Check out the following 31 pitch decks from successful startups. These companies were able to convince investors that they are doing something worth investing in. Learn from their story and make sure people understand your startup's vision.
SaaS Pitch Decks
1. Shopify
Shopify is a cloud-based e-commerce platform for small to medium companies that want to set up an online store quickly.Shopify raised over $122.3M in funding from 2007 to 2013. The pitch deck you are looking at was never part of a fundraising process but gave great insights about how a large company designs its pitch deck.In 2015 Shopify went public (IPO) and since then continued its impressive rate of growth.
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Amount Raised: N/A
Year: 2016
Stage: Later Stage
Website : https://www.shopify.com‍
2. Dropbox
Dropbox is a cloud-based file sharing- and storing solution found by Arash Ferdowsi and Drew Houston in 2007.The amount Dropbox raised with this pitch deck is still unknown, but of high value for every entrepreneur who wants to build a great slide deck.So far, Dropbox has raised a total of $1.7B in funding by collecting money from famous investors like JP Morgan, Index Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.
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Amount Raised: N/A
Year: 2007
Stage: Pre-Seed
Website : https://dropbox.com
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3. Wunderlist
Pendo gives you insights into your customers' product journey, collects customer feedback via surveys, and helps your customers with in-app walkthroughs to understand your product faster.In December 2016, Pendo raised $20M Series-B funding with Spark Capital as the lead investor.Todd Olson, one of the founders and the CEO of Pendo, recently said, "I've always been a big fan of Simon Sinek and his concept of the "Golden Circle." For those of you who don't know, the Golden Circle refers to three concentric circles labeled "Why," "How," and "What," appearing in that order from the inside out." - Taking a closer look at Pendos' pitch deck, you will recognize this concept, which helps investors understand your company and product faster.Upto this point, Pendo has raised more than $200M in funding over 8 rounds.
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Amount Raised: $19M
Year: 2013
Stage: Series-B
Website : https://wunderlist.com‍
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4. Pendo
Pendo gives you insights into your customers' product journey, collects customer feedback via surveys, and helps your customers with in-app walkthroughs to understand your product faster.In December 2016, Pendo raised $20M Series-B funding with Spark Capital as the lead investor.Todd Olson, one of the founders and the CEO of Pendo, recently said, "I've always been a big fan of Simon Sinek and his concept of the "Golden Circle." For those of you who don't know, the Golden Circle refers to three concentric circles labeled "Why," "How," and "What," appearing in that order from the inside out." - Taking a closer look at Pendos' pitch deck, you will recognize this concept, which helps investors understand your company and product faster.Upto this point, Pendo has raised more than $200M in funding over 8 rounds.
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Amount Raised: $20M
Year: 2016
Stage: Series-B
Website : https://www.pendo.io/‍
5. Front
Front is a cloud-based collaboration tool for small to midsize businesses. The company consolidates communication channels such as email accounts, Facebook, and Twitter, and helps users automate communication workflows.Users can also set up rules for automatic actions when messages meet certain conditions.The company announced in 2018 that it had raised $66 million from series B funding.
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Amount Raised: $10M
Year: 2016
Stage: Series-A
Website : https://frontapp.com/‍
6. Buffer
Buffer is a social media management software for companies who want to grow their brands on social media.In 2011 Buffer raised $500K with the help of this pitch deck.2 more funding rounds later, Buffer has raised a total of $3.9M in funding up to this day.
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Amount Raised: $500k
Year: 2011
Stage: Seed
Website : https://buffer.com/‍
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7. Intercom
Intercom connects companies with customers using scalable messaging for sales, marketing, and support.In 2011 Intercom raised $600K in funding with the help of this pitch deck. The lead investor of this funding round remains unknown.It took Intercom six more funding rounds to raise a total of $240.8M in fundings.
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Amount Raised: $600k
Year: 2011
Stage: Seed
Website : https://www.intercom.com/‍
8. SmartHost
Smart Host ist die Hotelmarketing Lösung für eine intelligente & automatisierte Kommunikation.
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- E-Mail Kampagnen zur Steigerung der Direktbuchungen
- Angebotsmanagement für höhere Annahmequoten
- Ăśber 300 Hotels vertrauen schon auf uns
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Amount Raised: $100k
Stage: Pre-Seed
Website : https://www.smart-host.com/‍
9. Moz
Moz provides companies with inbound marketing analytics software and SEO tools for link building as well as content marketing.In 2012 Moz raised about $18M in funding with this pitch deck. The lead investor back then was Ignition Partners.Today, Moz has a post-money valuation ranging from $100M to $500M (June 2016).
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Amount Raised: $18M
Year: 2012
Stage: Series-B
Website : https://moz.com/‍
10. Mixpanel
Mixpanel is a leading product analytics software company, currently helping the world answer 81 million product questions every year. Our pioneering event-based tracking solution gives product teams the ability to gain insights into how to best acquire, convert, and retain their users across web and mobile platforms.
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Amount Raised: $65M
Year: 2014
Stage: Series-B
Website : https://mixpanel.com/‍
11. AppVirality
AppVirality is a referral marketing software designed for accelerated grwoth.In 2014 AppVirality raised an unknown amount of funds with this pitch deck.Accumulated, AppVirality has raised a total of $1.5M in fundings over 4 rounds.
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Year: 2014
Website : https://www.appvirality.com/‍
12. Heyday
Since day one, Heyday’s focus has been helping retailers humanize ecommerce through conversational AI. As our technology grew more sophisticated and consumers looked to chat more frequently as a way to interact with the brands they love – Heyday’s product evolved. We’re proud to say that since we set out on this adventure three years ago, we’ve enabled millions of conversations with hundreds of retail brands across four continents.
It goes without saying that 2020 brought on a whole new world of challenges for retailers. COVID-19 crystallized our vision to help retailers sell and service from a distance by recreating the in-store experience. To get there, we launched the first self-serve version of Heyday to all Shopify merchants in July this year, giving the Fortune 500,000 access to AI and automation typically reserved for the Fortune 500.
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Amount Raised: $2M
Year: 2019
Stage: Seed
Website : https://www.heyday.ai/‍
13. Contently
Contently provides its customers with content marketing solutions such as: expert content strategy, an enterprise content marketing platform, and a global content creator network.In 2014 Contently raised $9M in funding with this pitch deck. One of the lead investors in this round was Jackson Square Ventures.Until today, Contently raised a total of $19.3M in funding over 7 rounds.
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Amount Raised: $9M
Year: 2014
Stage: Series-B
Website : https://contently.com/‍
14. Vidlet
Vidlet offers a powerful digital platform and expert professional services for conducting remote qualitative & hybrid research, around the globe, using smartphone video.With the help of this pitch deck Vidlet has raised abour $1.2M in fundings.
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Amount Raised: $1.2M
Stage: Seed
Website : https://www.vidlet.com/‍
15. Launchrock
LaunchRock is an online platform that helps companies cover all their launching need with aoo deals, video production and more.In 2011 Launchrock raised $800K in funding with this pitch deck. A total of 8 investors were involved in this seed round.
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Amount Raised: $800K
Year: 2011
Website : https://www.launchrock.com/‍
16. SmartRecruiters
Smartrecruiter helps businesses to find and hire great talent. It is one of the fastest-growing recruiting companies worldwide.In 2019 Smartrecruiter raised $50M in fundings with this pitch deck. Lead investor was Insight Partners.This round was the latest of five rounds smartrecruiter was able to raise $105M in total with.
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Amount Raised: $50M
Year: 2019
Stage: Later Stage
Website : https://www.smartrecruiters.com/de/home/‍
17. DocSend
DocSend helps business to securely share documents with real-time control and insights.In 2013 DocSend raised about $1.7M in fundings from four investors with the help of this pitch deck. The Seed round was led by Uncork Capital.DocSend was able to raise a total of $15.3M in funding over four rounds.
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Amount Raised: $1.7M
Year: 2013
Stage: Seed
Website : https://www.docsend.com/‍
17. Front (Series-B)
Front is a shared inbox for teams who want to be more productive, collaborative and workflow efficient.In 2018 Front raised $66M in fundings with this pitch deck.So far, Front has raised over $138M in funding. On January 22nd Front raised $59M in a Series C round.
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Amount Raised: $66
Year: 2018
Stage: Series-B
Website : https://frontapp.com/‍
18. Yalochat
Yalochat is an artificial intelligence-based Customer Relationship Management Firm (CRM) specializing in emerging markets.The platform enables companies to interact with their customers in conversational commerce on messaging apps, including Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and WeChat.The company received $8 million in series A funding from Sierra Ventures in 2019.
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Amount Raised: $8M
Year: 2018
Stage: Seed
Website : https://www.yalochat.com/‍
19. Resgrid
Resgrid is a response reporting system for first responders, business and industry.In 2013 Resgrid raised with this pitch deck an unknown amount of fundings.This is the only investment round Resgrid did.
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Amount Raised: N/A
Year: 2013
Stage: Seed
Website : https://resgrid.com/‍
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20. Cloudera
Cloudera is a manufacturer of software in the Apache Hadoop environment.This pitch deck was part of Cloudera's Series-A round, in which $5M was raised in fundings.12 round later Cloudera has raised a total of $1B in funding.
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Amount Raised: $5M
Year: 2008
Stage: Series-A
Website : https://cloudera.com/‍
21. AdPushUp
AdPushup is a platform that helps companies increase their websites ad revenue.In 2014 AdPushup raised about $630k with the help of this pitch deck. The lead investor of this round remains unknown.There were two more funding rounds, but there is no information on the amounts raised.
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Amount Raised: $632k
Year: 2014
Stage: Pre-Seed
Website : https://www.adpushup.com/‍
22. SendGrid
SendGrid is a cloud-based customer communication platform that is a leader in email deliverability.In 2009 SendGrid raised with this pitch deck $750K in Seed funding.8 funding rounds later SendGrid has raised a total of $80.4M in fundings from investors like Bain Capital Ventures and the Foundry Group.
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Amount Raised: $750k
Year: 2009
Stage: Seed
Website : https://sendgrid.com‍
23. MapMe
Mapme is a map builder to create custom interactive map with ease.In their seed round Mapme was able to raise $1M in funding with this pitch deck.This is the only funding round of Mapme.
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Amount Raised: $1M
24. Front (Series C)
We’re on a mission to make work happier by enabling better relationships at scale
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Amount Raised: $59M
Year: 2020
Stage: Later Stage
Website : https://frontapp.com/
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25. Predictive Index
The Predictive Index uses the power of talent optimization to design great teams and lead them through anything.This Series-A pitch deck helped The Predictive Index to raise $50M.The Predictive Index raised a total of $65M in two investment rounds.
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Amount Raised: $50M
Stage: Series-A
Website : https://www.predictiveindex.com/‍
26. Lola
Lola is a Software as a Service (Saas) company best known for developing corporate travel management and expense software for web browsers, the App Store, and Google Play.In April 2016, Lola completed a $20 million series A funding round. This Round was followed by a Series B funding round in December of that same year, resulting in more than $44 million in total funding.In March 2019, the company raised $37 million in a Series C funding round using this pitch deck.
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Amount Raised: $37M
Year: 2019
Stage: Later Stage
Website : https://www.lola.com/‍
27. Lunch Club
Lunchclub is an AI super-connector backed by a16z that makes introductions for 1:1 lunch and coffee meetings.In other words, it is a startup that’s looking to help users navigate finding new connections inside specific industries. The company raised $4 million in a Series A seed round in 2019.
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Amount Raised: $4M
Year: 2019
Stage: Series-A
Website : https://lunchclub.ai/‍
28. Capdesk
Capdesk is an equity management platform helping companies manage cap tables, shareholder registers, and employee shares. It accelerates its customer's company growth by eliminating admin time to focus on core business tasks. Capdesk streamlines the equity management by automatically updating cap tables, statutory registers, and various modelings. Digital, end-to-end share issuance transfers, splits, consolidations, and cancellations can be performed seamlessly on the platform. With the equity information stored on the platform, clients can align stakeholders by giving them easy access to ownership information, share certificates, option vesting schedules, investment amounts, and latest values.
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Stage: Series-A
Website : https://www.capdesk.com/‍
29. GraphCMS
GraphCMS is the enterprise-class content management platform that enables ambitious digital products at scale. With the industry's most versatile GraphQL content APIs and a novel approach in external data sourcing, the content platform enables ambitious use cases. Enterprise customers see GraphCMS as a database highly optimized for structured content while giving content creators the tools to build their ultimate content pipeline. GraphCMS is developed by GraphCMS GmbH, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and is currently enabling nearly 50,000 teams across the world to rapidly build and deliver tomorrow’s omnichannel digital experiences at scale.
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Stage: Series-A
Website : https://graphcms.com/‍
30. Notion
Notion is for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. The app blends everyday work apps into one. It serves as an all-in-one workspace for note-taking, task management, and project management. The app can be accessed via most web browsers.
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Stage: Series-C
Website : https://www.notion.so/‍
31. Superlist
A productivity tool of the future: for teams and individuals alike.
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Stage: Seed
Website : https://superlist.com‍
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