Pitch Deck Teardown

About a year ago, I tore down a pitch deck by Mi Terro, founded by Robert Luo. Guess who’s back with another company? Luo has raised $1.5 million for Tanbii…

BusRight’s pitch deck is well-designed and full of careful touches.

Given that DeckMatch is a tool that evaluates pitch decks, we decided to tear down the deck it used to raise a $1 million seed round.

Growth rounds usually get a traction-forward pitch, but there are many ways to weave that narrative. Let’s see how ANYbotics does it.

For our 60th pitch deck teardown, we’re taking a closer look at a $1.5 million pre-seed round and the deck that helped raise it.

Even with some details omitted, we get a great picture of the company’s narrative structure.

Plastic in ocean bad. Plastic not in ocean good. That’s, in a nutshell, the pitch for CleanHub. The company has designed a whole business model and a track-and-trace model around…

GoodBuy Gear’s deck is not without its challenges, but there’s a lot to love, including some unusual choices that really worked out for the team.

Here’s a peek under the hood of the pitch deck that Nokod Security used to raise its $8M seed round.

It’s hard to choose from all the stuff that works in this deck because the Super.com team really knocked it out of the park.

Netmaker submitted its pitch deck to TechCrunch+, and today we’re taking a close look at the deck the company used to raise its $2.3 million round.

As a startup, it’s your job to explain to an investor that you’re on the right path. This deck doesn’t do that.

Here’s a deep dive into the slide deck that Oii.ai used to raise its $1.8 million seed round, highlighting what it got right and what it didn’t.

Here’s a full teardown of Faye’s 19-slide pitch deck with which it raised a $10 million Series A round.

Today, we’re looking at Ageras’ pitch deck, which it used to raise a $35 million private equity round to further expand its relatively late-stage product portfolio.

Fibery raised its round with a 15-slide deck and shared the whole thing with TechCrunch+. That’ll give us a good idea of how it landed its $5.2 million investment.

For this week’s teardown, Haje buddied up with the team at Trulytell to improve a slide deck until it became the perfect pitch deck.

Let’s dig in and look to see if we can find some clues as to why the company caught the eye of these investors.

The company didn’t remove any slides from its 18-slide deck, but it redacted revenue numbers and blurred customer and competitor logos.

Let’s examine what Diamond Standard got right, and wrong, in its Series A pitch deck that helped it raise $30 million.

The cat food industry is an extremely competitive market. So where does a company like Smalls fit in, and how does it know that it can continue growing?

Northspyre shared the deck it used to raise a $25 million Series B to bring costs under control for big building projects.

Prelaunch.com has quite a few wins in its pitch deck, but it’s missing some fundamentals as well.

Spanish upskilling startup StudentFinance used this deck to raise a $41 million Series A.

MiO Marketplace, a platform for media publishers and buyers, shared the deck it used to raise an angel round of $550,000 at a $3.6 million pre-money valuation.

There’s a lot to celebrate in Gable’s deck, and it does a good job walking through the company’s challenges. But it isn’t perfect.

The Uber deck has been floating around the internet for a while. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see what Uber got right — and where it made…

Incymo, which leverages machine learning to maximize advertising revenues for game publishers, shared the deck it used to raise an $850,000 seed round.

Spinach.io is a meeting tool designed for engineers to run stand-up meetings online. Here’s the business plan the company shared with investors.

Laoshi raised $570,000 for its very early-stage language-learning app targeted at Chinese tutors and their students. Here’s the deck it used to raise an angel round.