Building the Investment Deck Research Process at SlydS

Suvin joined SlydS as an Investment Analyst and quickly took on full ownership of the research-to-narrative pipeline for startup clients. Each engagement started with two or three conversations with the founder: understanding the business model, the founder's own research, and what they needed the deck to accomplish.

From there, Suvin moved into sector research. He pulled from newsletters, LinkedIn, Twitter, published reports, and direct conversations with stakeholders connected to the sector. He used AI tools to surface hard-to-find public reports, but kept all analysis and synthesis in his own hands, skeptical of AI-generated conclusions.

The output was always a structured narrative: problem framing, market sizing, competitive benchmarking, tailwinds, and a conclusive view grounded in his own synthesis of the evidence. He built 50-plus investment decks across seed, Series A, Series B, and Series C stages, covering sectors including EV, fintech, clean tech, FMCG, logistics, and wellness, for clients in India and MENA.

One consistent adaptation across the work: calibrating the research emphasis to the company's stage. For ideation-stage companies, he shifted focus away from market sizing and toward product credibility and business model validation, recognizing that investors at that stage care more about the idea's defensibility than the TAM calculation.