The TechCrunch information to the way to make an ideal startup pitch deck

The crew right here at TechCrunch has achieved lots of writing about making superb pitch decks through the years, and I figured it was time that I put collectively a set of all of it in a single useful spot.

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This put up has been up to date a bunch of occasions, most lately 17 February 2023

Do you have to / are you able to increase cash?

Earlier than you begin pitching

Particular person slides, damaged down

Among the slides are trickier than others; I made an annotated template that a number of hundred startups have used to lift cash efficiently, nevertheless it seems that even with an excellent template, there are pitfalls and issues that may go fallacious.

Listed below are a number of articles we wrote that will help you crack among the tougher components of the pitch.

In the course of the pitch course of

Pitch deck teardowns

In the event you’ve been wanting round on the net, you’ll have found out that it’s exceedingly uncommon to search out current samples of pitch decks that had been efficiently used to lift cash. That’s what I’m attempting to alter with the TechCrunch pitch deck teardowns.

It’s a sequence that’s been working for some time, with pitch decks for corporations of all totally different sizes and levels of fundraising. These teardowns embrace three issues I really like, three issues I’d enhance, a bunch of common observations concerning the deck and the complete deck so that you can take a more in-depth take a look at.

Here’s a record of the pitch deck teardowns to this point:

1.   Minut’s Series B stage deck that raised $15M, Printed Apr 28, 2022
2.   Momentum’s Seed stage deck that raised $5M, Printed Could 5, 2022
3.   Dutch’s Series A stage deck that raised $20M, Printed Could 12, 2022
4.   BoxedUp, Inc.’s Seed stage deck that raised $2.3M, Printed Could 19, 2022
5.   Lumigo’s Series A stage deck that raised $29M, Printed Could 26, 2022
6.   Encore’s Seed stage deck that raised $3M, Printed June 2, 2022
7.   Lunchbox’s Series B stage deck that raised $50M, Printed June 9, 2022
8.   Ergeon’s Series B stage deck that raised $40M, Printed Jun 16, 2022
9.   WayRay’s Series E stage deck that raised $80M, Printed 23 Jun, 2022
10.   Wilco’s Seed stage deck that raised $7M, Printed 30 Jun, 2022
11.   Enduring Planet’s Seed stage deck that raised $2M, Printed 7 Jul, 2022
12.   Forethought’s Series C stage deck that raised $65M, Printed 14 Jul, 2022
13.   Arkive’s Seed stage deck that raised $9.7M, Printed July 21, 2022
14.   Alto Pharmacy’s Series E stage deck that raised $200M, Printed July 28, 2022
15.   Glambook’s Seed stage deck that raised $2.5M, Printed August 4, 2022
16.   Five Flute’s Pre-seed stage deck that raised $1.2M, Printed Aug 11, 2022
17.   Mi Terro’s Seed stage deck that raised $1.5M, Printed Aug 11, 2022
18.   SIMBA Chain’s Series A stage deck that raised $25M, Printed Aug 25, 2022
19.   Front’s Series D stage deck that raised $65M, Printed Sep 1, 2022
20.   Helu.io’s Series A stage deck that raised $9.8M, Printed Sep 15, 2022
21.   Party Round’s Angel stage deck that raised $7M, Printed Sep 22, 2022
22.   Rokoko’s Strategic Extension stage deck that raised $3M, Printed Sep 29, 2022
23.   Vori’s Series A stage deck that raised $10M, Printed Oct 5, 2022
24.   Supliful’s Seed stage deck that raised $1M, Printed Oct 13, 2022
25.   Palau Project ‘s Pre-seed stage deck that raised $125K, Printed Oct 25, 2022
26.   Syneroid Technologies Corp.’s Seed stage deck that raised $500K, Printed Nov 10, 2022
27.   Sateliot’s Series A stage deck that raised $11.4M, Printed Nov 17, 2022
28.   Juro ‘s Series B stage deck that raised $23M, Printed Nov 25, 2022
29.   Hour One’s Series A stage deck that raised $20M, Printed Dec 1, 2022
30.   Rootine’s Series A stage deck that raised $10M, Printed Dec 8, 2022
31.   MedCrypt’s Series B stage deck that raised $25M, Printed Dec 15, 2022
32.   Card Blanch’s Angel stage deck that raised $460K, Printed Dec 22, 2022
33.   Scrintal’s Seed stage deck that raised $1M, Printed Jan 19, 2023
34.   Orange’s Seed stage deck that raised $2.5M, Printed Jan 26, 2023
35.   Laoshi’s Angel stage deck that raised $570K, Printed Feb 2, 2023
36.   Spinach.io’s Seed stage deck that raised $3.5M, Printed Feb 9, 2023
37.   Incymo AI’s Seed stage deck that raised $850K, Printed Feb 16, 2023

Oh, and if you want to submit your own pitch deck for a teardown, I’ve written a bit more about how to do that, too.

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