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SeedForge vs Visible: Which One Fits Your Raise in 2026, Compared
David Rakusan·

SeedForge vs Visible: Which One Fits Your Raise in 2026, Compared

Visible and SeedForge solve two different halves of a raise. Visible keeps the investors you already have up to date: recurring updates, metric dashboards, fundraising pipelines and shared document folders, starting free. SeedForge produces the thing an investor reads before they have met you: one profile, on one link, built from your deck and documents. Full pricing for both, seven per-segment verdicts, and what the research says about how little time investors spend on any one company.

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How to Show Investors You're Ready Without Repeating Yourself (2026)
David Rakusan·

How to Show Investors You're Ready Without Repeating Yourself (2026)

Founders repeat themselves to investors because every fund runs its own read from zero. This guide covers why the repetition happens, what it costs (46% of founders spend 30% or more of their week fundraising), and compares five tools that answer the question once: SeedForge, DocSend, Papermark, Foundersuite and Notion, with prices read at source and a best-for verdict on each.

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Investor Pitch Deck Template: 10 Slides That Actually Work in 2026
David Rakusan·

Investor Pitch Deck Template: 10 Slides That Actually Work in 2026

Most pitch deck templates give you a structure but not an argument. This 10-slide investor pitch deck template for 2026 walks slide by slide through what to put on each slide, the proof signal each one should carry, the most common 2026 mistake, and the test for whether the slide is doing its job. Built on the team-weighting research from 885 institutional VCs and DocSend's 2024 behavioral data on how investors read decks.

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Pitch Deck Examples for Startups (and What Investors Actually Look at on Each Slide)
David Rakusan·

Pitch Deck Examples for Startups (and What Investors Actually Look at on Each Slide)

Most pitch deck guides show you what a great deck looks like. This one shows what investors actually read on each slide. Behavioral data from 30,000+ investor sessions, the slide-by-slide framework, and the proof signals that separate decks that move forward from decks that get a polite reply. Includes a 11-slide comparison table, a working redesign checklist, and the structural fix for the question-repetition trap that decks alone cannot solve.

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What VCs Actually Ask in the First 3 Meetings (And What They're Really Testing)
David Rakusan·

What VCs Actually Ask in the First 3 Meetings (And What They're Really Testing)

An ex-VC breaks down the questions investors ask across the first three meetings, what each one is really testing, and where most founders lose the deal. Updated September 2026 with H1 2026 AI funding data from the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, Carta's 2026 valuation split between AI and non-AI startups, and a new section on what that concentration does to your market answer.

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