Thanksgiving is long behind us, so unless you’re already in due diligence with a VC, you may as well pack up your fundraising knapsack and chill out until […]
Sample Seed pitch deck: Scalestack’s $1M deck
AI is everywhere, and predictably, sales teams are among the early adopters. So I wasn’t surprised to see Scalestack raise $1 million to help make sales teams’ lives […]
Your pitch deck needs to be machine-readable
A while ago, I built a tool that uses AI to give feedback on hundreds of pitch decks. Every morning, I skim through the pitch deck reviews my […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: Aether’s $49M Series A deck
Aether’s pitch deck is a real head-scratcher. The company says that it raised almost $50 million to “extract lithium from previously inaccessible reserves.” That makes sense: Lithium is […]
Raising without a deck is more common than you think
If you want to raise venture capital funding, you should be able to tell a compelling story to get anywhere. What’s more, according to conventional wisdom, your story […]
How to fundraise when your deep tech startup sounds like sci-fi
Maureen Haverty Contributor Maureen Haverty is principal investor at Seraphim Space Manager LLP. She joined the business following a successful career in the space industry, working as COO […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: Point.me’s $10M Series A deck
Collecting points is a lifestyle for many. Getting great deals on flights, for example, by carefully collecting and spending points can make the difference between slumming it in […]
Don’t use builds, reveals or animations in your pitch deck
Your pitch deck is your pièce de résistance when you’re trying to convey a ton of information about your startup to a would-be investor in as few slides […]