The pitch deck outlines an investor pitch for a startup. It introduces the founding team and their experience. It then discusses the problem the startup aims to solve, the size of the market opportunity, and the solution the startup has developed. The deck also covers the traction and user acquisition strategy, business model, competition, and financial needs. The overall goal is to convince the investor that the startup has a strong team, large market need, and solution that can generate revenues and competitive advantage.
3. Investor Pitch Deck
Our Team
What Does an Investor
CARE About?
contact@startup.com Phone: 305.555.5555
4. Investor Pitch Deck
Our Team
Rick Marini Neel Palrecha
Founder Founder
• Serial Entreprenuer • 10 years as a
• Founder/CEO - Developer
SuperFan • CTO/VP Engineering
• CFO/Strategist – - Peekok
Tickle • Sr Dir. Engineering –
($100mm exit) QuickPlay Media
• Sr Deployment Eng.
– MobiTV
5. Investor Pitch Deck
Our Team
Seth Elliott Founder
• Chief Strategy
Officer – EMT
• Vice President –
FastCall
• MBA – NYU Stern
6. Investor Pitch Deck
Our Team
Seth Elliott Founder
• 15 yrs as Founder, Executive or Board Member to Startups
• Chief Strategy Officer, EMT - Recruited by investors to serve as
‘Executive Officer delivering a mobile activation platform.
• Vice President Business Development, Fastcall – Refine go-to-
market strategy and develop alliances for 500 Startups backed
enterprise.
17. Investor Pitch Deck
Market Opportunity
• Size of Market in $ - $1BN + Ideal
• Consumer / User / Customer #’s
• Major Market Trends
• Instill multi-billion $ mindset
• Address T.A.M.
• Amount of $ you could generate if
you captured EVERY potential
customer
18. Investor Pitch Deck
Market Opportunity
• $10 billion spent annually on hair-on-
fire suppression products
• Target Customer – small business
that generates $100k - $40mm
annual sales
• 4,685,049 such customers exist –
average current spend is $30/month
• TAM = $1.6 Billion annually
20. Investor Pitch Deck
Solution
To address this need in the marketplace,
we we created this super awesome Mobile
App / Web Portal / Car+Submarine / Magic
Carpet / Matter Teleportation Device
29. Investor Pitch Deck
Solution
We Are Active
One great feature We are tagging this
is you can tag your video with “Cute
video and embed it Cats” and now we
on your blog are on
MyBlog.com and
embedding it and
BANG – finished
that simply.
34. Investor Pitch Deck
Traction
Tighten Your X
We formed the company in
October and now have 4,500
users.
vs.
We started evaluating the
space at the start of 2010. In
October, we quit our jobs to
build the product and we
launched a closed beta. We
opened the beta in June and
now have 4,500 users.
35. Investor Pitch Deck
Traction
Choose Your Axis
Conversions
3% average vs. 0.25%, 1%, 1.5%,
3%
Activations
Doubling vs. Doubling every
every Cycle
3 months
36. Investor Pitch Deck
Traction
Priority
1. Profitability
2. Revenues
3. Engaged Users
4. Registrations
5. Key Business Development Partnerships
6. Traffic
Press is NOT traction
Testimonials are NOT traction
37. Investor Pitch Deck
User Acquisition
Strategy (Distribution)
• Current User (Customer) Acquisition
Channels
• Scalability of Channels?
• Future Channel Plans
• Why?
• Scalability?
• Data is King – Measured is Managed
38. Investor Pitch Deck
User Acquisition
Strategy (Distribution)
Focus on Customer Acquisition Costs
+ =
$5.99 $10.99 $16.98 / per user
(not really, but you get the point)
39. Investor Pitch Deck
User Acquisition
Strategy (Distribution)
Viral Adoption
Viral
≠
Word of Mouth
40. Investor Pitch Deck
User Acquisition
Strategy (Distribution)
Viral Coefficient
K = i * conversion %
K > 1= Viral
42. Investor Pitch Deck
Business Model
Transactional vs. Recurring?
Asset Sales Subscription
Usage Fees Brokerage
Lending/Rentin Advertising
g
Licensing
43. Investor Pitch Deck
Business Model
Pricing Mechanisms
Fixed Menu Pricing Dynamic Pricing
List Price Fixed Prices for individual Negotiation Price is determined by
offerings direct bargaining
Product/Fe Price depends on number Yield Price depends on
ature or quality of features / Manageme inventory and time of
benefits nt purchase
Customer Price depends on the Real-Time Price is established
Segment specific characteristics of Market dynamically based on
a Customer Segment supply & demand
Volume Price is a function of Auctions Price is determined by
quantity purchased competitive bidding
45. Investor Pitch Deck
Competition
The Check Chart
STARTUP COMP1 COMP2 COMP3 COMP4
User Ratings Y Y Y N Y
Mobile App Y N Y N N
Profile Y N N N Y
Matching
Social Y Y N Y N
Sharing
51. Investor Pitch Deck
What Has Potential Investor
• Learned?
You Have a Killer Team
• That Has Identified a Pain (or Desire) Point
• In a VERY Large Market
• And Have Developed a Fantastic Solution
• That Is Already Gaining Substantive
Traction
• With an Exciting & Sustainable Distribution
Plan
• Which Will Generate Significant Revenues
• Is Superior to the Competition
• And Already Has Interested Funders