Meet Jay Dickieson

Jay Dickieson is the founder and managing director of PitchBuilder. He works with founders and CEOs who are preparing to raise investment, helping them build pitch decks that make a credible commercial case to investors. He works directly with every PitchBuilder client. Over 15 years he has worked with more than 500 founders, CEOs and businesses across the UK, USA, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Canada, supporting close to £750 million ($1 billion) in funding rounds from pre-seed through to Series B. His clients have raised from investors including Goldman Sachs, NatWest, BGF, SFC Capital, Y Combinator and many more. His investor readiness experience has seen him build pitch decks, business plans and coach founders, including on a £1 million oversubscribed SaaS funding round with a Goldman Sachs term sheet, a $15 million renewable energy raise in the Bahamas, a £600k pre-seed round for a MedTech business on the SeedLegals SeedFAST platform, and buy-side due diligence for a $55 billion AUM private equity fund. He has also supported a range of accelerators and funds as they prepare their portfolio companies to raise capital, including Techstars at Hub71 in Abu Dhabi and the Caribbean Export Development Agency. He is a business mentor for The King’s Trust and has mentored students participating in the Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre at Queen’s University, Canada. Jay started his career in strategy consulting, working on board-level projects for Tesco, Sainsbury’s and AT&T. He later served as COO of an investor-funded consumer brand, where he led the business through a financial turnaround and international expansion into the US, China, Japan and the Middle East. He holds an MSc in Management with Distinction from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School) in London and a BA from Queen’s University in Canada. That combination of commercial strategy, financial analysis and first-hand experience of running a funded startup shapes how he approaches every pitch deck. He starts with the business model and the numbers, not the slides.