RMFG_$4.5M
_Seed · 2025
Azoma®
AI visibility for the AI-search era. 19 slides led by a "Who we are" page that pre-sells the founders.
- Stage
- Seed
- Raised
- $4M
- Sector
- AI Search
- Year
- 2025
- Lead
- Y Combinator
The Deck.
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HelloVC Analysis.
_©26Azoma raised $4M for AI search visibility. 19 slides, founders on slide 2, ex-Amazon + AI-PhD bench. Below: when to break the rule of "save the team slide for last."
Why this deck works
Slide 2 is unusual: "WHO WE ARE." Most decks bury bios in slide 11. Azoma puts the founders second, before the problem and product. That's a confidence move — and a defensible one when the founder credentials are this overwhelming.
What works Max Sinclair spent six years at Amazon, owning customer browse and catalogue experience. Co-founder Timur Luguev is an ERCIM Fellow with 8 years in AI research. For a startup building AI search infrastructure, ex-Amazon-Search + AI-PhD is the unfair advantage. Don't wait until slide 11 to play that card.
19 slides is long, but the deck earns the room — a robust founder slide, a long traction story, and a complete product narrative.
Three things to steal
- Lead with founder-market fit when it's overwhelming. Ex-Amazon Search building AI search is the unfair advantage. Don't bury it.
- Specific titles beat resume bullets. "Owned customer browse and catalogue experience for Amazon EU" is concrete. "Led teams" is not.
- Co-founder credentials on the same slide. Don't separate. The pair is the bet.
