Pitch Deck Teardown
In an industry where creators are often tossed aside like yesterday’s lootboxes, MegaMod swoops in with a heroic promise to put them front and center.
Feel Therapeutics has a pretty original deck, with some twists we rarely see; the company did a great job telling the overall story.
Black founders are customizing ChatGPT as crypto makes a comeback
This week on Equity, we discussed some big news that really matters: How Black founders are addressing the diversity gap in AI chatbots. We’ve all…
How well did the company do telling its own story in the form of its angel pitch deck? Let’s take a look.
The RAW Dating App aims to shake up the dating scheme by shedding the fake, TikTok-ified, heavily filtered photos and replacing them with a more genuine, unvarnished experience. The app…
Terra One’s pitch deck has a few wins, but also a few misses. Here’s how to fix that.
Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there’s important information missing too.
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The deck included some redacted numbers, but there was still enough data to get a good picture.
$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups
Good news, crypto founders! Venture capital activity is picking up in the sector, recovering from the multiyear lows investments fell to in late 2023. Put…
Aside from the crucial omission of an Ask and Use of Funds slide, just about every slide in the deck felt almost very good — but then stumbled by overlooking…
While Geodesic.Life’s deck impresses with its aesthetic design, featuring a tasteful color palette, appealing illustrations and a concise text, it does have some crucial shortcomings.
Xpanceo has shared its complete presentation deck, consisting of 19 slides. Dive into its pitch deck to learn how the company raised $40 million.
This week we look at Queerie, a dating app aimed specifically at LGBTQIA+ folks. It’s a very early-stage company that’s raising just $300,000.
It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I…
In an era where data is king and its volume and complexity are exploding, Protecto aims to eliminate the long-standing dilemma businesses face between leveraging AI’s power while ensuring data…
The company is promising to make marketing for games easier, and we know that great marketing is one of the crucial differences between an OK outcome and a smash-hit success.
Astek Diagnostics closed a $2 million round for its urine diagnostics system, despite the fact that raising money for medtech isn’t for the faint of heart. The company’s deck has…
In the midst of CommandBar’s pretty slim pitch deck, there are some innovations that are worth shining a light on.
Equals’ Series A deck certainly looks good, and it does a ton of things well. But there are a few areas where it can do better. Let’s take a look!
Xyte’s pitch deck has a lot of slides, but how much of it was actually useful? Let’s take a look.
This week, we’re taking a look at what PhageLab got right in this pitch deck and why it could use some judicious pruning.
Doola’s pitch deck does a few things extremely well, but the problem is, it leaves a ton out, too. Here’s why that won’t work for most startups.
Just tacking AI onto a product isn’t enough, and investors are hoping that the technology will lead to more innovation in the space.
This week, we’re taking a look at a pitch deck from Rypplzz (pronounced “ripples”), a spatial technology startup that recently raised $3 million.
The pitch deck video analytics firm Qortex used to raise its $10M seed round has a lot missing, but it does get some things right.
This week, we are taking a closer look at Pepper Bio’s seed pitch deck that landed the company $6.5 million.
Positioning itself as the “Etsy of food,” HomeCooks has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. What did it do right in its crowdfunding campaign slides?
Even though the economy is signaling a bit of a bounce-back, 2024 might not be much better than 2023 when it comes to startups sharing a piece of the budget…
Let’s take a deep dive into the pitch deck that climate tech startup Metafuels used to raise its $8 million seed round.