market fit. You made a lot of assumptions building your product and now in front of the market reality pops in. You pride yourself having a technically superior product and cheaper than your competitors, great for you but obviously the market does not care. You do not bring relevant value to the target you are aiming for, that is your issue with conversion. I am not attacking you, I am simply explaining to you what’s going on. Building a product that does not bring value to the customers and pay for Google ads is not the way to do it. I get it, first time founder, but what is shocking here is at no point you realize you got it wrong from the start of your business, you think it is a technical problem.

She has raised money, now she’s traped she must produce results for her investors, so far she’s bullshiting… someone in your team needs to bring her back to reality and tell her the story of a company named Theranos.

What matters is the final format of your deck, which is PDF. How you do get it is not relevant. Use what’s convenient for you.

Before asking for valuation, do you know if your business qualifies for venture capital ? Most businesses don’t. Check if you qualify and also understand that the VC industry is in winter mode since last year and works on trends too. 2023 is generative data science labelled AI, like 2022 was web3 etc…

You based a business on assumptions…it is not a ‘‘wrong audience’’ problem, but rather you not doing what was required first : market research. Don’t assume, check. In my opinion you did targeted the right audience, but with the wrong approach…