Startup Pitch Decks

Latch now known as Door.com is a company that provides keyless security systems for people living in apartment-style buildings. It was founded by Brian Jones, Luke Schoenfelder, and Thomas Meyerhoffer. The 200-employee company was valued at $454M in 2019, before going public in 2021 through a SPAC listing that raised $453M and valued the company at over $1.5B. As part of the SPAC deal, Latch received $510M in cash, including $190M from investors such as Chamath Palihapitiya, BlackRock, D1 Capital and Fidelity. After going public, Latch has been mired in controversy and was delisted in August. The stock crashed 80 from its highs after missing revenue projections reporting a $166M loss, multiple rounds of layoffs, and audits following alleged manipulating of bookings. The CEO was forced out in January 2023 and replaced with former Ring founder CEO, Jamie Siminoff, who sold the smart doorbell company to Amazon for billions.

Copado serves as the leading DevOps platform that drives major digital transformations on Salesforce. It empowers organizations to accelerate their digital initiatives by automating the release process, enhancing developer productivity, and optimizing the return on cloud investments. With Copado DevOps 360, businesses gain access to a comprehensive suite of tools including Value Planning, Continuous Delivery, Automated Testing, and Compliance. By leveraging Copados robust features, companies can streamline their Salesforce projects and achieve greater agility, efficiency, and success in their digital transformation journey.

Arrival was founded to make electric vehicle production radically more efficient. After raising around $1B from names like Hyundai, BlackRock, and UPS, Arrival went public via SPAC at a $5.4B valuation the stock has crashed 99 to a mere $20M market cap in the following 15 months. During that period, the company went through four layoffs, slashed production targets, and faced potential delisting after missed SEC filing deadlines. The SPAC deck promised automated microfactories that would simultaneously produce electric vans for UPS, cars for Uber and buses for the UK, Italy and California. Arrival initially said it would deliver 10,000 EVs to UPS from 2020 to 2024 but only announced the first microfactory-built van in Sep 2022.

The Humane AI Pin is designed to replace your smartphone with a small wearable, AI-powered device that magnetically attaches to your clothing. Humane was founded in 2018 by former Apple executives Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri, and staffed by several ex-Apple employee. This leaked pitch deck thus the low resolution was the publics first peak at what the secretive startup was building, and was presumably part of the investor materials used to raise their $100M Series B in 2021.The company would go on to raise an additional $100M in Series C funding in March 2023 before officially launching their OpenAI-powered wearable pin and smartphone replacement in November. Sam Altman was one of the participants in their 2021 funding round, so the partnership with OpenAI comes as no surprise. The AI pin available for purchase for $700 starting November 16 can make phone calls, text your friends, play music, catch you up on your email, and has a laser projector that can cast a UI onto your hand.

Pluralsight was founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard, Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams, who each contributed $5,000 to start the company. After four years, Pluralsight expanded from classroom-based offerings to publishing their first digital course in 2008. After nine years of self-funding, the company raised its first external capital in December 2012, with a $27.5M Series A from Insight Venture Partners. By 2016, Pluralsight was a unicorn their $30M Series C round valued the company over $1 billion. Pluralsight went public via IPO on May 17, 2018 at a $15 share price. In December 2020, Pluralsight announced it would be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $3.5 billion. At the time, the company supported 18,000 corporate clients, including 70 of Fortune 500 companies. Vista completed the acquisition in April 2021 at $22.50 per share a 25 premium to Pluralsights 30-day trading average. Three years later, Vista announced they had written off the entire equity value of Pluralsight in May 2024.

Salesforce is a cloud-based software company founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff in February 1999, which grew to becomea leader in the customer relationship management and marketing software space. Slack was founded ten years later and grew into the leading channel-based messaging platform for businesses, used by millions to align their teams and unify their systems. On December 1, 2020, Slack and Salesforce announced an agreement for Salesforce to acquire the company, marking one of the most significant tech acquisitions at that time. The acquisition was completed on July 21, 2021. Under the terms of the agreement, Slack shareholders received $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock for each Slack share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion based on the closing price of Salesforces common stock on November 30, 2020.

FTX was arguably the market-leading cryptocurrency exchange before its highly-publicized liquidity crisis and ensuing bankruptcy filing in late 2022.FTX once valued over $32 billion collapsed in a matter of days in November 2022 after it was revealed that founder Bankman-Fried had secretly shifted $10 billion of FTX customer deposits to Alameda.Despite their recent failures, one cannot overlook that FTX was incredibly successful in fundraising in a challenging environmentThey raised their first seed round in 2018 in the midst of the crypto-winter, and raised over $1.8 billion since.FTX raised multiple rounds led by Sequoia, with participation from notable VC funds like Tiger Global, Softbank, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ICONIQ Growth, and more.Heres an inside look at an FTX pitch deck from May 2021, presumably used to raise their $1B Series B round announced in June of the same year

Party Round raised $7 million using its own platform in 2021, with this 10-slide pitch deck.Party Round is a powerful tool suite for founders to automated fundraising from generating sending docs to collecting signatures funds. Their mission is to make the process of raising early-stage corporate capital far simpler than it is today.In the VC world, a party round is an funding round where several angel investors participate to get an early-stage startup off the ground.Party Round won seed funding from blue-chip VCs like Andreessen Horowitz, Seven Seven Six, Gradient Ventures, Abstract Ventures, and Shrug Capital.

Susa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing primarily in seed rounds, founded in 2013. The firm seeks to invest in early-stage companies operating in the enterprise software, fintech, logistics, healthcare, consumer, and frontier tech sectors.Susas portfolio includes fast-growing companies like Andela and Robinhood they participated across all five funding rounds of the freight logistics unicorn Flexport $3.2 billion valuation.

Data analytics software company Tracer in June announced a $9.9 million seed funding round led by big names like former Walmart and Amazon exec Marc Lore and NBA star Kevin Durants firm Thirty Five Ventures.The company started in 2015 as a unit of Gary Vaynerchuks ad agency VaynerMedia. Tracer is a software platform that automatically collects and organize data that isnt personally identifiable. It also offers free consulting services.

Using Bubble, users can create web and mobile applications with no previous coding experience. The company aims to make hand-coding for web applications virtually obsolete.Bubbles no-code development platform is used to build websites and applications with more advanced functionality than what is possible with older website builders such as Wix and Squarespace. Bubble can be used to build web applications such as social media sites like Twitter, marketplaces like Airbnb and Uber, and other services like Instacart.After 7 years of bootstrapping and tinkering with the product, co-founders Emmanuel Straschnov and Josh Haas secured a $6.5 million seed round in June 2019 led by SignalFire. The company announced in 2021 that Ryan Hinkle of Insight Partners led its $100 million Series A funding.

Chartmetric raised $2 million in seed funding for their music data and analytics platform. The company is seeking to build the first independent music analytics platform for artists whereas most of their competitors are tied to music platforms for instance, Spotify has its own in-depth metrics and analysis, while music analytics firm Next Big Sound was acquired by Pandora. Chartmetric provides data from a variety of sources, including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music, as well as TikTok, YouTube, and even Instagram.

Three Ships Beauty is a vegan, natural skincare brand co-founded by two 23-year-olds Connie Lo and Laura Burget in 2017. Burget and Lo started the company with just 4,000 Canadian dollars $3,128 of their savings, after feeling frustrated with the challenges of finding natural and affordable skincare.Three Ships Beauty generated sales just shy of $4-million in Canada and the United States last year, and it forecasts $7-million in revenue for 2022. Today their products are sold online and in hundreds of retailers throughout North America, including Target, Whole Foods, Holt Renfrew, Indigo and the Hudsons Bay Co.Heres the pitch deck they used to raise $1 million in just two weeks from the CEO of Dyson and others.

Awesome People Ventures is focused on minority investments from seed to late-stage in healthcare, wellness, software, artificial intelligence, and FoodTech startups.The VC firm was founded by Julia Lipton and is backed by Marc Andreessen, Tom Lee founder of One Medical and top founders and operators. Julia previously founded Soundboard, an advising firm for Silicon Valley CEOs, prior to which, she led growth and product teams at companies like OneMedical and Quixey.Awesome People portfolio companies include ActionDesk, Copper, Peachy, Tango, Wingspan more.

Not Boring Capital launched its first venture fund in 2021, investing mainly in Seed through Series B companies, with occasional pre-seed and growth-stage investments.Not Boring also operates an AngelList-based Syndicate, a twice weekly newsletter, and a podcast. They invested over $4 million in over twenty companies through the Not Boring Syndicate before launching an $8 million venture fund that invests in companies with stories to tell, and helps tell them in 2021.

Shrug Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Niv Dror former Head of Marketing at AngelList.Shrug Capital prefers to invest in early-stage consumer startups in entertainment, human capital, application software, hardware and social platform sectors. The firm has been backed by A-list investors like Banister, Chris and Crystal Sacca, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Amity Ventures, Social Capital, David Sacks, Keith Rabois, and Kevin Rose.Their notable investment portfolio includes Artie, Atoms, Cocoon, Daisie, Massless, Notify, Superplastic, Voiceflow, Wardrobe, Zestful, and more.

Spacecadet Ventures not only invests in startups, but also provides them with a full suite of creative services, from brand strategy to marketing insights. The firm raised more than $10 million in investment using its innovative pitch deck and game concept.Spacecadet was founded by Wiz Abdulla and Daniel Eckler both 2x exited founders with a strong background in marketing. In 2021, Spacecadet secured 37 deals investing over $5.9 million across a diverse range of companies involved in web3, metaverse, and education, including names like Ramp, Toucan, and Levels.The company is backed by LPs including Benjamin Ling, Bradley Horowitz, Charles Hudson, Leo Polovets, and Zach Weinberg

Worklife Ventures is the first venture capital firm designed for the new era of builders, creators, and individual contributors.Former Zendesker and Head of Social Media at Expedia, Brianne Kimmel, founded Worklife in 2019 as a $5M fund which included 7 unicorns with the vision of investing in companies that make work more flexible, creative, and human. Worklife portfolio companies include Webflow, Achie, BaseDash, Tonal, Italic, Feast, more.Worklife brags notable LPs including Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Matt Mazzeo, Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, and others.

Weekend Fund is a two-person team Ryan Hoover founder of Product Hunt and Vedika Jain writing $100k-300k checks into early-stage startups around the world across consumer and B2B.After raising an initial $3M angel fund in 2017, then a $10M early-stage fund in 2019, Weekend Fund used this pitch deck to raise a $21M Fund 3.0 in 2022.Weekend Fund is backed by notable LPs like Naval Ravikant, Troy Carter, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Suzy Ryoo, Miyuki Matsumoto, Kevin Rose, Chris Crystal Sacca.They have funded startups like Intercom, Faze Clan, Deel, VoiceFlow more.

Tia is a womens health startup building what it calls a modern medical home for women. The company is trailblazing a new approach to womens healthcare that treats women as whole people vs. parts or life stages.Founded by Cornell alumni Carolyn Witte and Felicity Yost in 2016, Tia is a for women, by women company. Tia is pioneering the new paradigm for modern female healthcare including gynecology services, STI aka STD testing, primary care, annual physicals, and more.In late 2021, Tia secured $100 million in financing to scale its virtual and in-person care. The New York-based companys Series B funding values the company at $600 million the round was led by Lone Pine Capital, with participation from existing investors, Define Ventures and Torch Capital. They used this 30-slide pitch to raise a nine-figure Series B round in just three weeks.