Here’s a 21-point checklist for your VC pitch deck
Haje Jan Kamps
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I’ve broken down the wins and fails of more than 60 decks for TechCrunch+. But if we’re being honest, these pitch deck teardowns are a bit of a performance. It’s edu-tainment: Yes, you learn something about some of the things that work and don’t work about a deck, but you don’t learn everything.
As a consultant, I work with VC firms, accelerators and startups to build pitch stories for startups raising money, using an in-depth rubric to ensure that companies have crossed every T and dotted every I.
To every other pitch coach: You’re one TC+ subscription away from learning how I work. You’re welcome.
Here are the 22 things I check when I evaluate a pitch deck.
Note: It’s worth noting that each item on this list doesn’t necessarily mean a slide. Some parts of the story can be told as part of other slides or be inferred from context, but one way or another, I usually advise that these elements be present in …
