Impartial by design
Every deck is measured against the same criteria, and the weights behind each score are visible.
AI-assisted pitch deck review
Every pitch deserves a fair referee.
Pitchdeck Referee reads a startup pitch deck the way an experienced investor would. It scores the deck against weighted criteria, names the key risks and explains every call in plain language.
How a review works
From upload to verdict in three steps
The same method an investment committee applies, run the same way on every deck.
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STEP 1
Upload the deck
Add a pitch deck as a PDF or PowerPoint (.pptx) file. Referee reads every slide, including charts and financial tables.
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STEP 2
Scored against ten criteria
The criteria are grouped into story, market, business model, team and financial plan, and each group is weighted to the reviewer's investment thesis.
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STEP 3
Read the verdict
A score out of 100, the strengths, the key risks and the questions an investor would likely raise before a first meeting.
Early stage
Developing
Solid
Strong
Prime
Every score comes with a band in plain words, so the result reads at a glance without relying on colour.
Sample review
What a founder or investor receives
A review of Tidewell, a fictional seed-stage logistics company, scored 88 and rated Prime.
A complete review from the live application, shown for a fictional company.
- Referee's verdictA short, balanced judgement that leads with what works.
- Elevator pitchThe business retold in two sentences, as an investor would repeat it.
- Five key risksEach risk rated and paired with a question an investor might raise.
- Ten criteriaA checklist of what the deck already meets and what it does not yet show.
- Adjustable lensCriteria weights and a feedback voice: VC partner, mentor or academic.
Principles
Built from the investor's side of the table
Constructive feedback
Strengths come first, followed by what to strengthen and why it matters to an investor.
Weighted to the thesis
Private equity, family offices, corporate and venture investors look for different things. The weights adapt to each.
About the author
Radoslav Vasina, PhD
Fund Manager & Investor
Pitchdeck Referee puts into software the way I have read pitch decks for more than 10 years: the same questions an investment committee asks, applied consistently to every company.
From 2013 to 2026 I led Investeers, a regulated alternative investment fund manager, as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Investeers was the investment manager of FIT (Innovation and Technology Fund), a public-private fund within Slovakia's National Holding Fund. Together with the team I built a portfolio of 16 technology companies, attracting co-investment worth more than half of the fund's own capital, predominantly from international investors.
As an Expert Evaluator (Horizon 2020) for the European Commission, I assessed innovation projects competing for EU funding, with a combined value of more than EUR 75 million. Building partnerships with strategic and financial investors has taken me from Singapore to Silicon Valley.
- CEO & Chairman, Investeers
- Regulated AIFM, 2013–2026
- Investment manager of FIT (Innovation and Technology Fund)
- Public-private fund, 16 portfolio companies
- Expert Evaluator (Horizon 2020), European Commission
- Research Executive Agency, 2019–2022
- PhD, Economics and Management of International Business
- Pan-European University, Bratislava