Raise works with founders who have worked with firms like these.
Turn your pitch into a clear investment narrative, identify the right investors, and execute your raise with a system.
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Every slide earns its place, or it gets cut.
Raise works with founders who have worked with firms like these.
THE PROBLEM
Most founders we work with are building alone: no co-founder to pressure-test the story, no team to run the process. The company can be strong and the raise still stalls, for three reasons.
Your deck explains what you built, not why it deserves investment. Partners leave the meeting unable to repeat your story, so the story dies in the room you are not in.
With Raise: we sharpen the investment case until a partner can retell it in one sentence.
You pitch whoever replies, including investors who never write pre-seed or seed checks in your sector. Volume feels like progress and burns your best weeks.
With Raise: you approach a targeted list of investors who fit your stage, sector, and round size.
Meetings happen one at a time, months apart, with no follow-up system. Momentum dies between calls and the round quietly goes cold.
With Raise: you run a sequenced process: parallel meetings, tracked next steps, and competitive tension.
FREE TOOL · DECK RATER
Upload your deck PDF and the Deck Rater scores it across the 10 dimensions investors judge, using 40 transparent checks grounded in Sequoia's published pitch framework and YC's application criteria. You get a score out of 100, your top 3 leaks, and the fix for each one.
Honest mechanics: this is a rule-based assessment, not a black box. It runs entirely in your browser, so your deck never leaves your device and nothing is uploaded or stored. It is the same diagnostic lens we use at the start of every engagement, and if you are raising solo, it is the fastest second opinion your deck can get.
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THE RAISE METHODOLOGY
Fundraising is not a lottery. It is an engineered campaign. We fix the story, the targeting, and the objection defense in order, and everything we build is yours to keep.
Audit your deck, narrative, and unit economics against 10 YC dimensions and find the fatal leaks before partners do.
You keep: a slide-by-slide audit with exact line-by-line fixes.
Re-engineer the narrative so every slide stands on its own and every metric claim holds under fire.
You keep: the rebuilt deck and your category and moat positioning.
Identify the 50 lead partners who actively write checks for your stage, sector, check size, and thesis.
You keep: the 50-partner target matrix.
Rehearse the 20 toughest partner objections with data-backed answers.
You keep: the objection defense matrix.
Run parallel partner meeting sprints with pipeline tracking and weekly momentum updates.
You keep: a clean data room, a reviewed financial model and cap table, and your meeting pipeline tracker.
Every framework and checklist we use, applied to your round.
You work directly with Mouad, never a junior agency designer.
Mock partner sessions that feel like the real meeting.
The deck, targets, objection matrix, and data room are yours when we finish.
You bring the company and the numbers. Raise turns them into one system: the story, the targets, and the answers, built in order and run with you.
SEVEN STAGES · START TO CLOSE
Fatal leaks found before partners do
A story partners can repeat
50 thesis-fit partners, not volume
The 20 hardest questions, rehearsed
Parallel meetings, competitive tension
Every asset built is yours to keep
Fifteen minutes with Mouad, where it starts
ADVISORY
Three ways to work with Raise, from a one-week teardown to a partner at your side through close. Every tier is done with you directly, and everything we build is yours to keep.
Find out exactly why your deck isn’t landing.
Best for: Founders who are getting polite passes and want a precise diagnosis before spending more time or money.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
YOU KEEP
The annotated audit and your prioritized fix list.
TIMELINE
YOUR COMMITMENT
Book a call for pricingGet investor-ready in three weeks.
Best for: Founders planning to raise in the next 60–90 days who need the story, targets, and answers built properly before outreach starts.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
YOU KEEP
The rebuilt deck, positioning document, 50-partner matrix, and objection defense matrix.
TIMELINE
YOUR COMMITMENT
Book a call for pricingMouad at your side from first meeting to signed term sheet.
Best for: Founders running a live round who want competitive tension, not a slow trickle of meetings.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
YOU KEEP
The clean data room, reviewed model and cap table, your pipeline tracker, and the full playbook for your next round.
TIMELINE
YOUR COMMITMENT
Apply for 1:1 advisory| Deliverable | AUDIT | PROGRAM | 1:1 ADVISORY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deck audit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deck rebuild | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Positioning | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| 50-partner matrix | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Objection defense | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Diligence prep | – | – | ✓ |
| Close support | – | – | ✓ |
Not sure which fits? A 15-minute call answers that before you commit to anything.
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THE FOUNDER
Raise is led by Mouad Dliaa. The belief behind it is simple: strong startups often struggle to raise, not because the business is weak, but because the investment story fails to land.
Founders respond by polishing the deck: better design, tighter slides, prettier charts, while the case for investing stays fuzzy and the polish hides it. Raise works in the opposite order. Diagnose the story first, strengthen the investment case, then execute a structured raise aimed at the right investors.
If you are building alone, this is who Raise was built for: a partner-level second brain for your raise, working directly with you from the first diagnostic to the signed term sheet.
RESOURCES
Moritz raised a $9M seed round with a 12-slide deck. The teardown breaks down, slide by slide, what made it work.
Read the teardownKeeper raised $4M at pre-seed. Its deck is a lesson in proof, market framing, and knowing which slides carry the round.
Read the teardownSearch 2,197 researched investors by stage, sector, region, and check size. Free to use with an access code.
Find investorsScore your deck against 40 investor-readiness checks, free, in your browser. Your deck never leaves your device.
Rate my deckQUESTIONS
Raise is a fundraising advisory and toolkit for pre-seed and seed founders. We sharpen your investment story, rebuild your deck, target the right investors, and execute a structured raise with you, from first diagnostic to signed term sheet.
Pre-seed and seed founders, and solo founders especially. If you are raising without a co-founder or a finance team to run the process, Raise acts as your fundraising partner: the system, the second pair of eyes, and the rehearsal room.
A direct 15-minute call with Mouad. It is 100% confidential, with no pitch and no obligation. We look at where your raise stands, what is weakening it, and whether Raise is the right help for it.
A free tool that scores your deck across 10 investor-readiness dimensions using 40 transparent checks grounded in Sequoia's published pitch framework and YC's application criteria. You get a score out of 100, your top 3 leaks, and the fix for each one. Try it here.
No. The Deck Rater is a rule-based assessment that runs entirely in your browser. Your deck file never leaves your device, and nothing is uploaded or stored.
About 3 weeks from audit to an investor-ready deck, a 50-partner target matrix, and rehearsed objection answers. The Audit tier takes about 1 week, and 1:1 Advisory runs from first meeting through close.
The Investor Finder lists 2,197 researched investors, searchable and filterable by stage, sector, region, and check size. It is free to use behind an access code. Open it here.
Each engagement is scoped to your round and the level of support you need, so pricing is covered on your call, after we understand where your raise stands. There is no obligation attached to asking.
Find out what is weakening your fundraising story and what to improve next.
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