Application · Pre-seed & seed · Under a minute

Upload your deck. That's it.

For pre-seed and seed founders. Your email and your most detailed deck, appendix included, is all we need. Everything else is optional, and you can skip all of it.

01 Your deck Required

Send your most detailed version, with the appendix. Your numbers, customers, competitors and the raise all count, so the more the deck covers, the more useful your feedback.

How this is used

Send your fullest deck, the one with the appendix: team, traction, market, competitors, business model, the numbers and the ask. Every section is judged on what the deck actually contains, and anything that isn't in it comes back to you as a question, so a short teaser mostly gets you questions.

Upload it or paste a link below. Either one works, you only need one. PDF gives you the sharpest result because the engine opens it directly and judges every section against what's inside. PowerPoint, Keynote, and image formats are accepted but reviewed manually. Max 8 MB.

Or paste a link instead. DocSend, Drive, Notion, Pitch and Figma all work.

02 You Required

Where we send your written feedback.

Your full LinkedIn profile URL.

You are done. Everything below is optional, and you can send your application without opening any of it.

OptionalMore context Adds detail to your feedback
About you Optional
How this is used

Give lauren@shortlistvc.com viewer access, or email files to the same address. If a fund is interested we will ask for this anyway, so sharing it now is simply faster. It also gets your numbers checked against each other rather than taken at face value.

Problem Optional

What problem are you solving, who feels it, and what evidence do you have that it is real?

Solution Optional

What have you built and why is it the right wedge into this problem?

Market Optional

How big is this market and how do you know? Show your math.

Traction Optional

Revenue, users, growth, retention, signed letters of intent, or anything else that proves the business is real. Include numbers and timeframes.

Team Optional

Who are the founders, why are you the right people to solve this, and what are you missing?

Moat Optional

What is your durable advantage? Tell us what is hard to replicate, not what is fast to ship.

Why now Optional

What technological, regulatory, or behavioral shift makes this the right moment?

The ask Optional

What are you raising, on what milestones, and at what valuation if you have one in mind?

OptionalHiring Tell the funds who you need
Hiring Optional
How this is used

Are you trying to fill a role right now? The funds on The Shortlist can often help with this faster than they can with money. You can add more roles, edit them, or clear them from your portal at any time.

Someone else Optional

Tell us about a founder you think deserves funding. Not you, someone else. Who are they, what are they building, and what did they do that made you think of them?

One quick question Optional

Would you be interested in a free 90-day growth competition, with weekly coaching from a 6x Inc. 5000 sales team to help you acquire customers and scale?

03 Verify

Quick check that you're human, not a bot.

Submissions are reviewed in the order they arrive. You will hear back with feedback in up to 4 business days, though usually within 48 hours, and we are working on getting it done faster.

By submitting, you agree to our Privacy Policy. Your application and deck are shared with a partner fund only on a thesis match.

If the form gives you trouble, email your deck to lauren@shortlistvc.com and I'll make sure it gets through.