Startup Pitch Decks

Juno is a global employee benefits platform that allows employees to use their employer-provided Juno Points to purchase a variety of services and products for their well-being, ranging from organic vegetable boxes to therapy sessions and language classes.Over 160 companies in 40 countries are already using the platform, including Bolt, Oyster, Born Social, and Paddle. Their user base increased tenfold last year Juno is now the worlds largest employee wellness program of its kind.Juno recently announced that it has raised $4 million in a round led by Hoxton Ventures and joined by angels including Juno early adopters Tony Jamous, CEO of OysterHR, and Christian Owens, CEO of Paddle. Other angel investors include the CEOs of Learnerbly, Captify, Jungle Creations, SuperAwesome, and Heights.

Thunkable alumnus of MITs App Inventor and Y-Combinator is a no-code platform that empowers non-technical users to build powerful native apps. With Thunkable, anyone can design and code simply drag-and-drop to create fast, native, reliable apps.Thunkable raised a $30 million Series B round, led by Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and PJC.

Starburst is betting on a decentralized future of big data and pursuing an unconventional view in the burgeoning data industry, which is currently dominated by the cloud data behemoth Snowflake. Starburst promises the ability to run analytics on data from a variety of sources simultaneously, without needing to extract or transform data so it can be loaded into a single destination data warehouse. The company announced in Feb 2022 that it raised $250 million from Alkeon Capital, nearly tripling its valuation to $3.35 billion.

Founded in 2012 by Tom Okman and Eimantas Sabaliauskas, Nord Security was created as an internet security and privacy platform that was easily accessible to everyone. The company provides a host of cybersecurity products for businesses individuals, and has enjoyed robust year-on-year growth as the market leader in the cybersecurity space.The company raised $100 million in its first round of external funding led by Novator, Burda Principal Investments, General Catalyst, and individuals including Ilkka Paananen of Supercell, Miki Kuusi of Wolt, and Matt Mullenweg of Automattic also participating. This round of financing values the startup at $1.6 billion the funds will be used to hire more staff, invest in research and expand the Nord product suite.

Sano has created a data-sharing platform that allows anyone to contribute their medical and genetic data in order to be matched with clinical research. To speed up genetic illness research, the company also provides free genomic sequencing and analysis to those who participate in its associated research programs.The Cambridge-based genetics startup has doubled its revenue every six months since its inception in 2017 and forged strong partnerships with the top genetic biobanks in the UK and Australia, as well as patient groups.This growth led to a recent $11 million Series A round led by MMC Ventures, with participation from Episode 1, Seedcamp, and angels including Paul Forster, co-founder and ex-CEO of Indeed, former VP of innovation at PatientsLikeMe Paul Wicks, and former CEO of Ancestry.com Margo Georgiadis.

Ark Kapital is a data-driven precision financing company that helps early-stage startups thrive by providing long-term loans while keeping founders in control and lowering the risk for investors.The Swedish-based startup, which was launched in 2021, analyses the financial health of early-stage tech businesses using AI and machine learning and provides precise loans based on their performance.Ark Kapital announced that it has raised $182 million in a mix of debt and equity funding. The round was led by Local Globe, with participation from Creandum and angel investors including Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen, iZettle founder Jacob de Geer, and EQT Ventures founding partner Hjalmar Winbladh.According to the company, the new capital will be used for investing in promising companies, RD, and doubling the 20-person team within 2022.

Hundreds of companiesfrom startups to enterprisesuse Secureframe to automate their SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HIPAA compliance. Secureframe provides continual compliance monitoring in addition to automatic compliance, ensuring that service providers securely manage data to safeguard the organizations interests and the privacy of its clients.The companys annual recurring revenue increased by 10x in 2021, while its customer base increased by 7x. Some of the customers include Stream, Dooly, Lob, Ramp, Instabase, Slab, and Doodle, among others. Secureframes growth can be credited to the platforms ease of use, which connects with over 100 major business applications to scan for compliance-related issues procedures that could take up to eight weeks can be reduced to days or even shorter with its capabilities.

Amagi Media Labs is an Indian cloud broadcast and targeted advertising startup that helps content owners build their own channels and distribute them to Ad-supported video on demand AVOD platforms like Samsung TV Plus, The Roku Channel, and Pluto TV.They also offer 247 cloud-managed services bringing simplicity, advanced automation, and transparency to the entire broadcast operations for traditional TV networks. Amagi Media Labs started as a small SaaS startup in India in 2008, with its sights set on the rapidly growing streaming sector. Currently, Amagi works with 500 content brands, managing 2000 channel deliveries, with deployments in over 40 countries.

Friday Beers began as an Instagram account in late 2019 by brothers Jack, Max, and Sam Barrett, and grew in prominence as a relatable voice in the weekend culture, sports, music, and character-driven humor. The Venice Beach-based company, which employs 15 full-timers, has been profitable every quarter since its beginning, thanks exclusively to organic growth. Today, Almost Friday has many business lines, each of which generates over $1 million in yearly revenue. Friday Beers rebranded as Almost Friday Media after raising $6 million in seed funding from a group of investors led by former AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and finance executive Robert Greenhill, Jr. Other investors included Lloyd Danzigs Sharp Alpha Advisors, Northern Right Capitals Matt Drapkin, Dreamscape Hospitalitys Scott Broder, Tom Ellis, Eric Birnbaum, and Jimmy Miller, founder of Mosaic Media Group.

Claap is an asynchronous meeting platform for video and collaboration. Claap says its product allows employees to record a short video update on a topic, allow others to comment on the relevant part, and set a due date for team members to respond. Colleagues then view the video and respond in their own time.

Earl Grey Capital was founded by the founders of Clearbit to invest in the next wave of early-stage tech companies. The VC firm primarily invest in companies and projects building the foundational layers of the internet ie. APIs, protocols, platforms, and web infrastructure both web2 and web3.Earl Greys LPs include notable angel investors like Naval Ravikant, Josh Buckley, David Sacks, Josh Hannah, JD Ross. Their portfolio includes startups backed by Sequoia Tiger Global, such as Union54 and Truework.

Not Boring Capital launched in 2021, investing mainly in Seed through Series B companies, with occasional pre-seed and growth-stage investments.Not Boring 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.

Squire provides a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers nationwide, as well as the premier management platform for barbershops. With fully-integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business.Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon launched Squire in 2014, with the vision of building a platform to handle bookings, payment, analytics, and other business services, for barbershops.According to Forbes, Squire earned roughly $4 million in 2020 revenue, despite waiving subscription fees during the COVID-19 while nearly all barbershops were closed.Squire raised a $59M Series D round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Iconiq, CRV, and Trinity Ventures. With this funding, Squire tripled its valuation, valued at $750 million based off of 300 year-over-year revenue growth.

Nanonets enables self-service artificial intelligence by simplifying adoption organizations can easily build machine learning models with minimal training data or knowledge. Nanonets machine learning API takes only a tenth of the data and no machine learning knowledge to train a model, hence addressing both of these issues for businesses.

Scipher Medicine is a startup working in the Precision Medicine domain. The platform is intended to employ artificial intelligence to decide which drug will be most effective for each patient. The firm is constructing a molecular map of all protein interactions that identifies genomic signatures and link those to disease and predictive treatment outcomes. Scipher Medicine can predict whether a patient will respond to a targeted medicine using a simple blood sample and RNA analysis before the therapy is prescribed. Having raised a total of $117 million in three financing rounds since its inception in 2015, Scipher Medicine announced the close of a $110M round led by Cowen Inc., with participation from new investors Neuberger Berman, Hitachi Ventures, Laurion Capital Management LP, and Monashee Investment Management LLC. Existing investors Northpond Ventures, aMoon Fund, Khosla Ventures, Optum Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Alumni Ventures also participated.

Backbone is the brainchild of a young entrepreneur Maneet Khaira, who was working at Google as an intern when he came up with his startup idea for a device that could turn an iPhone into a portable Xbox.Compact, natural, and comfortable, the Backbone One iOS controller wraps your iPhone in a high-quality gamepad shell thats satisfying to play, well-constructed, and accompanied by a genuinely useful app. iPhones Lightning port automatically pick up connectivity to Backbone One and the companion app has a lot of useful features too. It can capture, edit and upload gaming content as well as supports voice chat with friends that works across any app.

Vangst announced the completion of its $19 million Series B financing round in January 2022 led by Level One Fund, with participation from existing investors such as Lerer Hippeau and Casa Verde Capital, as well as new investors such as L2 Ventures and Delta Emerald Ventures. Since the start of its gig product offering in 2018, Vangst has filled over 150,000 part-time jobs as the first and only gig platform in the cannabis industry. Karson Humiston describes the company as the hiring platform of the cannabis industry and according to internal company data, 80 of cannabis businesses use Vangst to hire personnel.

Crowdbotics offers hundreds of ready-to-use code packages that users can drop into their mobile or web app without having to write a single line of code. Customers can also use the platform to design, construct, and deploy app or integration with the help of skilled developers and PMs.

At authID, We Are Digital Identity. authID provides secure, mobile, biometric identity verification software products through Verified, an easy-to-integrate Identity as a Service IDaaS platform. Our suite of self-service biometric identity proofing and authentication solutions frictionlessly eliminate passwords through consent-based facial matching. Powered by sophisticated biometric and artificial intelligence technologies, authID.ai aims to strengthen security and trust between businesses and their customers.

Glow Labs is the creator of blockchain-based rewards software tailored for white-label loyalty programs. The platform utilizes cryptocurrency to establish a connection with users wallets, facilitating the seamless distribution of real-time rewards upon transaction confirmation within the Metaverse ecosystem.