Two Pitches, Two Lessons
June brought two very different pitching opportunities, Fund My Pitch in Bristol and Pitch Me! with techSPARK. I was delighted to be selected for both, and each one pushed Surveyr's story forward in its own way.
Fund My Pitch
Fund My Pitch is a selective regional event that brings together a curated group of early-stage investors to hear a small number of well-chosen founders pitch. It's built for quality over quantity: five to eight carefully selected pre-seed and seed-stage companies, already showing traction and actively raising, presenting to a room of active angels, funds, and ecosystem partners.
Getting selected was a genuine milestone, but the preparation was where the real work happened. Three minutes, five slides maximum, and the pitch learnt off by heart. Distilling everything Surveyr is and where it's heading into that tight a format was nerve-wracking and genuinely difficult. There's no room to hide behind a slide full of detail when you've only got three minutes and five of them to work with. Every sentence has to earn its place.
It was worth every hour of practice. The insight from the room afterwards was invaluable, the kind of direct, experienced feedback that only comes from investors who see pitches like this every week. I'm looking forward to pitching again once I've got further traction to show.
Pitch Me
Pitch Me! run by techSPARK, is a different kind of session altogether: an informal, founder-first online event where entrepreneurs can pitch to a panel of experienced business leaders and get honest, constructive feedback in a supportive setting. Rather than the tight, stripped-back format of Fund My Pitch, founders get up to ten minutes, which meant I could bring my whole deck and walk through Surveyr properly.
It was a much more involved session, and a good chance to test how the full story lands rather than just the headline version. I was pleasantly surprised by how well it was received. The panel's questions and comments were, again, genuinely useful, and the whole experience gave me a real confidence boost to keep pushing forward on the investment journey.
Taking it forward
Two events, two formats, and two reminders of the same thing: pitching is a skill you build through repetition, not something you get right once and file away. Between the discipline of Fund My Pitch's three minutes and the depth of Pitch Me's full deck, I've come away with a sharper story and a clearer sense of what resonates with investors. Onwards to the next one.