The DTC Investor Red Flags - 2025 Edition

THE DTC INVESTOR RED FLAGS (2025 EDITION)
What makes VCs ghost your deck in 10 seconds

Fundraising in 2025 is brutal. Investors are sharper, pickier, and faster to walk away. One wrong line in your deck, one missing metric, one lazy founder trope, and your shot at funding is gone.

The Investor Red Flags Cheat Sheet is a one-slide Drop from Co-Foundry that calls out the signals that kill deals instantly:

• Weak or unclear CAC:LTV math
• Over-reliance on acquisition with no retention story
• Pastel “clean” clones with zero moat
• Subscription abuse and churn machines
• Founder stories that feel like copy-paste clichés

This isn’t advice. It’s a warning.

Download it free.
Use it as a filter before you pitch.
Kill the red flags before they kill your round.