YAR Ventures · IC Prep
Pitch session prep.
Please select "Don't track" or write "N/A" If you don't track a metric.
01
Identity & contact
5 fields
Startup name
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Founder name
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Founder email
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Founder phone / WhatsApp
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Cofounder name
(if applicable)
Cofounder email
(if applicable)
02
Company profile & fundraising
7 fields
Website
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Sector
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Select sector
Healthcare
Financial services
Legal
Sales & marketing
Developer / engineering
HR & recruiting
Manufacturing / industrial
Climate / energy
Education
Consumer
Government / defense
Cross-industry (horizontal)
Other
Who pays you?
Business model
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Select business model
SaaS subscription
Usage / API-based pricing
Marketplace (take rate)
Services + software hybrid
Hardware sales
Open-core / commercial OSS
Consumer (freemium / transaction)
Licensing
How do you charge?
AI archetype
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Select AI archetype
Horizontal SaaS with AI features
Vertical AI (deep in one industry)
AI Infrastructure / Tooling
Foundation model / model lab
Agentic systems
Embodied AI / Robotics
Data & Intelligence product
AI Security / Trust & Safety
AI Hardware / Edge / Chips
What does your AI do?
Stage
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Select stage
Pre-seed
Seed
Series A
Series B
Series C+
Bootstrapped
Other
Raised so far (USD)
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Target raise (USD)
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Valuation / SAFE cap
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03
Pitch logistics
2 fields
Pitch session date
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Select your confirmed session date
Friday, May 15, 2026 · 12:00 PM PST
Friday, June 26, 2026 · 12:00 PM PST
Friday, July 24, 2026 · 12:00 PM PST
Friday, August 21, 2026 · 12:00 PM PST
Friday, September 18, 2026 · 12:00 PM PST
Friday, October 16, 2026 · 12:00 PM PST
Friday, November 20, 2026 · 12:00 PM PST
Friday, December 18, 2026 · 12:00 PM PST
Pick the session Rosa confirmed you for
Pitch deck link
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Share the exact deck version you want investors to review. Make sure link access is enabled.
04
Standard financials
8 fields
Updated ARR (USD)
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Current annualized revenue
Updated customer count
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Paying customers only — not LOIs
Gross margin %
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Status
Measured
Estimated
Don't track
Not applicable
After COGS — include hosting + LLM costs
ACV (USD)
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Status
Measured
Estimated
Don't track
Not applicable
Average annual contract value
Burn rate (USD/month)
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Runway (months)
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CAC (USD)
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Status
Measured
Estimated
Don't track
Not applicable
Customer acquisition cost
LTV (USD)
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Status
Measured
Estimated
Don't track
Not applicable
Customer lifetime value
05
AI cost structure
3 fields
Compute / LLM spend as % of revenue
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Trajectory matters more than the absolute number. Use "N/A" if you weren't operating 6 months ago.
Inference cost per customer per month (USD)
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Status
Measured
Estimated
Don't track
Not applicable
LLM API + compute cost to serve one customer for one month
Model dependency fallback plan
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Select
Model-agnostic — could switch in 2–4 weeks
Moderate dependency — 3–6 months to migrate
Heavy dependency — would be very disruptive
Fully proprietary — no third-party dependency
If your primary LLM doubled in price, what happens?
05a
Wedge & traction
3 fields
Founder AI/ML production experience
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Two sentences. Where have you built or shipped AI/ML systems in production?
How your last 3 customers found you
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We're looking for pull signals (inbound, referrals) vs. push (cold outbound).
Top 3 customers or design partners
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Names or descriptors. 'N/A' is acceptable if pre-revenue.
06
AI defensibility
4 fields
Performance vs. baseline LLM
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Select
Formal eval suite — we outperform baseline by measured X%
Qualitative lift — better but not formally benchmarked
Comparable to baseline — we win on UX/integration
Not applicable — we train our own models
How does your system perform vs. just calling GPT-4 / Claude directly?
Data flywheel — new labeled data per customer per month
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Select type
Compounding — measurable model improvement
Static dataset — not actively growing
No proprietary data accumulation
Not applicable
A static dataset is replicable. A compounding flywheel is the moat.
Wedge — the specific job you replace
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In one sentence: what specific job does your product replace today, and for whom?
Foundation model defensibility
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Two sentences max. Be specific — distribution, data, workflow, regulation, hardware.
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