TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch. “These models could begin to automate large portions of the economy,” the pitch deck reads.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Together, these documents will help distill not only your vision for the current fundraise, but more broadly the long-term differentiation and trajectory of your company. While you have undoubtedly already shared these responses by email or live discussion, it’s helpful to see all the correspondence documents in one place.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Sweden-based company’s product combines visual canvases with documentation to help professionals and teams go from idea to presentable work on the same screen — think Miro meets Notion meets a slew of other tools companies use to keep their knowledge in one place and their projects pointed more or less in the right direction.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success. Knowing who your target investors are and what they are looking for can help you tailor your pitch and increase your chances of getting funded.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link. Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Many programs still put a lot of focus on demo day rehearsals, prep, and on getting the pitch deck just right. It did for me, at least.

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Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

We assure you, they’re real : Singapore-based document verifier Accredify is now flush with $7 million to continue to tell you if your documents are real. It’s like Barbie’s Jeep, but in human size : French microcar startup Kate raised another $7.6 Catherine has more. Is my business model fundamentally flawed?”

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

From fundraising document templates , to tips on how to pitch , to strategies for navigating COVID — we hope that our library offers something useful to every founder. One of the most common requests we get from Startup School participants is that we provide more content than what is currently in the curriculum.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Pitch Deck Teardown: Honeycomb’s $50M Series D deck Image Credits: Honeycomb (opens in a new window) Startups that raise Series D rounds might have hundreds of employees, tens of millions in ARR and other proof points that demonstrate they’ve reduced risk, but they still need pitch decks.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

From using voice analysis to identify behavioral health issues to streamlining physician documentation of patient interactions, startups have incorporated voice technology to improve the value and efficiency of care. Physicians spend hours each week documenting their patient interactions in the EHR.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to documents seen by TechCrunch, employees will get normal pay and medical benefits until January 31, 2023 and are “expected to work” through that period. Career Karma, a platform that helps connect students to coding bootcamps, cut staff this year , while Flockjay pivoted away from its bootcamp pitch in 2021.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 3, 2021

15+ years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager (or 4×3 foot poster) to help you quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind your business model. In fact, it tells the story of your business, as you would in a good pitch. The BMC was a quantum leap forward. No map required.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us. ” Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M .” Thanks for reading — I hope you have a great weekend. Walter Thompson. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist. pre-seed deck.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

In an article written by Gai Sher and Ariela Benchlouch from the Innovation and Technology practice group at Greenspoon Marder LLP, the authors recap a recent guidance document released by the U.S. Copyright Office’s document and examine multiple legal developments in the space.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The startup provides dashboards from where users can build AI-powered workflows for tasks like claims processing, customer support and appointment scheduling, letting organizations automate both business processes and front-office, customer-facing tasks (if the sales pitch is to be believed).

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One can easily turn a KISS Canvas into a pitch deck for investors by simply creating slides that mirror the content in each row. 15+ years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager to help quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind our business models. The BMC was a quantum leap forward.

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StartupNation

APRIL 21, 2021

As Indiegogo indicates, crowdfunding campaigns with pitch videos tend to get four times the backing of those without a video. Your video needs a story arc: a structured, well-documented journey. Be sure to follow these storytelling best practices as you conceptualize your visual pitch: Educate yourself. Key takeaways.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. These documents are helpful for forming a new company, running your company, maintaining good corporate governance, and more. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

I work with a bunch of founders who have incredible stories, great pitch decks and solid businesses — and they get confused when investors turn them down anyway. An investment thesis is sometimes a detailed document, sometimes a deck and sometimes something as vague as “we know it when we see it.”

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 4, 2021

Be sure to share your story and vision with people ahead of pitching to investors. Speak to other founders that have raised money before raising it yourself, learn the lessons and get them to help prepare your pitch deck and investment documents.” – Chris Bacon, Komodo Wellbeing. Time to get pitching. Legal documentation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

There are a number of great examples of publicly available pitch materials, so draw from ones that you like the most. You should anticipate and plan for business, legal and other questions, and ensure your documents are in proper order. Be prepared to respond, quickly, to any questions raised about the documents.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. Pitch Deck Teardown: MedCrypt’s $25M Series B deck. She’s written a guide for incoming CISOs that contains a framework for setting goals, creating action plans and, most importantly, documenting risk. Image Credits: Medcrypt (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 Founders can then “drag and drop” their investor documents in any format. million (£5 million) to date in seed funding from angels and family offices.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 In a follow-up, he analyzed the pitch deck for Prelaunch.com’s $1.5 seed deck Three more from the TC+ team: How to feed your investors the data they want : Investors want best-of-the-best ESG data.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

The goals of such a meeting are the following: Give others enough information to form an adequate enough and objective picture of the business in order to check your blind spots and offer advice or other kinds of assitance (like intros to folks who have been there before or have the right skills to pitch in).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On December 2, 2018, Mitch pitched the company on ABC’s Shark Tank. There’s the all-important pitch, creative sets, unexpected reactions by five seasoned investors and the possibility of scaling growth fast with a cash infusion and industry connections. Perfecting My Pitch. I started my pitch, and everything went smoothly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

” Working with an attorney to create “strong and clear governing documents” early in your relationship goes a long way toward building trust on the founding team by creating general plans for how to handle events like future fundraising or M&A transactions. Pitch Deck Teardown: Vori’s $10M Series A deck.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

Theoretically, someone could meet you, sign your document, and write you a check for deposit that day, but that''s not how it usually works. If all my deals came as intros from trusted connections that I know for years versus at founder pitch events that''s interesting data. That''s an interesting question.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As expected, Patole and Gawande used Chronicle to build their pitch deck for fundraising. Chronicle is currently in closed beta, working with about 200 pilot users on a first version focused on founders’ pitch decks. The second are design tools like Canva and Pitch. The two-year-old startup announced today it has raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It’s a great time, and we hope you can join us to present your startup in the pitch feedback session at the end of the show. Each week during TCL, a founder and VC join a TechCrunch editor and talk through an early pitch deck — what worked, what didn’t work and what would the founder do differently.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate. Free Early Stage Consult - Fox will hire an outside consultant to provide advice on pitch decks or executive summaries.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Traditionally, SMEs were required to visit physical bank branches, provide extensive documentation, and endure lengthy approval processes for loans. MYbank has acknowledged the obstacles encountered by SMEs, which include limited coverage, depth, and accessibility of necessary financial services.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

I spend a good deal of time sharing deal flow up and downstream with Series A and B investors, and when they ask me about opportunities coming down the pipeline in 6-12 months, I usually share what I’ve been told from the founders themselves over email or phone — I become their subtle pitch man.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It included some well known firms that made me come for a team pitch and then only gave me literally 15 minutes when we’d scheduled an hour. My blog was wiped out. I wasn’t feeling it.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s a strong sales pitch. After long sessions, they realized that they didn’t have any notes from the conversations, and that well-documented discussions were going to be critical to their success. As soon as one team member is distributed, a meeting documentation tool is needed.”

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 15, 2023

Join us on Tuesday, June 13 from 2:00-5:00 PM as the teams pitch their ideas. Join us for the Pitch Event See who will win the $30,000 prize! We know that studies over the past 50 years have documented the benefits of strength training. The post Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator is hosting a Virtual Pitch Event!

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