For non-native English speakers · Fundraising pitch
Sound sure of yourself
in fundraising pitch.
Make investors lean in — problem, vision, ask. Your grammar is not the problem. What makes English sound confident is which word takes the weight, where the pause goes, and where the voice rises and falls — and nobody teaches that. Below are real lines for this situation with those three things marked. Hear each one said well, record yours, and see how close you came. Free, no account.
gold = the word that takes the weight · ‖ = a pause · ↗ the voice rises · ↘ the voice lands · → stays up, more to come
8 of 100 lines in this path
Lines people actually say.
Marked by the same engine that marks your own script in the app. The gold word is the one to lean on; everything else is lighter than you think.
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hardThe core pitch
The 30-second hook
This company treats its people the way I'd want to be treated — trained properly, trusted early, never rushed.
I've watched you grow without cutting corners.
That's exactly where I want to spend the next ten years.
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mediumNumbers and market
Unit economics
It costs us about eleven hundred to win a clinic.
They pay us four hundred a month.
We are paid back in under three months.
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mediumHard questions
Answering how do you grow
Every clinic knows nine other clinics.
Half our customers came from a recommendation.
We have never run a paid campaign.
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mediumStory and team
Answering why you
Because I have been the customer.
I know which of these problems people complain about and which ones they actually pay to fix.
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mediumThe ask and after
Handling a passed investment
You are passing, and I understand.
Would you tell me the real reason?
Not the polite one, the one you told your partners.
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easyInvestor relationships
A first meeting with a fund
Fifteen minutes, and I'll spend ten of them on the problem.
If the problem doesn't land, the rest is noise.
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mediumPitching to different rooms
Pitching a strategic investor
You already sell into these clinics.
We're the thing they ask you for and you don't have.
That's the case, and I know it cuts both ways.
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hardHard financial questions
When the numbers are bad
This quarter is ugly and I'm not going to lead with the good chart.
Here's what happened and what I misjudged.
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What this path covers
The moments inside it.
- The 30-second hookProblem + why now
- The visionWhere this goes big
- Traction & numbersProve it’s working
- The askAmount, use, milestone
One last thing
Hear it in a voice like yours,
then in yours.
Pick the accent closest to yours and hear one voice say a line flat, then confident — same words, same accent. Then practise any of these lines against it. Your own voice takes a ten-second read and a free account. No card.