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Starbucks' Investor Day Deck: 6 Lessons for Founders

A teardown of the "Triple Shot Reinvention" deck, with the full deck to download at the end.

Anthropic's Early Deck: The 10 Slides a 100-Person Startup Used to Sell Itself Before Reaching a $965B Valuation

Anthropic's Early Deck: The 10 Slides a 100-Person Startup Used to Sell Itself Before Reaching a $965B Valuation


A teardown of the talent pitch Daniela Amodei gave while Claude was still in private beta, and what founders can steal from it.

5 Lessons from Ford Credit's Deck to Make Your Financial Story More Credible

5 Lessons from Ford Credit's Deck to Make Your Financial Story More Credible


What founders can learn about cash, risk, and funding from a debt investor deck.

30+ Big Data Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Data Infrastructure Startup

30+ Big Data Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Data Infrastructure Startup


Data startups have a unique pitching problem. The product is often invisible to end users, the buyer is technical, and the value only becomes obvious once the data is flowing.


5 Lessons from Ford Credit's Deck to Make Your Financial Story More Credible

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5 Lessons from Ford Credit's Deck to Make Your Financial Story More Credible

What founders can learn about cash, risk, and funding from a debt investor deck.

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez

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Sep 18, 2026

Anthropic's Early Deck: The 10 Slides a 100-Person Startup Used to Sell Itself Before Reaching a $965B Valuation

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Anthropic's Early Deck: The 10 Slides a 100-Person Startup Used to Sell Itself Before Reaching a $965B Valuation

A teardown of the talent pitch Daniela Amodei gave while Claude was still in private beta, and what founders can steal from it.

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez

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Sep 18, 2026

5 Lessons from ElevenLabs’ Deck to Make Your AI Startup Pitch More Concrete

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5 Lessons from ElevenLabs’ Deck to Make Your AI Startup Pitch More Concrete

What a dubbing pitch teaches founders about customer pain, product proof, and market focus.

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Sep 18, 2026

Outgrowing Your Market? Shopify’s $849B Expansion Playbook

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Outgrowing Your Market? Shopify’s $849B Expansion Playbook

A founder's guide to focus, customer economics and expansion through Shopify's Investor Day presentation.

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Oct 15, 2026

63.4 Million Subscribers, Still Chasing Profit: What Founders Can Learn from Paramount

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63.4 Million Subscribers, Still Chasing Profit: What Founders Can Learn from Paramount

How to examine pricing, distribution, and costs when customer growth hasn't yet produced a sustainable business.

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Oct 15, 2026

How Palantir Makes the Case for $1 Million AI Deals

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How Palantir Makes the Case for $1 Million AI Deals

What founders can learn about moving enterprise buyers from an impressive demo to a credible buying decision.

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Oct 15, 2026

30+ Big Data Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Data Infrastructure Startup

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30+ Big Data Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Data Infrastructure Startup

Data startups have a unique pitching problem. The product is often invisible to end users, the buyer is technical, and the value only becomes obvious once the data is flowing.

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Sep 21, 2026

40+ Payments Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Payments Startup Investors Actually Believe

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40+ Payments Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Payments Startup Investors Actually Believe

Few startup categories look as attractive on paper as payments. Every transaction carries a fee, revenue grows with your customers' volume, and once a business routes its money through you, it rarely leaves.

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Sep 21, 2026

40+ Retail Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Retail or E-commerce Startup

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40+ Retail Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Retail or E-commerce Startup

Retail looks simple from the outside: sell a product people want and grow. Investors know it is anything but.

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Sep 21, 2026

Fintech Pitch Decks: How Coinbase, Griffin, and Others Convince Investors to Trust Them With Money

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Fintech Pitch Decks: How Coinbase, Griffin, and Others Convince Investors to Trust Them With Money

Inside real fintech decks: what it takes to convince investors to trust you with someone else's money.

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Sep 21, 2026

Healthcare Pitch Decks: How Two Chairs and Axle Health Prove Trust Before Traction

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Healthcare Pitch Decks: How Two Chairs and Axle Health Prove Trust Before Traction

Inside real healthcare decks: how founders prove legitimacy before they prove growth.

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Sep 21, 2026

Software Pitch Decks: What Dropbox, Intercom, and Today's AI Startups Show About Raising Money

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Software Pitch Decks: What Dropbox, Intercom, and Today's AI Startups Show About Raising Money

A look inside real decks — from Dropbox's earliest pitch to today's AI-native seed rounds.

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Sep 21, 2026

130+ AI Startup Pitch Deck Examples: How to Pitch AI Built for a Specific Industry

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130+ AI Startup Pitch Deck Examples: How to Pitch AI Built for a Specific Industry

Most of the AI startups raising today are not building foundation models. They are applying AI to a specific industry: healthcare, legal, finance, logistics, sales, security.

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Sep 21, 2026

30+ High-Interest AI Startup Pitch Decks: How AI Startups Attract Serious Investor Demand

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30+ High-Interest AI Startup Pitch Decks: How AI Startups Attract Serious Investor Demand

Some AI startups struggle to get a second meeting. Others have investors competing to get into the round.

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Sep 21, 2026

320+ Emerging Startup Pitch Decks: How to Raise Your First Round With Little Traction

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320+ Emerging Startup Pitch Decks: How to Raise Your First Round With Little Traction

Raising your first round is one of the hardest things a founder will do. You have an idea, maybe a prototype, perhaps a handful of users, and you need to convince investors to back something that barely exists yet.

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Sep 21, 2026

30+ Famous Startup Pitch Decks: Timeless Lessons From Historical Decks

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30+ Famous Startup Pitch Decks: Timeless Lessons From Historical Decks

Some of the most valuable companies of the last two decades started with a simple slide deck. Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox and Coinbase all had to convince early investors when they were small, unproven and, in many cases, misunderstood.

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Sep 21, 2026

20+ Unicorn Pitch Decks: How Billion-Dollar Startups Pitched Before They Were Unicorns

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20+ Unicorn Pitch Decks: How Billion-Dollar Startups Pitched Before They Were Unicorns

Every unicorn was once a small startup with a deck, a team and a story. Before Airbnb, Uber, Facebook or Coinbase were worth billions, their founders had to convince investors that an unproven idea could become something huge.

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Sep 21, 2026

10+ Y Combinator Pitch Decks: How YC-Backed Startups Pitch Investors

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10+ Y Combinator Pitch Decks: How YC-Backed Startups Pitch Investors

Y Combinator has shaped how a generation of founders thinks about pitching. Its approach is known for being direct: explain what you do clearly, show progress, and don't waste the investor's time.

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Sep 21, 2026

30+ Late-Stage Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Company on the Path to IPO or Exit

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30+ Late-Stage Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Company on the Path to IPO or Exit

Late-stage fundraising is a different game. Companies raising Series C, D and beyond are established businesses with significant revenue, large teams and, often, an eye on a future IPO or acquisition.

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Sep 21, 2026

70+ Series A Pitch Decks: How to Raise a Series A Round

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70+ Series A Pitch Decks: How to Raise a Series A Round

The Series A is where many startups stall. Raising a seed round on vision and early signals is one thing.

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Sep 21, 2026

30+ Series B Pitch Decks: How to Pitch Your Series B Round

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30+ Series B Pitch Decks: How to Pitch Your Series B Round

By the time a startup raises a Series B, it has proven that customers want its product. The Series B question is different: can the company turn what works into a scalable, efficient go-to-market machine?

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Sep 21, 2026

10+ Stealth Startup Pitch Decks: How to Raise Money While Staying in Stealth

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10+ Stealth Startup Pitch Decks: How to Raise Money While Staying in Stealth

Some founders choose to build quietly. They may be working on a technical breakthrough, entering a competitive market or simply want to perfect the product before revealing it.

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Sep 21, 2026

10+ Early-Stage Pitch Decks: The Slide-by-Slide Anatomy of an Early-Stage Deck

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10+ Early-Stage Pitch Decks: The Slide-by-Slide Anatomy of an Early-Stage Deck

The early stage is where most startups are made or broken. It's the moment when founders move from an idea to a real company, and when the first outside investors decide whether to take a bet.

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Sep 21, 2026

30+ Growth-Stage Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Startup That Is Ready to Scale

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30+ Growth-Stage Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Startup That Is Ready to Scale

At the growth stage, the question investors ask changes. It's no longer "does this work?" but "how big can this get, and how efficiently?"

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Sep 21, 2026

160+ B2B Startup Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Business-to-Business Startup

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160+ B2B Startup Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Business-to-Business Startup

Selling to businesses is one of the most reliable ways to build a venture-scale company. Contracts are larger, customers stay longer and revenue can grow within each account over time.

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Sep 21, 2026

30+ B2B2C Startup Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Business-to-Business-to-Consumer Startup

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30+ B2B2C Startup Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Business-to-Business-to-Consumer Startup

B2B2C startups sell to businesses that serve consumers. Think of a payment platform embedded in a marketplace, a health service offered through employers or an AI voice technology used inside consumer apps.

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Sep 21, 2026

100+ B2C Startup Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Consumer Startup

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100+ B2C Startup Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Consumer Startup

Consumer startups can grow faster and become more famous than almost any other kind of company. Airbnb, Uber, Spotify and Revolut all started by winning over individual people, one user at a time.

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Sep 21, 2026

19 C2C Startup Pitch Deck Entries: How to Pitch a Consumer-to-Consumer Marketplace

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19 C2C Startup Pitch Deck Entries: How to Pitch a Consumer-to-Consumer Marketplace

Consumer-to-consumer marketplaces connect people with other people: riders with drivers, sellers with buyers, hosts with guests, students with other students. When they work, they can grow through powerful network effects.

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Sep 21, 2026

Pre-Seed Pitch Deck Index: 129 Companies and Two Ways to Pitch Before Traction

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Pre-Seed Pitch Deck Index: 129 Companies and Two Ways to Pitch Before Traction

Two real cover slides, a 129-company index, and what each pitch approach signals.

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Sep 21, 2026

Novoflow's 9-Slide Deck: How Two Teenage Founders Raised $3.1M to Build AI Employees for Clinics

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Novoflow's 9-Slide Deck: How Two Teenage Founders Raised $3.1M to Build AI Employees for Clinics

A teardown of the YC deck behind Novoflow's seed round, and what it teaches founders about selling a big vision with five paying customers.

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez

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Sep 18, 2026

No Deck, Just a 2-Page Memo: How Omnia Raised €3.5M at Pre-Seed

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No Deck, Just a 2-Page Memo: How Omnia Raised €3.5M at Pre-Seed

A teardown of the memo an ex-Klarna founder used to convince Visionaries Club, and what it teaches founders about pitching without slides.

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez

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Sep 18, 2026

Revolut's £1.5M Seed Deck: The 11 Slides Behind a $115B Company

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Revolut's £1.5M Seed Deck: The 11 Slides Behind a $115B Company

A teardown of the pitch that got Balderton to write the first check, and what it teaches founders about seed decks today.

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez

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Sep 18, 2026

Starbucks' Investor Day Deck: 6 Lessons for Founders

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Starbucks' Investor Day Deck: 6 Lessons for Founders

A teardown of the "Triple Shot Reinvention" deck, with the full deck to download at the end.

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez

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Sep 18, 2026

JPMorgan's First Republic Deck: How to Sell a $173B Rescue in 7 Slides

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JPMorgan's First Republic Deck: How to Sell a $173B Rescue in 7 Slides

A teardown of the deck JPMorgan showed investors the morning a bank failed, and what it teaches founders about pitching.

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez

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Sep 18, 2026

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Outgrowing Your Market? Shopify’s $849B Expansion Playbook

A founder's guide to focus, customer economics and expansion through Shopify's Investor Day presentation.

Outgrowing Your Market? Shopify’s $849B Expansion Playbook
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Oct 15, 2026

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63.4 Million Subscribers, Still Chasing Profit: What Founders Can Learn from Paramount

How to examine pricing, distribution, and costs when customer growth hasn't yet produced a sustainable business.

63.4 Million Subscribers, Still Chasing Profit: What Founders Can Learn from Paramount
LockSimple

Oct 15, 2026

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How Palantir Makes the Case for $1 Million AI Deals

What founders can learn about moving enterprise buyers from an impressive demo to a credible buying decision.

How Palantir Makes the Case for $1 Million AI Deals
LockSimple

Oct 8, 2026

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783 European Seed Funds, Sorted by How to Actually Reach Them

Only 49 publish an inbox a partner or deal team reads. Here is how to work the other 734, and the playbook to do it in four weeks.

783 European Seed Funds, Sorted by How to Actually Reach Them
LockSimple

Oct 7, 2026

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Find a Fundraising Advisor Who Fits Your Raise

A directory of 149 advisor and firm records, including 110 that explicitly mention startups, to help you build your shortlist.

Find a Fundraising Advisor Who Fits Your Raise
LockSimple

Sep 21, 2026

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30+ Big Data Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Data Infrastructure Startup

Data startups have a unique pitching problem. The product is often invisible to end users, the buyer is technical, and the value only becomes obvious once the data is flowing.

30+ Big Data Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Data Infrastructure Startup
LockSimple

Sep 21, 2026

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40+ Payments Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Payments Startup Investors Actually Believe

Few startup categories look as attractive on paper as payments. Every transaction carries a fee, revenue grows with your customers' volume, and once a business routes its money through you, it rarely leaves.

40+ Payments Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Payments Startup Investors Actually Believe
LockSimple

Sep 21, 2026

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40+ Retail Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Retail or E-commerce Startup

Retail looks simple from the outside: sell a product people want and grow. Investors know it is anything but.

40+ Retail Pitch Decks: How to Pitch a Retail or E-commerce Startup
LockSimple

Sep 21, 2026

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Fintech Pitch Decks: How Coinbase, Griffin, and Others Convince Investors to Trust Them With Money

Inside real fintech decks: what it takes to convince investors to trust you with someone else's money.

Fintech Pitch Decks: How Coinbase, Griffin, and Others Convince Investors to Trust Them With Money

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