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“Discover Geodesic.Life: A Comprehensive Pre-Seed Pitch Deck with a $500k Investment Opportunity”

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Cover slide Problem slide 1 Problem slide 2 Product image slide Solution slide What Is Unique? The business model comes up shortClosely related to the previous point: Pricing is one side of the business model, but there are many more parts to the puzzle. The business model slide is very light on details, and the details that are there are a little confusing. The full pitch deckIf you want your own pitch deck teardown featured on TechCrunch, here’s more information. Also, check out all our Pitch Deck Teardowns all collected in one handy place for you!

“Breaking Down Xpanceo’s $40M Seed Pitch Deck: A Stellar Example”

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There’s a big difference between a “solution” and a “product” slide. The biggest problem with the Xpanceo deck isn’t what is in there, but rather what isn’t. The market sizing fallacyWhen assessing the potential market size for Xpanceo’s contact lenses, it’s crucial to differentiate the nature of the product from traditional contact lenses. The full pitch deckIf you want your own pitch deck teardown featured on TechCrunch, here’s more information. Also, check out all our Pitch Deck Teardowns all collected in one handy place for you!

“Deconstructing Queerie’s Successful $300K Pre-Seed Pitch Deck”

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Slides in this deckQueerie shared its full, unredacted, 13-slide pitch deck with TechCrunch. Cover slide Cover slide part 2 Mission slide Problem slide Solution slide Market size slide How it works slide Traction slide Competition slide Team slide Ask and Use of Funds slide 6-year (!) Slides in a pitch deck should help an investor decide to invest. The full pitch deckIf you want your own pitch deck teardown featured on TechCrunch, here’s more information. Also, check out all our Pitch Deck Teardowns all collected in one handy place for you!

Critique of Protecto’s $4M Seed Pitch Deck

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The left-hand side of the slide has too much info (why are funding, product and customers on the team slide?) Three things that Protecto could have improvedPitch deck design isn’t usually that important, but the design of this deck is particularly bad. These case studies aren’t case studiesIn a 14-slide deck, Protecto wastes slide 4 as an interstitial (it just says “our platform”). The full pitch deckIf you want your own pitch deck teardown featured on TechCrunch, here’s more information. Also, check out all our Pitch Deck Teardowns all collected in one handy place for you!

Analyzing SuperScale’s $5.4 Million Series A Pitch Deck

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Twenty-two slides might seem like too many (the optimal length for a slide deck is around 16 slides these days), but there are some interstitial slides and an appendix in this one, and those don’t really count. This team slide came as a bit of a surprise:Putting this slide at the end of the deck makes me wonder about the seriousness of this startup. If it has five business units and 70+ team members, it throws the rest of the deck out of whack. On slide 12, the company noted it had $7.5 million worth of revenue from just its case study clients. The full pitch deckIf you want your own pitch deck teardown featured on TechCrunch, here’s more information!

Deconstructing the CommandBar Pitch Deck: A Closer Look at their $4.8M Seed Funding Presentation

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Startups typically operate under tight budget constraints, and spending significant time and money on pitch deck design may not be the best use of limited resources. Your mileage may vary, but your pitch deck does need to be machine-readable. For reference, my AI-powered pitch deck tool gave this deck a 16.9% chance at raising funding. “The stellar early customer traction, with some marquee logos, certainly helped!”The full pitch deckIf you want your own pitch deck teardown featured on TechCrunch, here’s more information. Also, check out all our Pitch Deck Teardowns all collected in one handy place for you!

“Doola’s $1 Million Deck: The Pinnacle of Our Sample Series A Extension Pitch”

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Cover slide Funding timeline slide Problem slide Solution slide Product slide Strategy slide Product portfolio slide Market size slide How it works slide U.S. market opportunity slide Global market opportunity slide Vision slide Team slide (?) But it’s interesting to see Doola take a different tack to arrive at a potential market size of $4.5 billion per year. As I mentioned earlier, there’s a vast amount of information missing from this pitch deck. So much, in fact, that it is essentially useless as a traditional pitch deck. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll look at three things Doola could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck!

“Unveiling Rypplzz: A $3 Million Seed Deck for Your Inspiration”

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This week, we’re taking a look at a pitch deck from Rypplzz (pronounced “ripples”), a spatial technology startup that recently raised $3 million. As a rule, a pitch deck should never exceed 20MB because many email servers don’t like big attachments. While this slide explains what the product is and its capabilities, it falls short of being a comprehensive product slide. Enhancing a product slide with these details can elevate the pitch and make it more compelling. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things Rypplzz could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck!

Qortex’s $10 M Presentation Deconstruction: Analyzing the Seed Deck

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This week’s Pitch Deck Teardown comes to you from the PCB-laden confines of CES in Las Vegas. Today, we’re looking at the slide deck that video analytics firm Qortex used to raise a $10 million seed round. To be honest, I’m a little surprised the company managed to raise money at all with this pitch deck, but the fact that it did manage to raise $10 million is a good reminder that the deck is only a part of the puzzle. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things Qortex could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck! Three things that could be improvedAbove, I noted the glaring absence of several key slides that investors usually like to see in a pitch deck.

“Unlocking the Perfect Venture Investor: A Guide”

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Well, now that we’re in recovery mode, there are new rules to play by when it comes to identifying, pitching and partnering with the right investor. LPs are being more selective, and the bar for deals is higher now, writes Paul Hsu, founder and CEO of Decasonic, a venture and digital assets fund. He shares 12 tips on how to find the right venture partner in this new environment. “As organizations ramp up their shift toward AI-centric business models, it’s not just about staying competitive — it’s also about survival.”Get the TechCrunch+ Roundup newsletter in your inbox! Building a viable pricing model for generative AI features could be challengingAnd finally, as generative AI features become more ubiquitous, companies are finding that monetizing these add-ons is hard.