Sathyvelu Kunashegaran

Real Pitch Decks From 40+ Top Startups - A collection of startup pitch decks that raised $1.4 Billion

If you need to raise money for your startup, your first step will be to create a pitch deck. If you’ve never done it before and you’re a first-time entrepreneur, it can be incredibly daunting. It was for me, at least. Hence, here's a long list of decks that I often look at if I'm lacking in idea or direction. Now, you can too!

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Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
Hey everyone! Creating a pitch deck is not an easy task. If you’ve never done it before and you’re a first-time entrepreneur, it can be incredibly daunting. It was for me, at least. Hence, repo of decks that I often look at if I'm lacking in idea or direction. Generally, they are found in news site (leaks), on reddit, slide share, etc. As I started collecting them in my gdrive, people I met at networking events and my peers in Startups started asking me access to it. I quickly realised that it could be a beneficial tool for every entrepreneur who is fundraising or making their own pitch deck. Hence, I created a page with all of them indexed. Most of the currently available lists like this are not properly indexed and they don't update often (as they are blogposts and often forgotten after). Currently, I have 40 decks compiled which have collectively raised about $700 million. I plan to add 3 to 5 every week as I find more decks available publicly. If you want to opensource or share your deck as well, do email it to me at sk@dconstrct.com and I will be more than happy to add it =) Oh and don't forget to share with those friends that have been asking you help with their pitch decks too ✌🏼! Do let me know if you have any feedback!
Aleksandra Legosteva
@dconstrct @sathyvelu_kunashegaran forgive my ignorance, but do you by chance have any blog entry or support article about how it works etc?
Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
@dconstrct @alek_lechick Hey there! What do you mean by how it works? The page itself or the decks?
Tom Flemming
It would be great to see an option to sort/filter them, for example by Angel, Seed, Series A, Series B, &c.
Bryan Landers
Heads up, @sathyvelu_kunashegaran - the Square deck you have listed on there is an unofficial, unsolicited one from a few UC Berkeley students. Not a real deck. I wrote a post about discovering this showing verification from one of the student creators: https://medium.com/@bryanlanders... Check your sources to make sure you're not propagating fake decks. 😉
Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
@bryanlanders thanks for finding about it! will update =)
Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
@bryanlanders Hey mate - fixed it and added more decks =)
Bryan Landers
@sathyvelu_kunashegaran 👏 Nice work. Excited to see the collection grow!
Zach Grosser
@sathyvelu_kunashegaran @bryanlanders The Square deck is available on square.com/investors (scroll down a ways). Here's the link for it too: https://d1g145x70srn7h.cloudfron...
Bryan Landers
@sathyvelu_kunashegaran @zachgrosser That's cool, Zach! Thanks for sharing.
Charlie Gedeon

It's always great to gather inspiration but a lot of the times, people get obsessed with copying something that worked for a successfuly person or company without grasping the context of the time and purpose it was made for.

Just because Foursquare raised $BlahBlah Million with a deck, doesn't mean that this is a $BlahBlah Million raising deck.

Ask yourself: Who was in the room? How groundbreaking was the presentation FOR IT'S TIME? (E.g. No one can ever do "Just one more thing" again)

Context is everything, and this site is good for inspiration, but it doesn't highlight the context nearly enough to make it a reference for the uneducated.

Pros:

Great ideas for inspiration

Cons:

Can trick people into copying things that don't work for them

Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
Hey mate, thanks for the review. I am making the second version of this resource. Care to get on skype/call/gchat, so that I can get deeper into your review?
Domainoji
It's like Reddit except only investors can upvote your post to the frontpage.
Katie Griffing
Nice to see so many Latin American companies here. Many are featured in this post 'The Pitch Decks of 15 Latin American Startups Who Raised Over $1 Million': https://www.launchwaymedia.com/b...
Naotake Murayama
Would love to see a collection focused on first time fundraising pitches.
Julien Lehuraux
Nice collection, good job! Would love a filter option too.
Vaclav Bedrich
Amazing work! Just noticed one thing – Crew wasn't acquired by Dribbble this year, it's the exact opposite. Crew acquired majority in Dribbble.
Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
@vaclav_bedrich Thanks for the tip! Fixed and added more decks. It's now worth a total of $1.4billion!
Prashanth Iyer
Isn't this same as https://attach.io/startup-pitch-.... This was also shared in PH
Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
@prashanth_iyer Hey mate - most of the currently available tools are not being updated with some made in 2016 and even 2015. The goal here is to keep the decks growing and include more as they surface.
Thomas Leitermann
@prashanth_iyer @sathyvelu_kunashegaran was about to share that as well... Maybe you can cooperate? I also like that they had some quotes from the CEOs next to it to add perspective...
Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
@prashanth_iyer @thomasleiterman Yeap - as you guys can see here, I just updated and added more decks that will bring the total collective value to 1.4Billion.
Sathyvelu Kunashegaran
@prashanth_iyer @thomasleiterman Wouldn't mind doing it, but it will make the site look too cluttered as now its designed to perform one task - to show decks.
James Lau
Fantastic resource you've created Sathyvelu! Are there plans to make documents/templates easily downloadable and customisable? I wonder if that could be a way to monetise?
Chad Gilhoi
Great resource and entertaining reading....thanks!
Product Pearson
This is super interesting
Michelle Grant
Thank you! It is so interesting and useful idea, that helped my team to make a great pitch deck!
Wa'il Ashshowwaf
Thanks for putting this together
Abel Cuskelly
nice work
mastef
Nice! Maybe embed them and add a way to add (anon for starters) comments? Also breakdowns would be interesting - e.g. how they differ from the "standard" suggested format
joe borza
Swweeet!
Lisa Dziuba
helped us with making our deck today :) Thanks!