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The Real Sharkz, pre-seed deck

A real founder, a real raise, sixteen slides. Shown with the founder's written permission.

Real work, shown with permission

Company
The Real Sharkz (TRS), a reward-based backing platform for Indian startups, live at therealsharkz.in (opens in a new tab)
Founders
SM Zeyauddin (Founder & CEO) and Sahebdad (Co-founder & CTO)
Stage
Pre-seed, raising ₹2.07 Cr
What I built
This 16-slide investor deck (version 4, 17 September 2026) and the 3-year financial model behind it
Fee
None. It was a free project, so it is not counted in the paid-project total on the home page.
Permission
SM Zeyauddin agreed in writing on LinkedIn on 15 October 2026 that the deck can be shown here. The financial model stays private at his request, so it is not shown or offered for download.
Outcome
This page makes no claim about the raise. If the founder shares a result and agrees to it being published, it will appear here.

The slides say “Confidential” because they were written for investors. Nothing on them has been changed for this page.

What to look at first

All 16 slides

  1. Slide 1 of 16, title. The Real Sharkz: backing for the founders India's capital never reaches. A reward-based platform where anyone can support an Indian startup from ₹10. Raising ₹2.07 Cr pre-seed, 24 months budgeted. Founders SM Zeyauddin and Sahebdad. Marked confidential, August 2026. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 1 of 16: TitleWhy it works. The ask is on the cover. ₹2.07 Cr and “24 months, fully budgeted” come before any story, so an investor knows the size of the conversation from the first second.
  2. Slide 2 of 16, company purpose in one sentence: anyone in India can back a vetted early-stage startup from ₹10 through voluntary, reward-based, milestone-gated support, and overlooked founders get a public stage to raise on. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 2 of 16: Company purpose
  3. Slide 3 of 16, problem: three barriers. Founders outside the metros are filtered out by warm-intro culture; retail backers are shut out of accredited-only platforms; the alternatives are bootstrapping, personal loans or family money. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 3 of 16: Problem
  4. Slide 4 of 16, how backing works and why it is legal. A backer gives a voluntary contribution from ₹10, never an investment. A backer gets perks, recognition and reward points, and funds release as the startup hits milestones. No securities are offered. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 4 of 16: How backing worksWhy it works. The legal question is answered on slide 4 instead of being left for diligence. A reward-based platform stands or falls on whether it sells securities, so the slide says what a backer gives, what a backer gets, and why no security is offered.
  5. Slide 5 of 16, team. SM Zeyauddin, Founder and CEO: Computer Science and Engineering 2024, Smart India Hackathon finalist 2023. Sahebdad, Co-founder and CTO, owns the build. The platform was built in-house, avoiding ₹25 to 40 lakh of agency cost. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 5 of 16: Team
  6. Slide 6 of 16, product live today at therealsharkz.in: vetted listings behind a 5-gate vetting process, contributions from ₹10 with KYC, milestone-gated disbursement, TRS Learn at ₹49, ₹99 and ₹149, and reward points. Traction is stated as zero until the first real campaign. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 6 of 16: Product
  7. Slide 7 of 16, why now: UPI made ₹10 payments practical, startup formation has spread beyond the metros, small-ticket support is learned behavior, and the reward route sits outside the accredited-investor rules. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 7 of 16: Why now
  8. Slide 8 of 16, market built bottom-up. Startups listed: 100, 400 and 1,000. Campaigns completed at 60%: 60, 240 and 600. Money facilitated: ₹6.0 Cr, ₹36.0 Cr and ₹135.0 Cr. Active backers required: 42,857, 257,142 and 964,279. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 8 of 16: Market, built bottom-upWhy it works. The market is counted from the founder's own tables: listings × completion rate × average raise. It also states the hard constraint, about 964,000 active backers by Year 3, instead of hiding it.
  9. Slide 9 of 16, business model: a 4% facilitation fee on successful raises, TRS Learn tiers at ₹49, ₹99 and ₹149, and a rewards program priced into the model as a cost of about 1.1% of money facilitated. A 5 to 10% equity participation in onboarded startups is disclosed and carried at zero. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 9 of 16: Business model
  10. Slide 10 of 16, financials for Years 1 to 3. Revenue: ₹34.6 lakh, ₹1.90 Cr, ₹6.92 Cr. Payment processing: ₹6.0 lakh, ₹36.0 lakh, ₹1.35 Cr. Points cost: ₹6.5 lakh, ₹38.9 lakh, ₹1.46 Cr. Contribution: ₹22.1 lakh, ₹1.15 Cr, ₹4.11 Cr. EBITDA: minus ₹55.5 lakh, plus ₹11.7 lakh, plus ₹3.07 Cr. Closing cash: ₹1.52 Cr, ₹1.58 Cr, ₹3.88 Cr. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 10 of 16: FinancialsWhy it works. One model produces every figure, and the table shows the working: revenue minus payment processing minus points cost equals contribution in all three years. Year 1: ₹34.6 lakh minus ₹6.0 lakh minus ₹6.5 lakh is ₹22.1 lakh.
  11. Slide 11 of 16, go-to-market. 50,000 backers in Year 1 on a ₹2.16 lakh a month growth budget implies a blended acquisition cost of about ₹52, so acquisition is community-led: campus and incubator partners, each founder's own network, and TRS Learn and Rewards as the funnel. At a ₹250 paid cost the budget buys about 10,350 backers. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 11 of 16: Go-to-market
  12. Slide 12 of 16, unit economics. Backer lifetime value ₹166: ₹67 fee value net of processing and points, plus ₹99 from Learn. Against a ₹52 blended acquisition cost that is 3.2x; at a ₹250 paid-only cost it is 0.66x. The slide shows both. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 12 of 16: Unit economicsWhy it works. The failing case sits next to the working one. At the planned ₹52 blended acquisition cost, lifetime value is 3.2 times cost; at ₹250 paid-only it is 0.66 times. Showing where the model breaks is what makes the working case believable.
  13. Slide 13 of 16, competition on two axes, who may put money in and what they get back: accredited-only equity platforms on one side, and TRS alone in the open-to-everyone, reward-based quadrant. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 13 of 16: Competition
  14. Slide 14 of 16, growth roadmap in four phases: the reward platform in months 0 to 12; an accredited tier and a SEBI Innovation Sandbox application in months 12 to 24; AIF Category I registration in months 24 to 36; a full regulated ecosystem after month 36. This raise funds phase 1. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 14 of 16: Growth roadmap
  15. Slide 15 of 16, the ask: ₹2.07 Cr, ₹8.63 lakh a month for 24 months. Product and technology 40%, ₹82.8 lakh. Community and growth 25%, ₹51.8 lakh. Compliance and legal 15%, ₹31.1 lakh. Team and operations 15%, ₹31.1 lakh. Reserve 5%, ₹10.4 lakh. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 15 of 16: The ask: use of funds and runwayWhy it works. The ask, the burn and the runway are one calculation: ₹8.63 lakh a month × 24 months = ₹2.07 Cr, and the five use-of-funds lines add up to 100%.
  16. Slide 16 of 16, vision: an institute more than a company, with applications and learning in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. Raising ₹2.07 Cr pre-seed. (opens full size in a new tab)
    Slide 16 of 16: Vision

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