INVITE-ONLY · EARLY ACCESS · OCT 1

9 minutes decides it.

Founders pitch on video — one minute, then three, then five. Investors watch only what they asked to see, and nobody gets cold-emailed. The warm intro, without the introduction.

Apply as an investor I'm raising

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What do you want to see?

Nothing outside this reaches you.

Fintech AI infra Climate Pre-seed Seed Series A

DAILY CAP

Fifteen minutes of pitches a day, maximum.

Show me founders

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MINUTE 1

0:47

Vinemark

Fintech · Seed · Lisbon

Instant settlement for SMB marketplaces across nine markets.

Skip

Keep

✓

Kept. Three minutes unlocked.

The founder sees a keep. A skip they'd never hear about.

Still anonymousInvestor A

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MINUTE 3

2:11

ARR

€1.4M

GROWTH

18%

TEAM

Raising €6M Series A. Two ex-Adyen founders, 340 SMB customers.

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Ask anything

INVESTOR CWhat's churn on the SMB tier?

ANA · FOUNDER2.1% monthly, down from 4% since we shipped instant payouts.

Ask as Investor A — they won't see your name

Answered once, visible to every investor watching.

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NINE MINUTES IN

Vinemark is fully open to you

Series A deckOpen

ana@vinemark.ioCopy

Both foundersView

THEIR ASK €6M Series A · €1.4M ARR · 18% MoM

YOUR NOTES Strong on retention. Check payout margins.

Introduce myself

You're talking directly now

Grapeleaf steps out. No broker, no success fee, no thread to manage.

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Your pitch, three lengths

Publish all three to go live.

The hook0:58 · published

✓

The business2:54 · published

✓

The deep diveRecord now

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Go live

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This week

Aug 18 – 25

Saw your 1 min312

Finished it194

3 min61

Unlocked you

Seven verified investors have your deck and your email.

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Where you lose them

Your 3 min · 61 viewers

DROP-OFF Most investors leave at 1:48 — right after the pricing slide.

Recut that minute. Nobody else tells you this.

Set your filter

Ten screens, two seconds each — filter, watch, keep, unlock, say hello.

THE LADDER

Attention has to be earned in one direction only.

Every pitch is three cuts. An investor only reaches the next one by choosing to. Contact details come last, and only if they still want them.

1MINUTE

The hook

Company, sector, stage, one line. Skip it and the founder is never told — silence is the default, not rejection.

3MINUTES

The business

ARR, growth, team, what you're raising. Unlocked only by a thumbs up on the first minute.

5MINUTES

The deep dive

Then — and only then — the deck, the Q&A, the LinkedIns, the email. Nine minutes in, the investor decides whether to say hello.

Grapeleaf steps out at hello. No chat, no broker, no success fee. When an investor introduces themselves, you're talking directly — email, calendar, however you work.

START HERE — WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

INVESTOR →

I fund companies

VC, angel or scout. You want filtered deal flow you actually chose — and an inbox nobody can reach.

Zero inbound Anonymous until you decide

FOUNDER / OPERATOR →

I'm raising

Pre-seed to Series A. You want real investors watching your pitch — not another intro request into the void.

Pitch once, reach many See where they drop off

Both? Pick either — you can tell us in the form.

FOR INVESTORS

Deal flow you set the terms of.

You pick the sectors, stages, geographies and how many minutes a day you'll spend. Nothing outside that reaches you. Nothing at all reaches your inbox.

Actually, I'm a founder →

01 · FILTER Only what you asked for Sector, stage, geography, cheque size — change it any time. A daily minute cap keeps a session finite.

Fintech Seed Europe 15 min/day

02 · ANONYMITY You're “Investor A” until you aren't Watch, skip and ask questions without a founder ever learning who looked. Your name appears the moment you choose to introduce yourself — never before.

03 · QUIET BY DESIGN One email. Monday. A weekly digest of new founders matching your filter. No mid-week pings, no founder DMs, no “just circling back”.

A SESSION, END TO END

162 founders match today. Watch a minute each.

2Keep six. Everything else disappears, silently.

3Two earn the full nine. Ask anonymous questions.

4Introduce yourself to one. That's the deal.

INVESTOR / SCOUT MEMBERSHIP

$1,000/ year

Unlimited filtered deal flow Zero inbound, ever Anonymous questions until you say otherwise No per-intro fees, no carry, no success fees

Early access members are verified by hand — fund or angel, work email, and one proof point. Reviewed in 24 hours.

Request investor access

FOR FOUNDERS & OPERATORS

Record it once. Real investors watch.

Three cuts of your pitch, always live, in front of verified investors who chose your sector and stage. No warm-intro scavenger hunt, no forwarded deck dying in a thread.

Actually, I'm an investor →

01 · THREE CUTS One, three, five minutes Publish all three and you're live. Every investor who matches your sector and stage can see the first minute — the rest they have to earn their way into.

02 · THE FUNNEL See exactly where you lose them Views, completion, drop-off timestamps. “Most investors leave your 3 min at 1:48” is a fundable insight. Nobody else gives you that.

03 · CONTROL Hide from whoever you want Block named funds and competitors' investors. Pause your profile in one tap. Contact details stay locked until someone finishes all nine minutes.

YOUR WEEK, ONE SCREEN

Saw your 1 min312

Watched it all194

3 min61

Unlocked you

Seven verified investors saw your deck, your metrics and your email this week — because they wanted to.

FOUNDER MEMBERSHIP EARLY ACCESS PRICING

$300/ 3 months

or $150 monthly · no per-intro fees, no success fees

Three pitch videos, always live Full funnel & drop-off analytics Public Q&A you answer once, for everyone One company per account — no agents, no spam

Claim a founder slot

WHY IT HOLDS

Three rules we won't trade away.

Investors initiate, or nothing happens A founder can never reach an investor's inbox on Grapeleaf. That single constraint is why investors show up at all.

Every investor is verified Fund or angel, work email, and one proof point — portfolio page, Crunchbase, or a vouch from a member. Founders are handing over nine minutes; the floor has to be real.

A skip is silent Founders are never told who passed. No rejection theatre, no scores, no leaderboards — just the ones who leaned in.

EARLY ACCESS PROGRAM

Get in before October 1.

We're opening Grapeleaf with a hand-picked first cohort at SF & LA Tech Week. Invite codes go out in waves — investors first, then the founders they'd want to see.

Founding-cohort pricing, locked for a year

Ambassador codes — invite someone, their first month is free

Direct line to us while we shape the nine minutes

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