market.
Is the opportunity large, growing, and structurally attractive?
achievate · founder's office intern · jun–aug 2025
from opportunity
to conviction.
At Achievate, I helped turn startup information into investor memos and supported the outreach and follow-through around fundraising.
Explore the work ↓my role
understand the business.
clarify the opportunity.
I worked inside the founder's office across startup evaluation, investor outreach, and live fundraising execution.
My role connected both sides of the table: understanding a business well enough to frame its opportunity, then keeping the right investor conversations moving.
20+pitch decks screened each month
investor outreach
Venture capital, private equity, and high-net-worth investors.
01 / understand the opportunity
finding the signal inside the deck.
I screened pitch decks across market, team, and traction. That review fed into the investor memos and deal summaries I drafted.
The output: a clearer view of the business and the information behind its investment story.
team.
Does the founding team have the insight and ability to execute?
traction.
Is there evidence that the business is earning momentum?
02 / make it easier to evaluate
the thinking,
on the page.
Two investment memos I prepared during my internship. Each brings the problem, product, and investment thesis into a concise business narrative.
Beauty commerce · SaaS + B2B
GlamPlus
Connecting the product to the business opportunity.
- The problem
- Fragmented procurement and manual operations for salons and beauty businesses.
- The solution
- A combined software suite and marketplace for procurement, inventory, and customer management.
- How I framed it
- The memo frames digitisation of salon operations as the opportunity, bringing the product, operator experience, and repeat purchasing behaviour into one investment narrative.
Consumer technology · Social connection
Helloha
Explaining where a new category fits.
- The problem
- A gap in meaningful, non-romantic connection for young people.
- The solution
- Asynchronous video, conversation prompts, and social features designed around friendship.
- How I framed it
- The memo positions the product between social networks, dating, and wellness, connecting its audience, product choices, and proposed routes to monetisation.
03 / keep conversations moving
keeping momentum
across the funnel.
I tracked outreach, coordinated follow-ups, and maintained continuity across live fundraising and partnership conversations.
- 01Track outreach
Maintain a view of investor conversations.
- 02Coordinate follow-ups
Help move the next conversation forward.
- 03Carry context
Keep the fundraising pipeline up to date.
what I took away
a strong deck starts a conversation.
Clear reasoning and consistent follow-through help carry it forward. Working across evaluation, memo writing, and outreach gave me a view of how those pieces fit together.