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I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup.
After the 144th rejection, I started questioning everything:
Were we solving the right problem?
What were we doing wrong?
Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing?
Were we even the right team to build this?
We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, reframing the problem.
Then came the 145th meeting — the one that changed everything.
That yes made it all worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work.
We went through so much trial and error just to figure out what actually resonates with investors.
We tested dozens of approaches — most didn’t work. But each iteration taught us something new about what builds conviction vs. what just sounds good on paper.
And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected.
Today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago:
Grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works.
So I decided to create the resource I wish I had back then.
I’ve partnered with Notion’s Startups Team to put together the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years.
The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super.com (Series B, C)
50+ real pitch deck examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI
A searchable database of 10,000+ investors — angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately
An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed)
