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Sheel Mohnot ✓
@pitdesi
GP @ Better Tomorrow Ventures
Someone just came and delivered an absolutely massive cake to our office as a pitch for their company.

Definitely one way to get attention! Who wants some cake? 🎂
A coldcake delivered to Better Tomorrow Ventures - a Seed Memo iced onto the cake with the BTV logo, teal-piped border, one corner already eaten
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"One founder is winning investors over with personalised cakes." Sent 7 cakes to a16z, Sequoia, Index Ventures and more. Got 5 partner meetings.
Alexandre Berkovic
CEO @ Sphinx (YC F24)
1w
Last week we had our office warming. Walked in and someone had sent us a cake from a company called daymaker. Genuinely the best pitch I've seen this year. Took the meeting before I'd finished a slice.
A coldcake delivered to Sphinx's office, decorated with a 'No Compliance Kills' Sphinx Compliance ad
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cakes → partner meetings

One client. February 2026.
a16z, Sequoia, Index. Documented in Sifted.

drag any cake. anywhere.

Sphinx cigarette pack cake - version 3
"the pack" v3
SphinxHQ pitch cake delivered to their headquarters
SphinxHQ HQ drop
Cherry Ventures coldcake delivery in their lobby
Cherry HQ.
Coldcake hand-delivered to Andrew Anderson at a16z on Sand Hill Road
Sand Hill Rd.
Fifteen Rippling coldcakes lined up for SF delivery
Rippling x 15.
Monk.com pitch cake
Monk.com.
Three Browserbase cakes labelled D, S, and B
D, S, B.
Daniel Wax from Virio personally delivering a cake
Daniel. legend.
Opencomputer.dev cake
opencomputer.dev
Flex and Spacer robotics coldcake - robot or cake?
robot or cake? yes.

sometimes it rains. we publish those too.

The Bay Area Observer · Obituaries · April 2026

Delivery Ops Desk

IN MEMORIAM

Ten cakes, ages 0 to 4 hours, killed at sunrise.

Ten rain-soaked cakes outside the Y Combinator campus on the morning of April 18, 2026.

The cakes, photographed at 9:14am PT outside the Y Combinator campus.

Y Combinator S26 opening day. Ten cakes. Ten partners. The forecast had said partly cloudy.

It started raining at 9:14 in the morning. By 10am, ten cakes looked like the photograph above.

A spokesperson for Daymaker Operations said: “We delivered them anyway. Two of them got meetings.”

In lieu of flowers, please send another cake.

Buried with Buttercream · April 18, 2026

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