It’s unlikely your curve will be this smooth. Describe the concrete benefits you provide You want to explain what you do very clearly, in as few words as possible. Particulars of how this problem impacts real world people/businesses are valuable. This is where you clearly state the problem. You probably don’t want any set here where n > 3.

If you can keep the set to n=1, that’s ideal, but if you need more, that’s ok. Any of the other slides in this deck should be treated as a first slide of a set.

This is the only place in the deck where you can only have 1 slide for what you need to show. It has the name of your company, and a one line description of what you do. When founders pretend that there is, their stories get muddled, and the investors get lost.įocus on narrative. The simple truth is that there isn’t very much meaningful detail to explore for most seed stage companies. This is not the right place to write a treatise on your market or world philosophy. The key point to remember here is that founders should strive for clarity and concision. While the main target for this template is a company raising its seed round, the deck is not all that different from best practices for a Series A deck – which we’ll release next. The deck below is a template for how I think companies should build seed decks. I’ve written about pitching before, and realized that what we were missing was a clear template for how founders should lay out their stories through slides. We’re largely focused on preparing companies for their on-stage presentations, but are also working with them on slightly longer decks to use in follow-up conversations with investors. Demo Day for our Winter 2018 batch is a week from today.

Pitch deck template