Startup Pitch Decks

Founded in 2018, Lolli is a browser extension and mobile app that gives shoppers small amounts of Bitcoin when they make an online purchase. Since its inception, Lolli has given over $10 million in Bitcoin rewards, in addition to cashback rewards. The platform has grown significantly over the past few years with 1000 merchant partnerships. Lolli has provided access to more than 600,000 shoppers to become Bitcoin investors simply by shopping online. The platform has partnered with reputable retailers like Nike, Macys, Grubhub, Hotels.com, Postmates, and many others. The company has raised an $8 million Series B led by BITKRAFT Ventures. Sfermion, Ulta Beautys Prisma Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, Rahul Pagidipati, 2 Punks Capital, and MZ Web3 Fund also participated. To date, Lolli has raised over $28 million.

Founded in 2009 in Reykjavik, Iceland, Meniga has developed a suite of digital banking tools for banks spanning areas including personal finance, open banking, and data enrichment. Beyond banks, the company also sells to payment service providers PSP, fintechs, and other financial services providers. The company provides digital banking solutions for over 100 million banking customers across 30 countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia. Its customers include banks such as UOB, UniCredit, Groupe BPCE, Crdito Agrcola, Swedbank, and Commercial Bank of Dubai. Meniga has raised $16 million in Series D funding led by major European banks, Groupe BPCE and Crdito Agrcola, Omega ehf, and several existing shareholders. Latest funding round boosts the companys total funding to $60.5 million 55 million.

Founded in 2022 by former Meta engineer Nick Confrey, Seam Social is a Web3 social platform bringing back the customization of MySpace and the community of Facebook Groups. Seam allows anyone to create custom features and themes for themselves and their friends. Users can also create mini social profiles for Web3 games to share their NFTs, add friends, and embed playlists directly in-game. Seam Social has completed a $2.5 million seed funding round led by 1kx, with participation from Seed Club, Sfermion, f7 Ventures, and Social Graph Ventures.

Arcane, a London-based startup, founded in late 2021, has developed an AI platform that can automate marketing tasks like competitor research, evaluating current campaigns, analyzing data, and offers suggestions to more nuanced and complex questions. Founders Ben Hacking and Jeremy Frenay, who have helped scale some of the worlds fastest-growing tech businesses Deliveroo, WeWork, and Babylon among others were inspired to start Arcane after experiencing firsthand the difficulties marketers face in modern workflows. Arcane has raised $5m in Seed funding led by Accel, with participation from angel investors including Metas VP Product for generative AI Connor Hayes, Monzo founder Tom Blomfield, and WeWork President Anthony Yazbeck. Other investors include Cocoa, Firstminute Capital, Kima Ventures, and Seedcamp.

Defacto is the developer of an invoice financing platform designed to finance B2B transactions. Defacto was founded in 2021 to solve working capital challenges for small businesses by offering flexible financing. The companys platform allows SMBs to defer payment until their customers pay, while offering early payment to suppliers and automated payout and reconciliation.

In an effort to fulfill plans to build a 50,000-square-foot practice facility, Seattle Storm has sold minority stakes to a group of 12 investors. The stakes were sold for $21 million at a record valuation of $151 million. Investor groups that participated in the purchase are mostly made up of women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ. The Storm are one of the most successful franchises in WNBA history, with four WNBA titles, most recently in 2020. They currently practice in the basement gym of Seattle Pacific University, where they get four hours of access per day. The new training facility set to open in March 2024, will house players, marketers, ownership, caterers, championship trophies, and art installations representing the teams legacy primarily created by Black artists all under one roof.

Led by CEO Pieter Broekema, Sensorfact initially began as an energy management solution. Over the years, the company has evolved and expanded its product suite to help manufacturers to improve their resource efficiency. Today, its range of products includes sensors for monitoring electricity, gas, water, and compressed air usage, as well as predictive maintenance solutions. In the last five years, the company has grown its customer base to more than 350 customers in over 14 countries and serves in the sectors including plastics, food beverages, and metal industry. Sensorfact just raised 25 million euros around $28 million from growth impact fund Blume Equity. Existing investors FORWARD.one, Korys, and SET Ventures also participated in the round. This Series B round brings Sensorfacts total raised to 45 million euros.

Triller is a social video platform that allows users to create and share short-form videos with music, filters and effects. Triller competes with platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, and claims to have over 300 million monthly active users.Trillers platform features exclusive content from celebrities, artists and influencers, as well as partnerships with major music labels and streaming services. The company also hosts live events, such as boxing matches, concerts and festivals, that generate revenue from pay-per-view and sponsorship deals.The company announced its plans to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company SPAC called Farvahar Partners. The deal values Triller at $5 billion and will provide the company with $500 million in cash to fund its growth and acquisitions. The merger is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024.

Aphea.Bio is a Belgian biotech company that develops microbial solutions to boost crop growth and reduce the use of chemical pesticides and fertilisers. Aphea.Bios products include biostimulants, which enhance plant nutrient uptake, and biocontrols, which protect plants from diseases.Aphea.Bios platform is based on its proprietary research and development capabilities, and leverages its partnerships with academic institutions and industry players. The company has launched its first product, a biostimulant for wheat, in March 2021, and plans to release a biostimulant for maize and a biofungicide for wheat in 2024. It also collaborates with the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation to develop biostimulants for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.The company announced a 70m Series C funding round, led by Innovation Industries, a Dutch VC firm focused on agtech and foodtech. Other investors include Korys Investments, BNP Paribas Fortis, the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, ECBF and Astanor. The round is the second largest in Belgium in 2023, and will be used to launch new products, expand the product pipeline, grow the team and scale up production.

PVcase is a solar technology company that helps design, monitor and optimise solar power plants. Founded in 2018 in Lithuania, PVcase has expanded into 75 countries and serves over 1,000 customers, including some of the worlds largest solar developers.PVcases software tool enables faster and easier engineering processes for solar plant design, reducing the project time from weeks to minutes. The company also acquired US-based Anderson Optimization, a solar panel site evaluating company, to offer a one-stop shop for solar plant development.The company announced a $100m Series B funding round, led by Highland Europe, a London-based growth stage VC. Energize, a US energy-focused VC, Elephant, a US VC, and an existing investor also participated. The round is the largest in central and eastern Europe this year, and one of the largest ever scored by a Lithuanian company.

Prolific is a London-based scaleup that connects vetted research participants to AI companies that need human feedback to improve their models. Prolifics platform serves industry leaders including tech giants like Google and Meta, as well as universities and research bodies.Prolifics niche is providing high-quality and diverse participants for online research, especially for the AI sector that requires reinforcement learning by human feedback. The company has 120k participants across seven countries, who earn $15 per hour on average for their input.The startup announced a 25m funding round, co-led by Partech, a Paris-based VC firm, and Oxford Science Enterprises, an independent investor partnered with Oxford University. The round is the first since Prolific participated in Y Combinator in 2019, and will be used to grow its participant pool and headcount.

Joshua Jordan Harris is an American investor, sports team owner, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management and a managing partner of the NBAs Philadelphia 76ers and the NHLs New Jersey Devils. In July 2021, NFL owners unanimously approved Josh Harris purchase of the Washington Commanders, a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area, from Dan Snyder for a record-breaking $6.05 billion. The deal, the largest sales transaction for a sports team at the time, marked the ending of scandal-plagued billionaire owner Dan Snyders two-plus-decade run, as the team looked to bounce back from a troubled stretch mired in controversies.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC is an American mixed martial arts promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the largest MMA promotion in the world as of 2023. World Wrestling Entertainment WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion. In April 2023, Endeavor, the UFCs parent company, announced that it would be acquiring WWEs pro-wrestling brand and that the UFCs MMA company will be combined into one publicly traded company TKO. The deal values the UFC at $12.1 billion and WWE at $9.3 billion, making the valuation of the new entity $21.4 billion. According to the merger details, Endeavor owns 51 percent of TKO, while current WWE shareholders own 49 percent. After the merger, TKO began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

In late 2023, Microsoft made the biggest-ever push into gaming with an $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. It was Microsofts largest deal in its 48-year history. The Federal Trade Commission in the U.S., the European Commission and the U.K.s Competition and Markets Authority all raised objections to the transaction. To get the deal done, Microsoft made a number of promises and concessions, including a commitment to keep Call of Duty available on other platforms as well as spinning off the cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft and not taking ownership of these rights for any existing Activision Blizzard titles, or new games released in the next 15 years.

Based in Sweden, Supernormal is an AI-powered platform that automates meeting notes. The company was founded by former Meta and Klarna product manager Colin Treseler and ex-Github design lead Fabian Perez.Starting in 2020, it took the company a year to collect 60,000 hours of meeting data, but since then, the company has experienced hypergrowth, with around 10,000 hours recorded each hour. Supernormal is being used by more than 50,000 professionals across 250 organizations. Its customers include Netflix, Salesforce, Github, Wayfair, and The Next Web.The latest seed funding round of $10M was led by Balderton Capital, alongside EQT Ventures and Acequia Capital. So far, the company has raised $12M approximately 10.9M from investors such as Jehad Affoneh, Nir Eyal, and Mick Johnson.

Encore helps developers to build new cloud backends in minutes instead of spending countless hours writing repetitive code in order to compose their applications by combining a large set of components from cloud providers. The platform removes the need to manually configure, connect and set up these cloud components, enabling developers to spend their time creating innovative products instead of solving the same undifferentiated problems repeatedly. Encore is not a cloud hosting provider, instead, it allows developers to use their own cloud account with all the major cloud providers, ensuring they maintain control of their data.

Enduring Planet is a provider of fast, founder-friendly debt financing to climate startups. The company uses a proprietary, automated online lending platform to provide non-dilutive financing to early-stage businesses focused on addressing the climate crisis. The company issues term sheets in under a week and can finance a business within thirty days using API integrations with Plaid, Stripe and QuickBooks to make underwriting easier. Since Enduring Planet was formed in May 2021, the team has raised a pre-seed round as well as completed the first close of its pilot debt facility, Enduring Climate Fund 1, with support from a number of family offices, private foundations, and high net worth individuals.

Kamino is a financial services provider that aims to expedite startups time to market. They specialize in creating and managing offshore and local corporate structures, facilitating the opening of international accounts, providing lines of credit, and offering foreign currency services. By handling these crucial aspects, Kamino allows startups to concentrate on their business goals without being hindered by obstacles along the way.

Headquartered in Seattle, BoxedUp is a B2B e-commerce platform that allows rental companies to integrate e-commerce options into their websites. The platform offers features such as e-commerce storefronts, inventory management, same-day delivery, invoice and payment management, order management, quote automation, and much more. The company was founded by ex-Amazon employees, including CEO Donald Boone who led a solution architecture team at Amazon. The company operates on a subscription model, offering different pricing tiers with varying features and transaction fees. It also has a free option with limitations. BoxedUp initially focused on the film industry, but has since expanded to serve the industrial and construction sectors.

Founded in 2020, Glambook is an all-in-one platform to grow business for independent beauty professionals and their clients. Glambook allows beauty professionals to work in a flexible environment, i.e., where and how to provide their services. The platform is powered by AI and matches clients with beauty professionals based on their visual references. The German company aims to support freelancers and promote people who want to work for themselves at the lowest possible overhead. Since its launch, Glambook has shown consistent revenue growth. In 2024, Glambooks revenue reached $595.1K up from $470.4K in 2023. The company previously reported $470.4K in 2023, $392K in 2021.