Pitch Deck Examples

The legendary 2009 pitch deck that helped Airbnb raise $600K from Sequoia Capital. Known for its simplicity and clarity in explaining the short-term rental market opportunity.

The pitch deck Buffer used to raise $500K from 18 investors. Famously transparent deck that focused heavily on traction - 55,000 users and $150K ARR at the time.

The pitch deck Melanie Perkins iterated on 100+ times before raising $3M seed. Highlights the $138B design tools market opportunity with extreme simplicity.

Brian Armstrong's Y Combinator Demo Day deck from 2012. Raised $600K seed round with slides comparing Coinbase to iTunes for music - positioning it as the gateway to Bitcoin.

Tony Xu's Y Combinator Demo Day pitch from 2013. Started as PaloAltoDelivery.com showing 31% week-over-week growth. Compared themselves to "FedEx of today."

The Y Combinator Demo Day deck that helped Dropbox raise $1.2M seed funding in 2007. Featured a freemium business model and viral acquisition strategy that was revolutionary for its time.

The 2004 media kit/pitch deck hybrid Eduardo Saverin used to pitch advertisers and investors. Secured $500K seed funding from Peter Thiel for 10.2% of the company.

The pre-seed pitch deck Dylan Field used to raise $3.8M in 2013 - before building the actual product. Focused on demos of web-based graphics tools and the vision for collaborative design.

Apoorva Mehta delivered beer to a YC partner to get a meeting after missing the deadline. The pitch compared Instacart to Uber for groceries. Raised $2.3M.

The original 8-slide pitch deck from late 2011 that raised $600K on a convertible note. Notably simple with minimal images - just the vision for SaaS customer messaging.

Reid Hoffman's Series B pitch deck to Greylock Partners in 2004. Positioned LinkedIn as "professional people search 2.0" and compared to Google to help investors understand value.

The $12K Y Combinator grant that launched Reddit. Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pivoted from a mobile food ordering app to "the front page of the web" after Paul Graham suggested it.

The pitch that got 75+ rejections before Tim Draper and a16z invested $3M. Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt pitched commission-free trading for millennials.

Tobi Lütke's pitch to transform e-commerce. Started as Snowdevil snowboard store, pivoted to building the platform itself. Raised $7M Series A.

Stewart Butterfield's pitch after pivoting from the game Glitch. Showed 5-10% weekly growth after public release in February 2014.

The 2008 pitch deck that helped Spotify raise $21.6M in early funding. Originally created to recruit developers, featuring early UI designs by Daniel Ek himself.

The 2011 Series C pitch deck featuring Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Keith Rabois (PayPal) as the management team. Opened with the stat that 42% of US businesses couldn't accept credit cards.

The 2010 seed pitch deck Patrick and John Collison used to raise $2M. Famous for showing how "seven lines of code" could replace weeks of PCI compliance work.

The original UberCab pitch deck from 2008-2009 that raised $200K in seed funding. Positioned as a luxury alternative to taxis with the vision of on-demand transportation.

The 10-slide pitch deck that helped YouTube raise $3.5M Series A from Sequoia in 2005. Simple, text-heavy deck that clearly articulated the video sharing problem.