Your founders can pitch.
Can they actually talk to you?
Raise Ready™ is an 8-week accelerator that teaches founders to meet your investment milestones, speak to your investing themes, and have the deeper conversations that actually close rounds. Not just a better pitch deck.
Talk to RandyA pitch is not a conversation.
Most founders walk into an investor meeting ready to present, not ready to engage. They cannot speak to your investing themes, they do not know which milestones matter to you, and they cannot answer the follow-up questions about how their IP or expertise actually reduces your risk. That gap costs you time, and it costs them the round.
Founders who meet you where you are.
Raise Ready is an 8-week live cohort, capped at 10 companies, co-facilitated by Randy Shawn Fisher and Randall Reade. Connected to DC Arch Angels and built on The CLEAR Method™, a structured system for turning stakeholder insight into investor conviction.
Founders study investor milestones, thesis, and investing themes, not just pitch mechanics.
Founders learn to explain how their patents, licenses, and team expertise reduce risk and increase valuation.
Structured practice on the follow-up questions, objections, and diligence conversations that come after the pitch.
Founders arrive at your table speaking your language, not reciting theirs.
IP and expertise change the value conversation.
Founders often treat intellectual property and team expertise as a footnote in the deck. We teach them to treat it as leverage: how a patent position de-risks a market, how a licensing or ownership structure protects a moat, and how specific technical expertise signals execution capability. Founders who can make that case clearly are easier for you to underwrite, and more compelling to fund.
Founders learn to explain what their IP actually protects, and why that matters to your downside case.
Founders learn to connect their own or their team's expertise directly to execution risk and speed to market.
Founders learn which milestones actually move you from interested to committed, at each stage of the raise.
Built for angel groups, family offices, and VC firms.
Raise Ready works with founders before they reach you, so the conversation you have is a real one.
Angel Groups
Family Offices
Venture Capital Firms
We teach founders to connect and anticipate investor needs.
"Founders who understand what you're looking for close faster than founders who simply pitch harder."
Raise Ready is co-facilitated by Randy Shawn Fisher and Randall Reade. Cohorts are capped at 10 companies. Every session is live. Every founder leaves able to speak your language, not just their own.
Ready to work with founders who speak your language?
Cohorts are capped at 10 companies. Spots fill fast.
Reach out to discuss enrolling your portfolio companies or referring your pipeline.
