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Pitch Deck Teardown: SquadTrip’s $1.5M pre-seed deck 2023-08-04For our 60th pitch deck teardown, we’re taking a closer look at a $1.5 million pre-seed round and

Pitch Deck Teardown: Unito’s $20M Series B deck 2023-07-28Even with some details omitted, we get a great picture of the company’s narrative structure. Unito is

Sharing the decks we used to raise a $16M Series A with a16z 2023-07-11Today, we’re paying it forward by sharing the pitch and data decks

Pitch Deck Teardown: Oii.ai’s $1.9M seed deck 2023-06-02Here’s a deep dive into the slide deck that Oii.ai used to raise its $1.8 million seed round,

This 2004 LinkedIn pitch deck is an amazing, nostalgic time capsule 2023-03-07Reid Hoffman and his cofounders were seeking funding in an era when eBay was

These are the top 3 most important slides in your pitch deck 2022-09-04 https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/04/these-are-the-top-3-most-important-slides-in-your-pitch-deck/ Some slides carry more weight than others — and three of

Remove that ‘exit strategy’ slide from your pitch deck 2022-07-04 https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/04/ixnay-on-the-exit-strategy/ A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be

Without a clear ask, your pitch deck is useless 2022-07-03 https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/03/pitch-deck-ask/ Having a great “ask” slide can reassure investors: It shows a founder wants to

Wonder if VCs are reading your decks? Pitch is pitching in to analyse who’s reading what and where 2022 04 15 https://tech.eu/2022/04/15/pitch/ Startups sending pitch

How much is a pitch deck really worth? 2022 02 11 https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/11/how-much-is-a-pitch-deck-really-worth/ Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where

Aileen Lee and Rachel Carlson walk through Guild Education’s early pitch deck 2021 11 09 https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/aileen-lee-and-rachel-carlson-walk-through-guild-educations-early-pitch-deck/ You can’t raise more than $370 million on a