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cold email is dead. send a cake.

Pitch decks belong on cakes.

Tom Hammer Author
Partner @ a16z
1mo
William Lindholm if you can have a term sheet on a napkin, you can have a pitch deck on a cake
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Pick a VC each vc can only be sent 2 cakes / month in total.

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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)
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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.

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Pick as many VCs as you want — but each VC can only ever receive 2 cakes a month, total, across every founder. Once both slots are gone, they drop off the map. Prices unlock when you sign in. The 20 biggest funds (YC, Sequoia, a16z, Founders Fund, …) need a pitch application before we ship.

how this actually works

Step 1: Pick your VCs from a list of Sand Hill Road firms
Step 2: Upload your seed pitch deck PDF
Step 3: A QR code linking to your deck is piped onto the cake in edible icing

2 cakes per month per VC. We don't want to annoy them.

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