It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I built, and it determined there was a 97.7% chance that Plantee would raise money. This tool generally determines that only about 7.5% of all pitch [...]read morePitch Deck Teardown: Plantee Innovations’ $1.4M seed deck
In an era where data is king and its volume and complexity are exploding, Protecto aims to eliminate the long-standing dilemma businesses face between leveraging AI’s power while ensuring data privacy. As the adoption of generative AI tools like ChatGPT skyrockets, wayward data becomes easier to find, process and do naughty things with. Protecto’s APIs [...]read morePitch Deck Teardown: Protecto’s $4M seed deck
Don’t miss out on your chance to shine at “So You Think You Can Pitch,” our highly anticipated segment at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024, happening in Boston on April 25. Pitching is pivotal for securing funding and attracting early customers, yet getting honest feedback before facing investors can be rare. At TC Early Stage, three [...]read moreLast call for pitch submissions at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024!
CommandBar, a B2B tool designed to make software easier to use, closed a $4.8 million raise in 2021 with one of the most starkly minimalist decks I’ve ever seen. The deck only has seven slides and is missing a ton of really important information, but that didn’t stop Thrive Capital and Y Combinator from opening [...]read morePitch Deck Teardown: CommandBar’s $4.8M seed deck
Long ago Mobile World Congress, which we’ve been covering all week, absorbed a side event for startups, the idiosyncratically named “Four Years From Now”. The event is now well and truly inside the Borg Starship that is MWC, and every year runs a startup competition aimed at finding the ‘best startups’ around the globe. Thus, [...]read moreThe five finalists to emerge from the Four Years From Now 2024 pitch competition
Pitches are critical in the quest for funding and first customers. It’s rare, however, for innovators to get truly candid insight on their pitches before stepping in front of VCs. Here’s your chance for something different: We’re excited bring back “So You Think You Can Pitch” at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024, our annual founder summit [...]read moreApply to pitch at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 in Boston
It’s a rare startup that tears down its own pitch deck, but that’s exactly what Equals did after it raised a $16 million Series A round. Equals’ mission is not to replace the spreadsheet, but to ensure that a spreadsheet can do whatever its users throw at it. As an inveterate spreadsheet user, this is an [...]read morePitch Deck Teardown: Equals’ $16M Series A deck