Running a pitch session
Plan a pitch evening for your members: pick the founders and their order, give each one their minutes, invite members, send the invitations and run the night.
A pitch session is an evening (or a morning) where several founders pitch to your members in turn. Delsivo keeps the line-up, the times, who is invited and who is coming, and shows each founder only their own slot. Nothing goes to a member or a founder until a person sends it.
Pitch sessions appears in the sidebar when the fund type is Angel network (Settings, Fund profile).
Create a session
- Open Pitch sessions and click New session.
- Give it a Title, the Day, when it Starts and, if you like, its Planned end. Times are in the fund's time zone.
- Add Where (the venue, or Online) and a Call link for members joining remotely.
- Use Notes for the team for the host, catering or who introduces each founder. Members and founders never see these notes.
- Click Create draft.
The session opens with a step tracker: Details, Line-up, Who to invite, Invitations sent, Done.
Build the line-up
On the Line-up tab, click Add companies and tick the deals that pitch. You see the deals you can open, newest activity first; passed and closed deals aren't offered. Analysts see the deals they own.
Each company gets 10 minutes to start, questions included. Change the minutes with the selector on the row and move companies with the arrows. Every change saves at once and the start times move with it. Remove a company with the cross; the toast offers Undo.
The Timing card shows when the pitches end. If they run past the planned end, it says so, so you can trim minutes or move the end.
Choose who to invite
On the Invitations tab, tick the members and committee members to invite, then click Save invitations. Invite every member adds everyone with the Member role. Saving the list sends nothing.
People join the list from Settings, Team. Members need the Member role.
Send the invitations
When the line-up and the list are ready, click Schedule and send invitations in the side card. The dialog shows who gets what:
| Who | What they get |
|---|---|
| Invited members | The time, the place, the call link and the line-up with each company's time, and a link to reply |
| Founders | Their own slot only: the session's name, their start time and minutes, the place and call link, in your portal's branding |
Untick either group to leave it out. If a company has no founder account on your portal, the dialog names it so you can tell the founders yourself. Confirm and the session moves to Scheduled.
Only an admin, or a partner who approves outbound, can send. Analysts and partners without approvals plan the session and ask them.
Changing a scheduled session
Change the details or the line-up as before. The side card then says the session changed since the invitations went out. Click Send the update: only people whose details changed, or who were added since, get a new email. Sending again without a change sends nothing.
On the night
The Run of show tab lists the companies in order with their times and marks the one On now. For each company it shows whether members can see it:
- Shared with members: members read the summary a person approved and can answer. The row shows how many are interested, the soft commitments so far and the total against the allocation.
- Not shared yet: click Share with members to open the deal's Members tab, approve the summary and share it. See Sharing a deal with members.
Members can't mark interest in a company until a person has shared it. Delsivo never shares a deal on its own.
After the session, tick Attended next to each person on the Invitations tab, then choose Mark as done from the menu beside Edit details. Members can still answer on companies that are open for interest.
Cancel or delete
Cancel the session (in the menu) stops any invitation emails that haven't gone out yet, and members no longer see it as upcoming. A cancelled session can be reopened as a draft. Only a draft or cancelled session can be deleted.
Frequently asked questions
Can founders see who else is pitching?
No. A founder sees only their own slot on the portal and in their email: the session's name, their time, their minutes and the place.
Do members see our notes or scores?
No. Members see the session's time and place, the line-up, the summary a person approved for each shared company, the deal lead and their own answer. Never the team's notes, screening scores or other members' answers.
Who can see a draft?
Only the team. Members don't see a session until it is scheduled, and only if they are invited.
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