Hey all, these decks helped us a ton when putting together our own so hope you find it useful.
My favorite deck has to be the Youtube deck - not because of the content of the deck but because of the story surrounding it:
Firstly, in the press release I linked up on the page Chad Hurley (Youtube CEO at the time) uses Blockbuster as a positive analogy, "the equivalent of moving one Blockbuster store a day over the Internet". Different times. 😂
Secondly, the deck came out as part of a court case where Viacom & Paramount were suing Youtube for sharing copyrighted content. In the court documents, Sequoia (their investor) partner Roelof Botha is defending Youtube's vision of "user generated content". The documents are truly fascinating and worth a read as Roelof goes through their investment process from start to finish.
@ryangum I love seeing pitch decks like these, would love to see smaller companies ones too.
I'd love there to be a post-mortem site to show what certain companies didnt get quite right and why they failed.
@bentossell that's an interesting idea. It takes guts and humility to share failure, but the learnings can be equally as valuable - so I'd love to put something together on it in the future Ben.
@gregoiregilbert we found these decks super helpful when doing our round, so I thought others would too.
The bit I love is reading the quotes from the founders. When sharing their fundraising stories, most of them talk about how they struggled with either their deck, investors or the process.
It's good to read about how they managed to get through it to the other side 📈 . That's why I included a few quotes - to highlight that they struggled just like everyone else, and give a bit of inspiration for anyone else trying to fundraise.
My favorite on this list:
(1) Buffer
(2) Front App
(3) Crew
(4) BuzzFeed
(5) MixPanel
As we see more and more pitches every day at Angel Kings, I'm most impressed with the startup pitch decks that identify problems, while keeping it simple. Buffer is a classic example of simple, clean product and identifiable problem. While Front App's aesthetics are hard to beat. Love this!
Ross D. Blankenship
CEO @ AngelKings.com
This is such a helpful collection! They seem to be slightly outdated as the investment criteria for Seed and for Series A seems to have changed in recent years. I really like the notes and articles that are linked though!
@ryangum thanks! love the Crew deck--will take a look at Front :)--Also maybe that could be for a future premium model, if you were able to "peek" at more recent decks, and if recent founders who got funding would be willing to earn a marginal amount for each view of a deck that they upload to your site.
@ryangum oh I hope with this proof I will be at last able to communication to my CEO what should and what shouldn't be in a deck! Sincerely - thank you!
I love the Observations section. Impactful pitches don't need to be lengthy. Curious to know the average number of investors who actually funded the startup or the average number of investors per round is the same thing?
Pros:
Thanks very much for the efforts to gather and consolidate these startup pitch decks for us
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This is AMAZING! We are at the exact point in our company's lifecycle that we needed something like this! Much appreciated, it will be put to good use!
A valuable resource for startup's . I've learnt from my chats with many founders that pitching for funding takes up almost all of the early years. I can see me recommending this from now on. Great work!
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I love the Observations section. Impactful pitches don't need to be lengthy. Curious to know the average number of investors who actually funded the startup or the average number of investors per round is the same thing?
Pros:Thanks very much for the efforts to gather and consolidate these startup pitch decks for us
Cons:Love to see more (different sizes)
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