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400 people.
Two days.
One right person.

Kuba, Anna and Heyli · 3 min read

Kuba is a fintech founder. Anna is an angel investor. They went to the same conference two years in a row and never met. This year Heyli introduced them before day one.

One link

“How a link in my ticket email got me my first investor”

Kuba Mazur · Founder, Paylo

Every year I buy a ticket to Product Summit. Every year I come home with forty business cards.

I never write to any of them.

This year my ticket email had one more line.

See you at Product Summit 🎟️

Want to meet the right people there? Say hi to Heyli on WhatsApp before the event.

Chat with Heyli

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The ticket email with a link that opens a WhatsApp chat with Heyli.

Kuba Mazur · Founder, Paylo

I tapped it on the tram home. WhatsApp opened with a message ready to send. No app, no sign-up form.

A quick chat

Kuba Mazur · Founder, Paylo

Three days before the event, and I already had a plan. It felt like a friend who knows the whole guest list.

Heyli’s picks

Kuba Mazur · Founder, Paylo

No attendee list to scroll. Three names and one reason each. I just wrote a number.

The other side

“At events, I hide from founders with pitch decks”

Anna Lis · Angel investor

I go to Product Summit every year. I come for the talks.

But at every coffee break, five founders find me and open their laptops.

This year I told Heyli what I really look for: fintech founders who know the problem from the inside.

Two days before the summit, this email came.

From Heyli
To Anna
Subject

Kuba x Anna - worth meeting?

Hey Anna,

Kuba wants to meet you at Product Summit. He’s building Paylo, an app that helps small shops get paid faster.

Before Paylo, he ran payments at a bank for six years. You told me you look for fintech founders who know the problem from the inside. I think this fits.

Here is his LinkedIn.

Interested? Reply “Yes” and I’ll set up the intro. If not, tell me why, so I can make better matches.

Cheers,
Heyli

P.S. Kuba hasn’t seen your contact details, so you decide.

Anna Lis · Angel investor

Six years running payments at a bank. That’s the founder I look for. I replied “Yes” in one minute.

The intro

From Heyli
To Kuba, Anna
Subject

Kuba x Anna - intro

Hi Kuba and Anna,

You both said yes, so here you go.

Anna, Kuba is building Paylo. He ran payments at a bank for six years and knows why small shops wait 30 days for their money.

Kuba, Anna is an angel investor and a former CFO of a payments company. She backs early fintech teams.

Find each other after the opening keynote, at 10:30, at the coffee bar.

Heyli 💛

Kuba Mazur · Founder, Paylo

I walked in on day one with one name and one time. No reading badges. No circling the room.

Three months later

Kuba Mazur · Founder, Paylo

We talked for forty minutes. Not a pitch. A real conversation.

Ewa said yes too. Ten of her shops now test Paylo.

Anna Lis · Angel investor

Three months later I led Kuba’s pre-seed round.

My best deal this year started at a coffee break.

  • 1 link in the ticket email
  • 2 yeses
  • 40 min first coffee
  • 3 months to the first cheque

What they took away

Kuba Mazur Founder, Paylo

Don’t work the room. Walk in with one name.

  • The chat took three minutes, on the tram.
  • Heyli asked what I’m good at. That one answer got me the intro.

Anna Lis Angel investor

Say what you look for. Skip the pitch line.

  • I only met people I said yes to.
  • The intro already told me why Kuba was worth my time.

Magda Sowa Organizer, Product Summit Kraków

I added one link to the ticket email. Sponsors finally saw real meetings.

  • Attendees asked if Heyli will be back next year.
  • No app and no extra work for my team.

Your attendees came to meet people. Heyli makes sure they meet the right ones.

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