You need to raise some money for your awesome startup, only you need a pesky pitch deck to show venture capitalists (VC) and you don’t know what one looks like?
It’s not all that easy to get access to pitch decks, so I have done the work for you.
This blog is a collection of pitch decks that are available to view online. Some are exceptional (LinkedIn) and some I recommend just for a little inspiration.
I have also created a template you can download here: Template pitch deck which I recommend using.
Index of startup pitch decks for VC
Mattermark
Danielle Morill from Mattermark did a decent job on their VC pitch deck. Here are two versions of their Series-A deck so you can see how it changed. It is well worth reading the Medium article below about the story behind their raise.
Read: Welcoming Brad Feld to the Mattermark Team
Mattermark Series-A Version 1
Mattermark Series-A Version 2
Reid Hoffman the founder of LinkedIn wrote the most exceptional post about their Series-B pitch deck and the thinking behind each slide. I can not recommend that you study this most highly enough.
Read: Exceptional blog on the Series-B deck by Reid Hoffman
AirBnB
This is the Seed VC pitch deck for AirBnB. It is fairly basic, but it gets the point across.
Read: Forbes article on lessons from their deck
Mixpanel
This is the series-B deck for Mixpanel that helped them raise $65m. For a later stage round, this is very basic and shows more metrics (that earlier stage companies don’t have).
Read: About open sourcing their pitch deck
Moz
This is the series-B deck for SeoMoz (Rebranded to Moz) with which they raised $18m. Read the below link, there is a wealth of information to learn from.
Read: Moz’s $18 Million Venture Financing: Our Story, Metrics and Future
Flowtab
I love the Flowtab guys because as they failed, they made a whole lot of effort to help other founders and shared all the docs that might be helpful to other founders.
Read: great collection of resources.
Read about their failure: Techcrunch article about the failure
Biogrify
Seed deck with good visual presentation.
Task.ly
Seed VC deck with a step by step progression to explain problem, product and solution.
Dwolla
Decent deck to explain a fairly complicated fintech startup.
Buffer
In the spirit of the open culture at buffer they released their pitch deck. The deck is fine, but the detailed blog below is worth a read.
Read: Raising funds
Buzzfeed
This is a pretty decent deck that Buzzfeed used to raise their seed round in 2008.
Read: Some comments on the pitch deck
Foursquare
Everyone has heard of Foursquare, here’s the deck they used to get started.
Waygo
Popsurvey
Acme Power
Read: Techcrunch article into the slides
Piccsy
Web-based presentation
Speakeasy
Web-based presentation
