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“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!

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.

Breaking Down HomeCooks’ $3.2M Seed Deck: An Analysis of the Pitch Presentation

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Positioning itself as the “Etsy of food,” HomeCooks has grown rapidly and today serves around 7,000 customers. Quick spoiler alert here: At 25 slides, this deck is way too long, but it’s also one of the best pitch decks I’ve seen in a hot minute. Slides in this deckThe company shared its 25-slide deck in full, without redactions or edits. In this deck, HomeCooks shows that it has figured out how to make this work. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things HomeCooks could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck!

“Analyzing Metafuels’ $8M Climate Tech Seed Pitch Deck”

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There are some minor redactions, but the bulk of this slide deck is intact. In 2022, around 300 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel was produced, and that doubled this year to more than 600 million liters, per the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Let yourself nerd out about the techWhen you’re building a deep tech company, the tallest pole in the tent is always going to be the tech itself. Make it work, then make it work at small scale, then scale to production scale. In the rest of this teardown, we’ll take a look at three things Metafuels could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck!