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Elizabeth Yin

Dunky AI - Practice your elevator pitch with Dunky AI

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Founders don't have time to work on a great pitch. So today, I'm excited to announce our launch of Dunky AI! We built Dunky AI to help you speed up the process of creating a compelling pitch. Work with Dunky to get instant feedback on how well you're communicating the most compelling components of your startup and understand what you need to address.

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Elizabeth Yin
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Elizabeth Yin here from Hustle Fund. A lot of founders have approached me over the years asking for feedback on their pitch before raising money. Unfortunately, we never figured out how to do this in a scaled way until now. So today we are launching Dunky AI, which is trained on our own data, and it should give you pretty accurate feedback as to what we would say at Hustle Fund. (Of course this is just one data point and tuned to the Hustle Fund investment model. So take this with a grain of salt. She also does make mistakes sometimes.) This is a low-pressure way to practice your pitch and address questions and concerns you will likely get from VCs before you pitch them. What you submit is not connected to our CRM - we won't look at that information (because who has time for that?) unless we need to debug something.
swati paliwal

@elizabeth_yin1 Loving this low-stakes way to polish a pitch, Elizabeth; super thoughtful for early founders grinding solo. One quick ask: what's the #1 pitch flaw Dunky catches most often that surprises founders?

Elizabeth Yin
Maker

@swati_paliwal It drills into the idea as well. It is able to scan competition from across the web and in our own datasets to determine if the idea is differentiated / unique. When I was a founder, my own startup idea was not differentiated, but it's hard to know what else is out there and who else is pitching something similar beyond the regular internet searching. Dunky can help illuminate that so you can address that.

Gabe Moronta

@elizabeth_yin1 Oh snap! I love this! And you're a VC, so I love this even more, someone who sees pitches for a living created this! Awesome!

Elizabeth Yin
Maker

@mogabr thank you!

Nayan Surya

one question - does this only shares feedback or it also helps to rework on the pitch?

Elizabeth Yin
Maker

@nayan_surya98 great q! right now it only shares feedback incl what needs to be addressed... but a rework of the pitch would be even better. great idea and thank you!

Anil Yadav

I’ve tried other pitch tools before, but this feels more interactive and actionable. It actually explains what to improve instead of generic tips

Elizabeth Yin
Maker

@anil_yadav38 thank you!

Van de Vouchy
Hey Elizabeth, that line about never figuring out how to give pitch feedback at scale is relatable for anyone who gets a lot of asks. Was there a specific week where the requests just piled up and you thought I want to help all these founders but there’s literally no way I can?
Elizabeth Yin
Maker

@vouchy every week :) (unfortunately). we see about 1000 pitches per month. When I was a founder lobbing in emails to VCs, my ask was for just 10-15 min of their time (which didn't sound like a lot to me). But now in getting those emails, it's just impossible.

Ugo

Hey, this is pretty awesome!

Does it also help you challenge ideas and sales angles, or mostly just the copy and tone?

Elizabeth Yin
Maker

@ugo_builds it challenges differentiation / how to stand out / concerns about the business model & approach, etc.

Jasmin Vaughan

I would definitely use this! How long does it allow you to record? Asking because I'm wondering if this also work for meeting presentation.

Carlos Lourenco

Congrats on the launch! Is the feedback provided by Dunky static (a scorecard-style report) or conversational, meaning can founders go back and forth with Dunky to workshop specific sections like traction or market size?