Pitch Deck Teardown

TechCrunch’s Pitch Deck Teardown series breaks apart pitch decks from startups and analyzes them. From Aether to Xyte—TechCrunch digs into dozens of decks.

 

Notable tear downs include: Forethought, Lunchbox, Point.me, and Uber.

Feel Therapeutics has a pretty original deck, with some twists we rarely see; the company did a great job telling the overall story.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Feel Therapeutics’ $3.5M seed deck

How well did the company do telling its own story in the form of its angel pitch deck? Let’s take a look.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Kinnect’s $250K angel deck

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…

Pitch Deck Teardown: RAW Dating App’s $3M angel deck

Terra One’s pitch deck has a few wins, but also a few misses. Here’s how to fix that.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Terra One’s $7.5M seed deck

Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there’s important information missing too.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Goodcarbon’s $5.5M seed deck

The deck included some redacted numbers, but there was still enough data to get a good picture.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Cloudsmith’s $15M Series A deck

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…

Pitch Deck Teardown: NOQX’s $200K pre-seed deck

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.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Geodesic.Life’s $500K pre-seed deck

Xpanceo has shared its complete presentation deck, consisting of 19 slides. Dive into its pitch deck to learn how the company raised $40 million.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Xpanceo’s $40M seed deck

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.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Queerie’s $300K pre-seed deck

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…

Pitch Deck Teardown: Plantee Innovations’ $1.4M seed deck

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…

Pitch Deck Teardown: Protecto’s $4M seed deck

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.

Pitch Deck Teardown: SuperScale’s $5.4M Series A deck

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…

Pitch Deck Teardown: Astek Diagnostics’s $2M seed deck

In the midst of CommandBar’s pretty slim pitch deck, there are some innovations that are worth shining a light on.

Pitch Deck Teardown: CommandBar’s $4.8M seed deck

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!

Pitch Deck Teardown: Equals’ $16M Series A deck

Xyte’s pitch deck has a lot of slides, but how much of it was actually useful? Let’s take a look.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Xyte’s $30M Series A deck

This week, we’re taking a look at what PhageLab got right in this pitch deck and why it could use some judicious pruning.

Pitch Deck Teardown: PhageLab’s $11M Series A deck

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.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Doola’s $1M strategic investment deck

Just tacking AI onto a product isn’t enough, and investors are hoping that the technology will lead to more innovation in the space.

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This week, we’re taking a look at a pitch deck from Rypplzz (pronounced “ripples”), a spatial technology startup that recently raised $3 million.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Rypplzz’ $3M seed deck

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.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Qortex’s $10M seed deck

This week, we are taking a closer look at Pepper Bio’s seed pitch deck that landed the company $6.5 million.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Pepper Bio’s $6.5M seed deck

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?

Pitch Deck Teardown: HomeCooks’ $3.2M seed deck

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…

The outlook for startups in 2024 is hazy

Let’s take a deep dive into the pitch deck that climate tech startup Metafuels used to raise its $8 million seed round.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Metafuels’ $8M climate tech seed deck

We’re going to put the deck Scalestack used to raise its $1M seed round under the microscope to see what it got right, and where it could have done better.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Scalestack’s $1M AI sales tech seed deck

AI is a chaotic free-for-all right now, especially when it comes to the fundraising cycles. Does Fifth Dimension stand out from the crowd?

Pitch Deck Teardown: Fifth Dimension AI’s $2.8M seed deck

Phospholutions’ pitch deck embodies the essence of an effective pitch. But it’s also riddled with small issues that add up,

Pitch Deck Teardown: Phospholutions’ $10M Series A extension deck

For this edition of Pitch Deck Teardown, we’re taking a close look at the CancerVAX campaign on the equity crowdfunding platform, StartEngine.

Pitch Teardown: The CancerVAX crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine