TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

No founder event would be complete without pitches! TechCrunch editorial is looking for 6-7 founders to take part in a Pitch Deck Teardown. Mastering the Pitch Deck Pitches are critical in the quest for funding and first customers. Without further ado, here are your judges for the TC Early Stage Pitch Deck Teardown.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Twenty-three members of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab cohort are pitching today to an audience of over 300 investors, potential partners, and customers. Since its founding in 2017 the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Labs has established a track record of success. Twelve of 23 cohort members are based in U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2015

It''s a co-working space full of creatives and freelancers, most of whom who have never pitched an investor, and probably never seen a startup pitch either. The first question I always get, which I find endlessly hilarious, is "Don''t you get tired of people pitching you all the time?". I''m just trying to be helpful.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. The introduction of these two new funds, each worth $150 million, brings Toyota Ventures’ total assets under management to over $500 million.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“VCs are looking for a grand slam,” according to Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures. Selling a compelling vision is so critical that some investors weigh it more heavily than the pitch deck itself. By Charles LaCalle Director of Sourcing at Dreamit Ventures. It’s not about the slide deck.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Three of the four pitching finalists were women entrepreneurs focusing on health and wellness issues. When the organizers of Venture Atlanta 2023 put together this year’s program, they decided to add some excitement. This heightened the audience’s anticipation in view of the substantial size of the investment that was at stake.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Register AIOX Apex Angel Fund (AIOX) has introduced a new venture fund with a dedicated focus on deeptech and web3. In pursuing innovation and technological advancement, AIOX joins forces with X-PITCH 2023, to nurture founders in deeptech and web3. “We see immense potential in partnering with X-PITCH.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are not yet ready to pitch an investor. AI is far broader than the buzz would even imply!

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 1, 2022

You might think my job is about saying “yes” to founders, but statistically it’s *actually* about saying “no,” given we typically see 3,000+ companies annually in order to make 10–12 investments. But as a venture investor, I hate it. faces of venture capital. Hopefully every startup finds the right investors! 18–24 months.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. As a result, I began meticulously cataloging the pitch conversations I listened to and ended up with nearly four hundred thousand words in transcript data.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 26, 2020

This is the 3rd post in the “Startup Pitching” series. These are the projections for a royalty-based investment fund. Spell out for people why your team is right for your venture. View all posts in the “Startup Pitching” series. In this post we’ll go over advanced-level (301) techniques.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. Slides in this deck The team submitted this slide deck with the note that it was submitted exactly as it pitched it to the investors. Not all in good ways, but I’m getting slightly ahead of myself.

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Dream It

MAY 29, 2019

Startup pitch meetings are pretty predictable. You walk into a venture fund’s conference room or Zoom room (if they’re progressive), pitch the partners, offer to answer their questions, maybe ask them a bland question or two, and then leave the meeting to await a response. What metrics do you need to see to invest in my company?

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Triet’s journey in the world of investing began as a self-taught retail trader, a path he pursued to support his college education. It was during his tenure at Capital Factory that Triet discovered his passion for startups and venture capital, eventually leading him into the world of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Today, TechCrunch is hosting TC Spotlight: Austin — a virtual event highlighting the innovation, investment and entrepreneurship in the region. In true TechCrunch fashion, part two is a pitch-off with an amazing group of of founders from the Texas region. The pitch-off is split into two segments. Register here for free.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Long-term angel investing: Understanding capital requirements and how to find quality investments. But there’s a reason successful angel investors are few and far between: returns may take several years to materialize, and not all companies you want to invest in will want your money. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Lotti Siniscalco is a partner at Emergence Capital , where she invests in early-stage enterprise software companies. During TechCrunch’s Early Stage event, she headlined a session dedicated to giving feedback on pitch decks. Constructing pitch decks is part art and part science. I’m sending you this pitch deck. .”

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 22, 2020

Pitch deck outlines are ok, but they don’t say much about what you’re trying to convey besides particular categories that may or may not be relevant. Too often people only pitch what they have, not where they’re going—and they forget that fundraising is selling tickets to the future, not asking for rewards for the past.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

On our last episode of TechCrunch Live, we spoke with Wessler and Kindred Ventures’ Kanyi Maqubela to learn how its first fundraising deal came together and how Heartbeat’s pitch deck helped convince Kindred to invest. Insight versus experience. It’s a problem that gripped you.” ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Investors think a great deal about a great number of things when considering an investment: How big is the market? Is it venture-scale? In the context of building a great product, founders are creating an investment pitch that reflects their day-to-day life. How good is the founder-market fit? That makes sense.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The venture capital market is on a tear , pumping capital into a host of startups around the world. While the venture capital boom of the last few years has helped a great number of founders, the capital is not landing equally. Black Ops Ventures wants to shake up the norm and invest in Black founders as its focus.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

Hosted by Delaware Prosperity Partnership , fifteen finalists from Delaware and surrounding states are competing for a share of $215,000 in non-dilutive funding and other awards with winning ventures receiving up to $20,000 in grants along with mentorship and other support.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2023

But I’ve always found those same focuses to be especially in conflict with what it means to be an early-stage founder pitching your vision: You have to have Elon Musk-level ambition, big dreams and the ability to sell a company to investors before there are any real metrics behind it. What is this, revenue growth for ants?

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Dream It

APRIL 21, 2020

When pitching investors, remember that your ask is like porridge; it follows the goldilocks ratio and has to be just right. Here are some common red flags for venture investors: Red Flag #1 : Ask isn’t tied to specific fundable milestones. So the question remains: what is the appropriate amount of funding founders should request?

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 7, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Faye Sahai, Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures. Faye Sahai is Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund investing in digital wellness and mental health. How did you break into tech investing? Pitch smarter, not harder.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Over the course of the past 10 weeks, I’ve taken apart 10 pitch decks as part of our Pitch Deck Teardown series. We want your pitch decks for our Pitch Deck Teardowns! When you’re raising funds for your company, chances are that you’re trying to convince a venture capital firm to give you money.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Are you actually ready to pitch? When pitching, the startup has to put a number on the table. But, set the valuation too high, and you won’t get any investment. He started as an employee in the banking industry before building Neybar which gained hundreds of millions of investment from non-VC sources. Let’s do this.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The crew here at TechCrunch has done a lot of writing about making amazing pitch decks over the years, and I figured it was time that I put together a collection of all of it in one handy spot. Are you VC-investable? Before you start pitching. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

The venture capital market is slowing down, which means early-stage founders are chasing a smaller pool of money. “Oftentimes, investors have a sense of whether a pitch is going to go somewhere within the first 15-20 minutes of a conversation.” Not all investors expect to invest in the next unicorn.”. billion to $1.81

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

That changes today, since ANYbotics was kind enough to share its pitch deck so we could take a closer look at the highs and lows of four-legged ‘bots. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. Here are three things I loved about the pitch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Last year, more than 20% of venture dollars went into fintech startups globally, according to CB Insights. But while this year’s pace of funding in the fintech space is noticeably slower — and falling — the fact remains that the sector still accounts for a significant share of venture funding globally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live (formerly Extra Crunch Live) , Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan and Nick Fajt, founder and CEO of social gaming platform Rec Room , explained what the venture capital firm looks for in consumer-facing startups. You can check out the whole episode as well as the Rec Room pitch deck below.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. The diversity is the direct result of our mission—to build the most accessible venture capital fund in NY. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Five have LGBTQ+ founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. One is as a pitch coach for startups, and the other is as a reporter here at TechCrunch, which includes writing our fantastically popular Pitch Deck Teardown series. I have two day jobs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Data indicate that the pace of startup value creation reached a fever pitch in 2021. According to venture capital data collected by PitchBook , prices spiked for startup equity across the maturity spectrum last year. Larger venture capital funds are also a driving force behind the pricing dynamics uncovered by the data.

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