Startup Pitch Decks

Scrintal is a Stockholm-based startup that offers a visual knowledge base tool that combines visual canvases with documentation to help individuals and teams clarify their thoughts and share their work. It allows users to move from an idea to a presentable format on the same screen. Each card on the platform acts as a visual knowledge base, where users can write and add files, including photos and documents. Users can connect cards via backlinks, similar to Wikipedia. A feature called My Desk allows users to see their current workload and easily bring in notes and multimedia.

Wellspent, formerly known as not less but better, is a screen time-based engagement engine for B2C apps, designed to increase user engagement in health-positive apps. The app works by locking distracting apps for users until they complete an activity in the health-positive app. Wellspent aims to replace mindless scrolling on apps like Instagram with activities such as meditation, language learning, workouts, instrument learning, yoga sessions, and journaling. Founded in Berlin, Wellspent is backed by the builders of Blinkist, mysugr, N26, Tomorrows Education, Refurbed, Upvest, and more.

Apryl offers comprehensive fertility benefits to companies globally. Their platform provides employees with access to various reproductive services, including IVF, IUI, egg freezing, surrogacy, adoption, and menopause management. The company also focuses on the employer benefits market, allowing companies to customize their offerings to supply specific services to their employees. In June, 2024, Apryl was acquired by Progyny Nasdaq PGNY, a transformative fertility, family building and womens health benefits solution, trusted by the nations leading employers, health plans and benefit purchasers. The acquisition will allow the fertility and family-building company to provide its services in more than 100 countries and in over 225 languages.

NuScale was founded in 2007 based on research funded by the United States Department of Energy DOE, and has since made significant progress towards commercializing Americas first small modular reactor SMR. The company made history as the first of a new generation of nuclear energy startups to win regulatory approval of its reactor design in 2022. In May 2022, NuScale went public via merger with the special-purpose acquisition company SPAC, Spring Valley Acquisition Corp, raising $380 million of investment. The following year would prove challenging, and NuScale would layoff more than half of its workforce.

Destiny Robotics was founded by Megi Kavtaradze to solve loneliness by making the worlds first humanoid robot assistant for household use. Their goal was to create next-generation robots that can interact with humans at a much deeper level than currently possible. Kavtaradze was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in 2022. Using this pitch deck, Destiny Robotics raised over $141k in crowdfunding via WeFunder. Two years later, Destiny Robotics settled with the SEC to pay nearly $65k in fines for misleading investors. Destiny told investors they had $140k in pre-orders and targeted 2022 for a humanoid hologram and a humanoid robot in 2023. The SEC complaint stated their first prototype was a far cry from the socially intelligent humanoid robot represented to investors.

Flowcarbon was founded in 2022 by former WeWork founder Adamn Neumann with the mission of putting carbon credits on the blockchain. Companies and individuals purchase carbon credits in order to offset unavoidable emissions. Each Goddess Nature Token was planned to be the equivalent of one carbon credit. Flowcarbons partner, Verra once the biggest carbon credit certifier, has been mired in controversy after a study revealed 90 of their rainforest carbon offsets are worthless. Flowcarbon used this deck to raise $32M in 2022 from a16z, Samsung Next, and Invesco. $38 million came from sales of the Goddess Nature Token. The pitch deck heralded GNT as the only truly viable carbon credits token. However, Forbes reported in September 2024 that Flowcarbon had not yet delivered any tokens and was offering refunds to investors in exchange for signing a confidentiality agreement and waiving any claims.

Founded by Bobby Pinero and Ben McRedmond in 2021, Equals empowers business users to connect live data from databases and other sources directly into an intuitive Excel-style spreadsheet interface. The company was founded with the goal of bridging the gap between simple and complex data platforms, and helping startups make better decisions with their data. Equals used this deck to raise a $5.5M seed round in early 2022, backed by notable VCs and Angels like Jack Altman, Worklife and Craft Ventures. The company originally planned to raise only $4M at first, but ended up expanding the round to $6M. Just five months later, Equals raised a $16M Series A led by A16Z.

Equals was founded by Bobby Pinero CEO and Ben McRedmond CPO in 2021 with the mission of replacing Excel. Equals cloud-based spreadsheet tool that allows users to connect live data from databases and other sources directly into a spreadsheet interface. The application is intended to bridge the gap between simple and complex data platforms, and to help startups make better decisions with their data. Equals used this deck to raise a $16M Series A in November 2022 just five months after launching, led by Andreessen Horowitz along with other investors like Worklife and Craft Ventures. According to the announcement, Equals is used by companies like Notion, with a waitlist of thousands of startups and enterprises. When he shared the deck, founder and CEO Bobby Pineo said they focused the pitch on the three Ps problem, product, people the same approach Equals used for their seed pitch deck. Equals took a similar approach to Ripplings Series A, supplementing the investor pitch deck with a data deck that dives into the numbers.

Atom Limbs develops non-invasive, mind-controlled artificial arms that will be capable of near-full human range of motion and restore a basic sense of touch. The company was founded by Tyler Hayes in 2019 with the mission of ending physical disability by building artificial bodies, starting with the worlds first mind-controlled robotic wearable with individual finger control sense of touch. Prior to Atom Limbs, Hayes was the co-Founder COO of Bebo acquired by Amazon and employee 10 at YC-backed Disqus acquired by Zeta. The bionic arm has full finger dexterity, 200 sensors, curls 45lbs, and leverages artificial intelligence to train computers to accurately interpret electrical signals from a persons brain and use them to move and manipulate a prosthetic limb. In 2021, the company raised over $5M in RegCF seed funding via WeFunder on a SAFE note with a $40M valuation cap using these pitch decks.

Founded by Stefanie Sample in 2021, Fundid aims to support women-owned businesses in accessing capital and developing financial knowledge. The fintech startup offers a marketplace for grants microloans and a business credit card that doesnt require a personal guarantee or credit score. Fundid also educates business owners through content on its website, covering topics like grant proposals and loan financing. Using this 12-slide pitch deck, Fundid raised a $3.25M seed round in 2022 led by fintech investor Nevcaut Ventures, joined by The Artemis Fund and Builders and Backers. Fundid operated by having a debt facility partner underwrite its lending operations, but when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates 11 times between spring of 2022 and the end of 2023, the cost of capital became too high for Fundid to earn a profit. The company raised another $2M in 2023, but ultimately the founder made the tough decision to rescind the raise, give the money back, and lay off the team of five.

Kryptomon is a blockchain-based NFT Play-and-Earn game where Pokmon meets Tamagotchi and CryptoKitties. In this metaverse game, community members play as Trainers of individual monsters.Founded in April 2021 by Umberto Canessa, the crypto game has demonstrated tremendous growth bragging over 500,000 social followers and $13 million in NFT transactions in less than 5 months.Within less than a year of launch, the company raised $10 million in a Series A round led by NFX, with additional backing by PLAYSTUDIOS $MYPS, Griffin Gaming Partners, Tal Ventures, and Vikram Pandit, former CEO of Citigroup.

FaZe Clan is a professional esports and entertainment organization founded in May 2010, as FaZe Sniping. Since then, the group has grown into one of the most popular and influential esports organizations in the world, with over 510 million followers across social media platforms. The organization is known for its disruptive original content and hyper-engaged global fanbase. In addition to its esports division, FaZe Clan also has a successful apparel line, merchandise store, and talent agency. FaZe Clan went public through a merger with SPAC, B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp. The deal valued FaZe Clan at $725 million, down slightly from initial third-party valuations that priced the combined company at about $1 billion. After two years of poor stock performance, FaZe was acquired by GameSquare $GAME for cents on the dollar, at a mere $17M valuation.

ngrok is a simplified API-first ingress-as-a-service that adds connectivity, security, and observability to apps with no code changes. ngrok was founded in 2015 by Alan Shreve, a veteran of building distributed systems at scale.Initially, an open source community-funded hosted service, ngrok has now grown into a platform supporting millions of tunnels daily and has more than 30,000 paying customers including Zendesk, Copado, and Veritas.The company announced Tuesday the closing of a $50 million Series A round led by Lightspeed, with participation from Coatue Management and others.

Pearpop is an American social media collaboration platform headquartered in Los Angeles. The platforms main feature is Challenges, which allows brands to instantly activate creator campaigns, on-demand.The company was co-founded by Cole Mason and Guy Oseary in October 2020. Since then, the platform has attracted more than 200,000 creators and famous brands including Amazon, Netflix, Chipotle, Rakuten, Universal Pictures, Sonos, and Beyond Meat.In Dec 2022, Pearpop announced its latest funding round of $18 million led by Ashton Kutchers Sound Ventures, Guy Osearys Sound Ventures, and Alexis Ohanians Seven Seven Six, bringing its total valuation to $300 million.

Dandelion Energy claims to be the largest residential geothermal heat pump installation company in the United States. The company provides home geothermal systems to replace your homes existing air conditioning and heating equipment by capturing and transferring energy found in the soil.Dandelion Energy began in 2015 as a project of Googles research arm, Google X now just X. The startup was spun out in 2017, and has raised a $136 million since then from investors including LenX, the venture division of the homebuilding company Lennar.This 15-slide pitch deck was used to secure a $70 million Series B round led by LenX and NGP ETP and included other investors, like NEA and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, according to the company. Heres an inside look at Dandelion Energys pitch deck

Legion M is a production startup that raises funds from the general public in exchange for equity and the ability to vote on which projects the company acquires and develops.The company was founded in 2016 by Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison and has grown to become one of the most successful equity crowdfunding companies in history, with nearly 30,000 investors and a global community of over 125,000 fans.Among the companys credits are projects like 2016s Colossal starring Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis the 2018 film Mandy starring Nicolas Cage and the 2019 comedy Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, directed by prolific horror movie director Kevin Smith, and many more.Heres the 15 slides pitch deck that breaks down the companys funding model, projects, and revenue streams.

TVision measures how people really watch Linear CTV using cutting-edge computer-vision technology to gather person-level insights on viewer engagement. Their platform gathers second-by-second data from a nationally representative panel of households who have signed on to help advertisers understand how, what, and when they watch TV.TVision has a panel of about 5,000 homes that covers 14,000 people who have opted in to have their TV watching tracked in their house.Yan Liu founded TVision in 2014 with the goal of transforming the way in which brands, their agencies, and TV media sellers determine the true value of TV content.TVision used this deck to raise $16 million in funding, led by iSpot, joined by existing investors SIG Capital, Accomplice, and Golden Ventures. iSpot is a TVision client that also offers advertisers new ways to measure TV ads iSpot CEO and founder Sean Muller will join TVisions board as part fo this round.

Alation is credited with pioneering the data catalog product category with its signature software, the Alation Data Catalog, which helps enterprises in organizing and consolidating their data.Alation was founded in 2012 by co-founders, Satyen Sangani and Aaron Kalb, and launched its first product in 2015 to give data consumers an easy way to search for enterprise data with natural language. The company recently reported it passed the $100M annual recurring revenue ARR mark.Alation used this pitch deck to raise a $123 million Series E round at $1.7B valuation led by Thoma Bravo, joined by strategic investor Databricks, as well as Sanabil Investments, and Costanoa Ventures. Salesforce Ventures, Dell, and Sapphire Ventures were earlier investors in the company.

Canary Technologies is seeking to disrupt the way hotels manage guests digitally. The Y-Combinator backed company provides hotels and other lodging properties with technology solutions to increase productivity and manage bookings.Canary was founded in 2017 by childhood friends Harman Singh Narula and SJ Sawhney, as a mobile-based platform to handle hotel operations such as check-in, post-booking communication and check-out.Today, their hospitality management platform is used by global brands such as Radisson Hotels, Best Western, and Four Seasons. It claims to help improve the guest experience while also boosting revenue though upselling.Canary Technologies used this pitch deck to raise a $30 million in a Series B round led by Shopify-backer Insight Partners, with investors including F-Prime Capital, Y Combinator, Thayer Ventures, Commerce Ventures and others participating.

Humming Homes, launched in October 2020, aims to create personalized, seasonal maintenance programs for homeowners for as little as $250 a month.Humming Homes was founded in 2020 by Adeel Mallick, Kyle Carnes, and serial Entrepreneur, Kevin Ryan Founder CEO of AlleyCorp. As of May 2022, their services are live in 2 regions Tri-state, South Florida across 5 markets, and scaling towards national expansion with this new funding.The home-maintenance startup secured $7.9 million in seed funding with this pitch deck. In August, Humming Homes closed on $2.3 million in seed funding from investors led by Harlem Capital, an extension of an earlier $5.6 million round from Greycroft, Thrive Capital, and other investors.