ClipSense AI
Seed Round Fundraising
ClipSense founder Gavin Buckland approached me in the early stages of raising a seed round. He was seeing some interest, but mostly getting advice.
He already had a brand and a deck, with a little traction, but investors weren’t biting.
Explaining the product in two sentences.
Originally, ClipSense was introduced through 5 GIFs on 5 separate slides, with no explanation.
With 30 slides, Gavin had some good ideas, but he needed to focus more on showing investors the proof they needed to know ClipSense was more than just an idea.
He had a working prototype, paying customers, and a plan for success.
But he wasn’t communicating effectively.
Clearly quantifying everything, including market opportunity (shown above), problem, solution, and more translates to business sense for investors.
Together, we cut the deck down to 17 laser-focused slides, simplified the vision, and quantified the problem and the opportunity.
Then I helped him develop a better pricing model, fleshed out a roadmap, and upped the ask to make sure he could get the job done with the amount raised. The raise is ongoing, but
with the new deck, he has soft commits from everyone he’s pitched.