​🔥 Pitch Teardown — Brutally Honest Feedback for Startup Founders

​Most founders don’t lose investor meetings because their startup is bad.
They lose them because they never got honest feedback.

What they usually get is:
“Looks good.”
“Nice deck.”
“Interesting idea.”
“Maybe tighten a few slides.”

Polite feedback. Safe feedback. Useless feedback.

And then they walk into investor meetings, say the wrong things, emphasise the wrong parts, miss the real questions — and the meeting is over before it even starts.

That’s not because they’re bad founders. It’s because no one told them the truth early enough.

This is why we’re doing Pitch Teardowns.

​Pitch Teardown is a high-signal, no-fluff event where startup founders get their pitch decks torn apart (constructively) by experienced operators, investors, and pitch experts — so they can rebuild something that actually wins funding.

​This is not a demo day.
This is not a webinar.
This is a live teardown of real startup pitches.

​🧠 What Happens at Pitch Teardown?

​Selected founders will pitch live.
Our panel will break it down slide by slide, calling out:

• ​What’s confusing

• ​What’s weak

• ​What’s missing

• ​What investors actually care about

• ​What needs to change for this deck to become fundable

​Expect:

• ​Raw, honest feedback

• ​Real VC-style questioning

• ​Actionable improvements you can apply immediately

​Whether you pitch or watch, you’ll walk away with mental models, frameworks, and insights that instantly upgrade your own deck.

​👥 The Panel

​🎯 Aashna Kumar - Vistara Growth

​The Polite but Razor-Sharp

Soft tone, deadly precision — her feedback lands gently but hits exactly where it matters.

🎯 Asit K. Deva - Futuresight

The No-BS Operator

Cuts through the noise, spots weak logic instantly, and calls out fluff in seconds.

​🎯 Matthew He - Whitestar

The Straight Shooter

Says exactly what founders need to hear — no sugarcoating, no politics, only clarity.

​🎯 Orchid Jahanshahi - ThinkrBelle

Science-first Results-Obsessed builder and Investor.

High Conviction, sharp, commercially pragmatic

🎯 Toni Agbaje-Ojo - Forum Ventures

High empathy, high standards, zero fluff. and explains why something won’t work.

​🎯 Chetan Bhatia (DeckStoryGuy) - Honest Create

⁠The Brutally Constructive Builder

Breaks your pitch apart, then helps you rebuild it stronger, clearer, and investor-ready

​🎯 Who Should Attend?

• ​Pre-seed & seed stage founders

• ​Founders who have figured the 2 mins or 5 mins pitch but are struggling to convert long 15 mins pitches

• ​Anyone who wants to understand how investors actually evaluate pitches

​💡 Why Attend?

​Because watching real pitches being torn down live teaches you more than 50 blog posts, templates, or generic pitch advice.

​You’ll learn:

• ​How investors think

• ​How they filter opportunities

• ​What instantly kills interest

• ​What creates momentum

​🚀 Format

• ​Live founder pitches

• ​Real-time teardown & feedback

• ​Panel discussion

• ​Open Q&A

​⚠️ Important

​This is not a polite feedback session.
This is high-signal, brutally honest, founder-first critique.

​If you want comfort → don’t come.
If you want clarity → this is for you.

Happy Pitching 🤙

Format and Venue

It is an intimate safe space and a crowd of 25 people. Very intentional.

Only 3 founders will have a 15-min discussion with the VC in the room and the panelists and get feedback.

Others are welcome to join and listen.

Pls feel free to call +1 (647) 860-5265 for any questions or help needed to get there.

MaRS Discovery District at 101 College St, Suite 250, Toronto, ON M5G 0A3

Pictures from our previous events so you understand the vibe :)

Presented by:

Honest Create
https://honestcreate.com/

Special Thanks to the Partners:

Orientum
https://www.orientum.co/

Startup Ecosystem Canada
https://www.startupecosystem.ca/

Future Sight
http://futuresight.ventures/

TechBeat Canada
https://techbeat.ca/

The Product Folks
https://www.theproductfolks.com/