From Pitch Deck to Series A in 10 Weeks
The Situation
A Dubai-based fintech founder had a validated idea and a lead investor interested — but no product. His previous development partner had burned through 4 months and AED 180,000 with nothing shippable to show for it. The investor gave him a deadline: demonstrate a working product in 12 weeks or the term sheet dies.
He found us through a strategic audit we'd done on his existing codebase. The audit revealed the previous team had over-architected a prototype that should have been lean. We showed him exactly where the money went and why it didn't produce results.
What We Built
A fully functional fintech MVP — multi-currency transaction processing, KYC/AML compliance integration, user onboarding flow, admin dashboard, and investor-ready analytics. Not a prototype. A working product his pilot users actually transacted through.
Cross-platform mobile application deployed to both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Real users. Real transactions. Real traction data for the investor pitch.
Architecture designed for scale from day one — when the Series A closed, the platform handled 10x load without a rewrite.
The Results
What Made This Work
We killed 60% of the features. The investor needed to see transaction flow and traction, not an admin panel with 47 settings. We launched what mattered and built the rest post-funding.
Infrastructure-as-code from day one meant the platform scaled without emergency rewrites when user growth spiked.
Weekly demos, not monthly status reports. The founder and his investor saw progress every 7 days. Confidence stayed high, decisions stayed fast.
What We'd Do Differently
The 12-week timeline worked because the founder was technical and could make decisions fast. A non-technical founder with committee-based approvals would have needed 16-18 weeks for the same scope. Our timelines assume one decision-maker with authority — if that's not your structure, we'll scope accordingly.
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