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Pitch Deck Examples From the Most Successful Startups

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Track Who Viewed Your Documents During Your Fundraise

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Notion Fundraising Template

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BaseTemplates

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📒 Financial Model

Startup Financial Models Compared

Detailed Analysis of Financial Model Templates

Stephane Nasser

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💎 Pitch Deck

How to build a pitch deck in 2021

A video that explains how to build every slide

Maximilian Fleitmann

📹 Video

💎 Pitch Deck

Guide to investor pitch decks

How to build a great pitch deck

Richard Harroch

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

Y Combinator Seed Guide

A Guide That Explains The Principles for Your Seed Fundraise

Y Combinator

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

Y Combinator Series A Guide

A Guide That Explains the Principles for Your Series A Fundraise

Term Sheet Example with Annotations

Gust

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👷 Founders

Questions to Ask Your investor

30+ Questions You Should Ask Your Investor

BaseTemplates

📰 Article

💎 Pitch Deck

Investor Pitch Training

200+ Questions Venture Capital Investors and Business Angels Ask Founders

BaseTemplates

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👏 Process & Strategy

Fundraising Fundamentals

Key Concepts of Fundraising Explained

Learn What Types of Investors Exist

BaseTemplates

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

A Playbook For Fundraising

A Guide For Founders Who are Looking For Venture Capital

Lenny Rachitsky

📰 Article

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Revisiting The Term Sheet

All Terms from Term Sheets Explained in Detail

Brad Feld

📰 Article

📈 Metrics

Red Flag & Magic Numbers

All the Metrics That Matter to Investors

Secret Playbook Behind Emergence’s Perfect Record

Share your investor experiences, anonymously

What is a pitch deck?

Find Investors for Your Startup

Investor and Company Database

Crunchbase

🛠 Tool

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

SAFE Financing Documents

SAFE Document Templates

Y Combinator

📊 Template

💡 Inspiration

Learnings from 1000+ Pitches

Insights for Your Next Startup Pitch

Luqman Naeem

📰 Article

👷 Founders

Founder & Startup Profile

What Investors Look for in Startups & Founders

Ryan Hoover

📰 Article

💼 Investors

What I Wish I Knew Before

The Founder of LinkedIn Talks About the Process of Raising an Investment

Metrics for Your Startup Fundraising

Database of 37k+ Investors

Learn What is Meant with TAM / SAM / SOM

The Business Plan Shop

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

How to Raise Money

Part of Video Lecture Start a Startup

Marc Andreesen (a16z)

📹 Video

📈 Metrics

Metrics by Tim Ferris

Vanitry Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics

Thoughts on Unit Economics

Sam Altman

📰 Article

📬 Outreach

How to Get Meetings with Investors

How to Effectively and Strategically Meet with Investors

Aaron Harris (YC)

📹 Video

📈 Metrics

How to Assess a Startup

Ways to Assess a Startup

Stephane Nasser

📰 Article

💎 Pitch Deck

Top 10 Pitch Deck Books

Books That Help You Build a Better Pitch Deck

Videos on Different Topics

An Amazing Article About How to Valuate a Startup

How Much to Raise at What Valuation

Free & Basic SaaS Model

Christoph Janz

📊 Template

💰 Valuation

How To Value Your Startup

Valuation Tipps For Your Business

StartupGrind

📰 Article

👷 Founders

Slack Communities for a Startup CEO

A List of Communities for Founders

Tips on How to Sell Your Startup Idea

Everything Around CLTV

Podcast About Startup Fundraising

Discussions About Technology, Innovation, and Change

Venture Capital Deals Explained in Detail

Brad Feld

📚 Book

👷 Founders

Lessons From 100 Failed Startups

Describe Your Startup Idea

A Guide How to Describe Your Startup Idea

Gua

📰 Article

🍰 Captable

How to Make a Captable

Tutorial on Captable Building

VentureHacks

📹 Video

📬 Outreach

VC Cold Email Template

Template to Cold Outreach to Investors

Founderlibrary.com

📊 Template

👏 Process & Strategy

Raising Venture Capital

Learn How to Raise Money

Holloway

📚 Book

💰 Valuation

How VCs Calculate Valuations

Blogpost About How VCs Calculate Valuation

Understanding Startup Equity

500Startups

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

When And How to Raise VC Money

Presentation on How and When to Raise Venture Capital

NYU

👋 Other

👏 Process & Strategy

What All Founders Should Do Before Fundraising

Guide to Pre-Fundraising VC Research

Lolita Taub

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

How to Close a Pre-Seed Round in a Virtual World

How Does Online Fundraising Work?

January Ventures

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

Using Your Current Investors

How to Use Your Investors to Find New Ones

Mike Preuss

📰 Article

📬 Outreach

The Bull Case For Cold Calling VCs

Great Read About How You Can Cold-Call VCs

Liron Azrielant

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

What’s The FIRST Thing You Need to Do Before Fundraising?

How to Plan Your Fundraising Right

Fundamentals About How to Start a Startup

Tyler Bosmeny

📹 Video

💡 Inspiration

The 7 Pitching Habits for Highly Effective Founders

Article About How to Find The Right Investor in No Time

500 Startups

📰 Article

📬 Outreach

What Should You Send a VC Before a Meeting

Intel You Should Hand Over to Your Investor Before a Meeting

Mark Suster

📰 Article

💡 Inspiration

What Makes a Good Pitch

Good Read on How to Structure Your Pitch Deck

Mark Suster

📰 Article

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

How to Read a Term Sheet

Learn How to Read a Term Sheet

Hyde Park Angels

📰 Article

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

The Economics of a Term Sheet

(Video) Detailed Explanation of Term Sheets

Andreesen Horowitz

📹 Video

💰 Valuation

How to Talk About a Valuation When a VC Asks

Guide on How to Talk About Your Evaluation With Investors

Mark Suster

📰 Article

💡 Inspiration

What The Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A

Article of Seed Funding

Josh Kopelman

📰 Article

🍰 Captable

The Option Pool Shuffle

The Option Pool Explained

Naval Ravikant

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

Fundraising Advice to Avoid

Fundraising Myths You Should Avoid

Martin Casado (a16z)

🐦 Tweetstorm

💼 Investors

Improve Your Odds of Getting to Yes With a VC

Understand Wow VC Partnerships Make Decisions

Mark Suster

📰 Article

📈 Metrics

Key B2B Metrics to Communicate to an Investor

B2B Metrics You Need to Communicate to an Investor

500 Startups

📰 Article

💼 Investors

Black Box of Venture Capital Explained

Presentation About How VCs Work

Floodgate Capital

👋 Other

💡 Inspiration

Secrets of Sand Hill Road

How to Raise Venture Capital

Workshops That Teaches Founders How to Effectively Raise an Institutional Venture Capital Round

Data on Global Venture Capital, Private Equity and Public Markets

Pitchbook

🛠 Tool

👏 Process & Strategy

How to Fundraise Like a Boss

Blog Post About Fundraising Like a BOSS!

Resources to Launch, Scale, and Lead with More Confidence and Effectiveness

Founder Library

🖥 Website

👷 Founders

Venture Education Center

How to Be an Angel Investor

Legals for Growing Your Company

Guide to Raising Money by Paul Graham

YC Demo Day for The Rest of Us

Stonks

🛠 Tool

👏 Process & Strategy

Raising Seed Capital?

How to Guide to Raising Capital

Parul Singh

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

A Ridiculously Detailed Fundraising Guide

A Step-By-Step System to Help Secure Venture Capital

Founder Collective

📰 Article

🍰 Captable

A Visual Introduction to VC Financing

Visual Introduction to VC Financing

Dan Lopuch

🛠 Tool

🍰 Captable

SAFE & Convertible Note Calculator

Tool to Calculate Your Convertible Notes

Carta

🛠 Tool

💡 Inspiration

Why Do Startups Get Funded

Case Study of 200 Startups That Raised Money

All VC Firms by Thesis - Radically Free and Open

Thoughts on Internet Startups, SaaS and Early-Stage Investments

Christoph Janz

📰 Article

💎 Pitch Deck

Pitch Deck Storytelling Template

How to Tell a Story with Your Pitch

Pillar.vc

📊 Template

👏 Process & Strategy

Investor Email Update Template

Useful Template for Updating Your Investors

Why Investor Updates are Really, Really Important

The Searchable Venture Capital Database

VC.Deals

🖥 Website

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Negotiating Term Sheets

Explanation What is Important in a Termsheet

Tool that Structures Your Fundraising Process

Foundersuite

🛠 Tool

📑 Legal & Term Sheet

Understanding Term Sheets

Detailed Explanation of Term Sheets

Holloway

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

If You're Thinking about Raising Money for Your Startup Read This

Collection of Investors Fundraising Interviews

ProductHunt

📰 Article

💡 Inspiration

The Struggle to Raise Money

The Struggle of Raising Money

Seth Godin

📰 Article

👏 Process & Strategy

The Anatomy of a Seed Round

An Inside Look into a 1M$ Seed Round

Brendan Baker

👋 Other

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