Naama Nicotra is back for round two. The founder and CEO of NakedPak, the first brand making microplastic-free meals with edible, hot-water-soluble packaging, sat down with me again to talk about the things we didn’t get to last time.

She told me about the moment she watched two men at an event bond instantly and what it revealed about why women in tech don’t form those same bonds.

She walked me through how she approaches a room where she knows no one, and she gave away her real pitching playbook, the one where she throws out the slide deck and asks the investor to talk first.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why the bonds women in tech build with each other are our real unfair advantage, and why we don’t lean on them enough
• How to walk into a room of strangers and actually start talking (Naama’s two best stories)
• The three pitch versions every founder should have, and how to know which one to use
• Why she stopped showing the deck in the meeting, and what happened to her conversion rate
• The fundraising advice she would give her past self: don’t start raising when you need the Money

About Naama:Naama Nicotra is the founder and CEO of NakedPak, the first brand to create edible, hot-water-soluble food packaging that leaves no plastic, no waste, and no chemicals behind.

She studied industrial design and served as the first training officer in a new IDF commando brigade.

Her perspective on fundraising, pitching, and showing up in rooms where you don’t belong yet is the most practical playbook I’ve heard from an early-stage founder.

Connect with Naama:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naama-nicotra-1b9232174/NakedPak: https://www.nakedpak.com/

Connect with Limor:Website: https://limorbergman.comPodcast: https://limorbergman.com/podcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/limorbergman/Substack: https://limorbergman.substack.com

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