Startup Pitch Decks

Front, an email and customer communication startup, began as a shared email inbox product that allows a company to interact with incoming emails as a team over time, the startup has integrated more communication channels such as SMS conversations, live chats with customers on the website, Facebook messages, and more.Laurent Perrin and Mathilde Collin co-founded Front in 2013. Since then, the company has grown steadily, and its customers now include Shopify, Dropbox, Flexport, Checkout.com, Lydia, Airbnb, and others.Front raised a $65 million Series D round, valued at $1.7 billion. This latest funding round was led by Salesforces venture capital arm, alongside Battery Ventures. New investor PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada also participated in the round, alongside existing investors Sequoia Capital, Threshold Ventures, and Uncork Capital.

On November 28, Philip Morris Holland Holdings B.V.1, one of the affiliates of Philip Morris International manufacturer of Marlboro, announced that it has acquired 93.11 percent of the shares in Swedish Match manufacturer of ZYN, a virally-popular nicotine substitute and intends to initiate a compulsory redemption of the remaining shares and request the delisting of Swedish Match from the stock market. The European Commission, under the EU Merger Regulation, approved the transaction. The transaction could have led to foreclosure effects in Sweden, given that SMD was the only distributor of combustible tobacco, smoke-free, and related products in Sweden. To address the Commissions preliminary competition concerns, Philip Morris International offered to divest Swedish Matchs logistics arm, SMD Logistics. Swedish Match shares were subsequently delisted from Nasdaq Stockholm on December 30, 2022.

In Feb 2022, Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines, agreed to merge. The deal would give Frontier a 51.5 controlling stake in the combined airline. Spirit investors would receive 1.9126 shares of Frontier plus $2.13 in cash for each share they own, giving Spirit shareholders an implied value of $25.83 per share. JetBlue came knocking and offered to buy the budget airline outright for about $3.8 billion and a better deal of $33.50 per share. The proposal represented a 68 premium to the implied value of the Frontier stock and cash transaction. JetBlue also spent weeks urging Spirit shareholders to turn the Frontier offer down. They published this document to convince shareholders that the JetBlue deal offers stakeholders more value, more certainty and more opportunity. In July 2022, Spirit and Frontier canceled their merger agreement, as the deal failed to gain the support of Spirits shareholders. JetBlue and Spirit also ended their merger plan after a federal judge blocked the deal.

In October 2022, Kroger announced its plans to acquire Albertsons in a $24.6 billion deal. The merger was expected to close in the first half of Krogers 2024 fiscal year, but regulatory issues have caused delays. The deal was set to become grocerys largest to-date and would combine two of the countrys largest supermarket chains to create a conglomerate that would generate $209B in annual revenue across nearly 5,000 stores. As part of the deal, Kroger committed to invest $500M to lower prices and $1.3B to improve the customer experience. However, the Federal Trade Commission FTC sued to block the acquisition in 2024 citing anti-trust concerns. The FTC says Krogers plan to sell hundreds of stores is inadequate to address the concerns raised by the proposed merger.

On September 15, 2022, Adobe announced its plans to acquire browser-based design startup Figma in a cash and stock deal worth about $20 billion. However, in December 2023, Adobe and Figma announced that they would mutually terminate the merger agreement due to regulatory opposition. Adobe will pay Figma a termination fee of $1 billion, per the agreement. According to Latka, Figma earned $190M revenue from 50K customers in 2022. The company finished the following year with over $600 million in annual recurring revenue. Despite this, according to NYT, Figma has been picking up the pieces in 2024, and reportedly internally lowered their valuation to $10 billion half of what Adobe was willing to pay in 2022.

GRUBBRR is an emerging technology company that delivers ordering solutions for small to large companies across different verticals ranging from QSR restaurants, Fast Food food trucks, to cafes, stadiums, theatres, and golf courses. The Florida-based software startup specializes in self-ordering solutions and kiosk software platforms for restaurant management.The company was founded by the founder and Chief Technology Officer Bhavin Asher. According to the company, their automated kiosks can increase average ticket totals by as much as 40 to 50.In April 2022, GRUBBRR announced they received $35 million through an intellectual property-based funding arrangement with Aon PLC, a global professional services firm.

World Fund is the biggest European Climate Tech VC fund investing in startups that contribute to solving the climate crisis. Incubated by Ecosia, the fund focuses on high-emission sectors like energy, transport, food and agriculture, manufacturing and buildings.In October 2021, the firm launched their 350 million fund targeting startups building technology that can help decarbonize the planet. World Fund was established by Daria Saharova, Danijel Vievi, Craig Douglas, Christian Kroll and Tim Schumacher.PwC Germany is the latest LP to back VC World Fund, joining as an anchor LP for their 350m fund.

Productsup is the leading product-to-consumer P2C platform enabling brands and marketplaces to turn commerce anarchy into commercial success. Their P2C platform offers a range of solutions like feed management, marketplace experience and social commerce, product content syndication, and seller and vendor onboarding.Founded in 2010 by Johannis Hatt, Kai Seefeldt, and Marcel Hollerbach in Berlin, Productsup has grown to over 250 employees and works with over 900 brands, including IKEA, Sephora, Beiersdorf, Redbubble, and ALDI, processing over two trillion products a month.In April 2022, Productsup announced a Series B funding round for more than $70 million 65 million led by Bregal Milestone, a leading European technology growth capital firm, with participation from its existing investor, Nordwind Capital.

Branch offers standard auto insurance coverages like liability, comprehensive and collision, plus a few other non-traditional protections, such as rideshare coverage. The insurtech startup utilizes innovative technology to make bundling home and auto insurance online quicker and easier.Branch then Branch Metrics was founded in April 2014 by Alex Austin, Mada Seghete, Mike Molinet, and Dmitri Gaskin in Palo Alto. Launched in 2019, their full-stack insurance service uses data, technology, and automation to make home and auto insurance easy to buy. Its system can instantly bind and bundle auto and home insurance policies. The company has reportedly grown its annualized written premium by 1,300 in the last 12 months, increasing headcount from 75 to 4,000 since its $50M Series B round in 2021. In June 2022, Branch announced a $147 million in Series C funding at a postmoney valuation of $1.05 billion, led by Weatherford Capital, with participation from Acrew, American Family Ventures, Anthemis, Gaingels, Greycroft, HSCM Ventures, Narya, SignalFire and Tower IV.

Upflex is a sustainable and flexible co-working booking platform providing access to remote workspaces. Their app offers on-demand access to quality desks and meeting rooms in 80 countries.Christophe Garnier and Ginger Dhaliwal joined forces in 2018 to launch Upflex. At the time, it was a coworking aggregator and booking platform to help companies embrace workplace flexibility. The company was founded to power the hybrid workplace with all-in-one SaaS solutions to connect companies, brokerages and space operators in one seamless, efficient ecosystem.Today, Upflexs virtual platform allows you to book quality workspaces from 700 top brands in 5,000 locations across 1,600 cities. The hybrid workspace provider announced the closing of its $30 million Series A round led by WeWork, with investment from top strategic investors and venture funds such as Newmark and Cushman Wakefield, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, and GPO Fund, Coelius Capital, Industry Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

HowGood is an independent research organization that rates food products on their environmental and social impact. Developed over 10 years, the HowGood research framework uses insights from farmers, industry experts, NGOs, scientists, and academics alongside data from over 350 sources to assign sustainability ratings to ingredients.HowGood was co-founded as Scryve by brothers Alexander Gillett and Arthur Gillett in 2007. The pair launched Latis, a database of more than 33,000 ingredients found in food products so companies and consumers can access information from 300 different research organizations in one place.Starting in 2014, HowGoods food sustainability ratings were made public with their mobile app, available to iPhone and Android users. Today, their customers include Walmart, Danone, Nestle, Chipotle, and Ahold Delhaize USA.In May 2022, the sustainability ingredient database announced it secured $12.5 million in a funding round led by Titan Grove, with participation from FirstMark and other existing investors. HowGood plans to use the funds to triple its team, expand industry partnerships in the U.S. and Europe and build out datasets within its platform.

From waffles to cookies, Belgian Boys offers a wide variety of authentic European treats for the American market. The company is known for its stroopwafel cookies, cookie-sized Belgian waffles, bite-size pancakes and desserts.The company was founded in 2015 by Joel Davidovici Skinny and Greg Galel Chubby two Belgium-born entrepreneurs who were raised on the countrys famed desserts and sought to create their own line of premium, non-GMO treats.Belgian Boys was ranked last year on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, and achieved three-year revenue growth of 253. Today, Belgian Boys is stocked in major retailers like Whole Foods, Walmart, and Costco.In 2022, the breakfast and baked snack maker received a $7 million investment led by Equilibra Ventures the incubation and innovation platform of Kind Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky.

Mathison is the first all-inclusive technology for diversity hiring and retention. Their platform delivers top-of-funnel diversity sourcing, a system to reduce bias in the hiring process, and tools to mobilize the entire team around diversity hiring efforts.The company was founded by Arthur Woods and Dave Walsh in 2019, who saw the opportunity to build an end-to-end hiring solution for diversity, equity and inclusion DEI.The NYC-based DEI company closed $25 million in Series A funding, led by F-Prime Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, SemperVirens, ANIMO Ventures, GTM Fund, Gaingels and JP Morgan.

Modulr offers Payments-as-a-Service which automates payment flows, embeds payments in other platforms and enables customers to launch entirely new services. Most notably, their platform has offers the unique benefit of direct access to the Bank of England, allowing Modulr to settle funds at the UKs central bank.The companys clients include more than 200 companies, including Revolut, Wagestream, Sage and BrightPay, and their millions of customers.Modulr raised $108M 83M in Series C funding led by General Atlantic, and existing investors, with the goal of becoming the leading provider of embedded payments to digital businesses across the UK and Europe.

AI Rudder develops AI-powered voice solutions to improve B2C communications and help call centers reduce costs by automating repetitive tasks and lowering agent workload.Founded in 2019, AI Rudder develops advanced voice AI technology to help businesses solve B2C communication challenges across a range of different industries, including banking and finance, fintech, insurance and e-commerce.The startup claims that its client list has grown to more than 200 since launching three years ago and revenue quadrupled last year alone, though they havent shared specific figures.The Singapore-based enterprise voice AI startup closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global and Coatue with this 8-slide pitch deck. The new investment comes just four months after AI Rudder closed a Sequoia Capital India-led $10 million round.

San Francisco-based BlueOcean provides an AI-powered cloud platform that helps companies track their brand awareness and monitor related marketing metrics. For example, a retailer could use the platform to measure the brand awareness around a newly launched product line.The company launched out of stealth in 2020 after two years in development to provide AI-driven brand audits for just $17,000 in seven days. After raising a $15M Series A, the team grew from 11 to 100 employees in 12 months and the company scaled up to serve 84 global brands representing $18 trillion in market value. Although their revenue numbers are not public, the startup claims to have grown greater than three times continuously.In 2022, BlueOcean raised $30 million in fresh funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from FJ Partners.

Y-Combinator backed startup Riogrande YC W21 is building the future of online sales in the LatAm market by joining forces with e-commerce entrepreneurs to grow and strengthen brands people love. This pitch deck helped Riogrande raise their initial $12M seed round led by Y Combinator and Wollef, with participation from individual investors including Arielle Zuckerberg and Justin Mateen.

Paddle is a revenue delivery platform, which allows B2B SaaS businesses to amalgamate their workflow and become more efficient at selling digital products and subscriptions. The UK-based company is on a mission to take away the pain of payments fragmentation in a unique way, by serving as the merchant of record for software SaaS companies.Paddle handles all payment routing, tax collection, compliance, invoicing, subscription management, renewals, reporting, and fraud protection. The startup was founded in 2012 by CEO Christian Owens and co-founder Harrison Rose, who wanted to make it easier for software companies to sell their products.In 2022, Paddle raised $200m in Series D equity and debt financing at a valuation of $1.4bn, making it the UKs latest unicorn. The Series D investment led by KKR with participation from previous backers FTV Capital, 83North, Notion Capital, Kindred Capital, brings the companys total financing to $293 million.

With Hello Heart, people can better track improve their heart health. Their AI-powered technology helps people manage their heart health at home using their smartphone.Hello Hearts clinically-based solution is aimed at people with high blood pressure, with the mission of empowering people to understand and manage their heart health. Founded in 2013, Hello Heart is a member of the American Heart Associations Innovators Network and part of the CVS Health Point Solutions Management Program. Hello Heart snagged $70 million in Series D capital in early 2022, led by growth equity firm Stripes.

OurSong began as a research project at the Ideation Lab of Taiwans leading media technology company, KKBOX Group. The company was launched by 12-time Grammy winner John Legend and a team of five co-founders seeking to build a better system for creators to be discovered, monetize their work, and engage with fans through NFTs.Their mobile app aims to build a community for digital art creators and artists by leveraging NFTs to help them gain fans and earn from their creative works. In April 2022, the company announced it raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by Infinity Ventures and Animoca Brand.