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Masterclass: a shared foundation
For cohorts, we begin with audience, story structure and examples. Your programme team and ours agree the relevant questions and preparation.
A pitch your audience can understand quickly.
What does your audience need to understand before asking the next question? We work with founders and game studios on the story, deck and delivery, using specific feedback and rehearsal.
The next question matters more than the next slide.
An investor needs different evidence from a publisher or customer. We help your team connect the problem, value, business model and the question you want the audience to answer. Substance comes before persuasive wording.
gamescom invest circle
gamescom invest circle: Studio selection and pitch training
PIRATEx supported selection of ten studios and prepared teams through pitch training. The programme combined pitches, keynotes and networking.
Read the project accountHow the work fits together
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Hot seat: your deck
Individual coaching examines sequence, claims, evidence and timing. You receive concrete revision advice for your actual pitch rather than a borrowed template.
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Rehearsal: practise the conversation
Present in the agreed time window and work through questions. We examine what is clear, where evidence is missing and whether the next step is understandable.
Illustrative pitch revision
Before: “We combine AI, analytics and automation in one platform.”
A more useful structure: “Operations teams lose time reconciling orders across systems. Here is the task our product changes, the evidence from our tests and the decision we need from this audience.” Your real figures and proof belong in those places.
Rehearsal checks: can a listener explain the problem, identify the evidence, understand the business and repeat the request? We work on those questions with your actual material.
Work with Manuel Koelman
Manuel is an entrepreneur, investor and PIRATE founder. His coaching connects the presentation with the business decision behind it.
Read Manuel’s profile and topics →“Manuel and the whole PIRATEx crew helped us really transform our pitch from a boilerplate pitch to something really impactful. Manuel's feedback was precise, constructive, and motivating. THANK YOU!!”
Yacine “Jasu” Ouarab, Co-founder & CEO, GamingCouch.com
Your team and ours
A founder team can commission individual sessions. Accelerators and funded programmes agree the masterclass, coaching time per team and any rehearsal as a defined scope. Your team supplies and checks market, product and financial information. Funding and competition results are not training commitments. The proposal records the work, client inputs, approvals, external costs and handovers.
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Keep working: Pitch Academy →Tell us what you have in mind
Send the target audience, occasion, language and pitch duration. Your deck need not be finished. We will discuss an individual session or a programme for several teams.
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