[sonnyblarney]

Don't be distressed one bit.

There are tons of great applicants to YC, moroever, as you hint, it's going to be pretty hard to really evaluate these entities on a case by case basis.

Though I've never been on the finance side of days-long pitches, I have however done this for hiring, and I always felt bad in those situations wherein I was very tired and had some smart people in front of me, and I had to make a decision that was barely going to affect my life, but would definitely affect theirs quite dramatically; and one has very little information to go off of.

It's inherently noisy channel.

Just do your thing, and try not to worry about it.

I'll bet that anyone who makes it to any stage of interviewing has pretty good chops on some level.

(Easier said than done of course)