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.
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TechCrunch is on the hunt for 200 early-stage founders to feature in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this October.
Back in 2022, the Startup Battlefield expanded to include a showcase of the top 200 companies from across the globe.
Apply NowShowcasing global foundersFrom the Startup Battlefield 200, we will select 20 companies for the Startup Battlefield competition.
The only way early-stage startups can exhibit on the show floor at Disrupt is through Startup Battlefield, and the only way to be a Startup Battlefield Finalist is to be selected for Startup Battlefield 200.
How to become a part of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200The process is simple.
Enter Underscore VC’s Lily Lyman, who is coming to TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 in Boston to discuss how founders can build investor relationships with the right venture capitalists.
She will discuss how to build venture relationships ahead of time, and how founders can — and should!
In today’s more stringent venture environment, founders can’t run a 2021-era playbook (unless they are building an AI foundational model company, I suppose).
So, bring your notebooks and questions to Lyman’s Early Stage session coming up next month.
She’ll be joined by a bevy of other startup folks who will be on hand to share their hard-earned wisdom.
The market for high-level quantum computer science — which applies quantum principles to manage complex computations in areas like finance and artificial intelligence — appears to be quickening its pace.
In the latest development, a startup out of San Sebastian, Spain, called Multiverse Computing is announcing that it has raised €25 million (or $27 million) in an equity funding round led by Columbus Venture Partners.
The funding, which values the startup at €100 million ($108 million), will be used in two main areas.
“Multiverse’s exceptional team will soon apply their unparalleled capability to deliver quantum and quantum-inspired software solutions also within the life sciences and biotechnology markets, where Columbus Venture Partners will help to identify unmet market needs and high-profile industrial partners,” Javier Garcia, a partner at Columbus Venture Partners, in a statement.
Others competing in the same space include the Alphabet spinout Sandbox AQ, Quantum Motion, and Classiq.
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.
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The five finalists to emerge from the Four Years From Now 2024 pitch competitionLong ago Mobile World Congress, which we’ve been covering all week, absorbed a side event for startups, the idiosyncratically named “Four Years From Now”.
Thus, out of hundreds of startups that applied and pitched, five finalists were selected by a panel of industry experts and investors after pitching their projects on stage.
Here’s a quick run-down of the five finalists to emerge from the competition.
The company is from South Korea and has raised $21.3 million to date.
WHISPPThis “Assistive Voice Tech and Calling App” was covered by TechCrunch last January.
Here’s your chance for something different: We’re excited bring back “So You Think You Can Pitch” at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024, our annual founder summit taking place in Boston on April 25.
At TC Early Stage, three founders will get to present their pitch deck for 4 minutes in front of an expert panel of judges and secure essential insight before stepping up to bat.
How it worksTechCrunch will be selecting three finalists to present their pitch deck onstage for 4 minutes.
Selected finalists will meet with the TechCrunch team beforehand to prep for their session.
About TechCrunch Early Stage 2024TechCrunch’s founder summit on April 25 in Boston, Massachusetts, empowers early-stage entrepreneurs, from pre-seed to growth stages, on their journey to success.
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!
Ten years ago, Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” to describe startups that reached $1 billion valuation.
At the time, there were only 39 startups on the list, but cut to today, where more than 500 companies now live on the list.
Not only did the number of unicorns boom, but also what they’re focused on shifted: The pendulum swung hard in the direction of B2B startups over the last decade — but the thing with pendulums is that eventually they swing back.
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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!
