Circa Raises $2 Million to Allow Flexible Rent Payments Circa Co-founder and CEO Leslie Hyman, identified several pain points when it comes to paying rent in the US. Over $15 billion in rent is paid late every month. 30% of rent payments are paid after the 5th of the month 15% or 5.9 million renters are behind in rent payments Evict…

Backbone Raises $14 Million in Seed Funding to Fix Supply Chain In 2015, a survey   of large companies (revenue with more than $1 Billion),  conducted well before the pandemic began; supply chain volatility was pegged as the top challenge that they faced. Backbone, founders Vic Patil and Rajesh Chandran believe that the solution lay…

TikTok and Zillow Combined In-One-App Wants to Help New Home Buyers Buy Homes Guest Author: Sana Ahmad (Click here for Real Estate Listings) I recently wrote a guest post about a platform that allows homeowners to "exchange" their real estate for shares. Today, I'll share about a new app that I have come across, which…

Yuga Labs Pitch Deck Used to Raise $450 Million in Seed Funding Yuga Labs  Background Yuga Labs (YL) is riding the wave of Non Fungible Token (NFT) market. Yuga Lab is the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club (aka BAYC), which is a collection of more than ten thousand Bored Ape NFT's. Yuga Labs founded by Wylie Aro…

Colabs Nabs $3 Million in Seed Funding to Launch Back-office SaaS Solution In 2019, Omar Shah and Ali Shah (twin brothers), saw an opportunity to address the flexible workspace needs of Pakistan based startup ecosystem, that is currently on fire . Omar with extensive background in private equity and Ali at the helm of the family&#…

Driverless Delivery Startup Whale Dynamic Targets US Market with Seed Funding Whale Dynamic is a Shenzhen-based autonomous delivery startup, founded by Baidu veteran David Chang in 2018. Whale Dynamic is developing driverless delivery vans that are meant to do be fully autonomous, similar to Nuro.  Whale Dynamic's main competit…

$5.7 Million in Seed Funding to Make Honey Without the Bees “We want to change the food industry in a way that we make food sustainable, nutritious and deliver it at no cost to our dearest animals, in our case, the bees,”, Darko Mandich, co-founder of MeliBio stated to be the vision for MeliBio . Mandich, a former bee-honey industry…

Topsort Raises $8 Million in Seed Funding For Auction Based Advertising Regina Ye, founder of Topsort , was a Shopify seller in college and found two problems with then advertising solutions: Complex structure of monetizing those channels and lack of direct promotional tools made available by the retail channels.  Ye, Michael Ostr…

Zeta Surgical Announces $5.2 Million Seed Funding For Image Guided Surgery Zeta Surgical is founded in 2017 , by Harvard graduates Jose Maria Amich and Raahil Sha; serving as CEO and CTO, respectively. The team’s mission is to deliver precise surgical imaging guidance for non-invasive surgeries, performed outside the operating roo…

Cega Raises $4.3 Million seed round to Build DeFi derivatives According to data from Dune Analytics, approximately 4 million-plus people worldwide have invested in DeFi products and DeFi ecosystem is worth over $200 billion  (at the writing of this). DeFi market is evolving rapidly, mimicking complex financial products, similar to …

Beem, a startup that enables users to communicate with others live or on-demand in augmented reality (AR), has raised $ 4 million in seed funding.  The round was backed by 5 Lion Ventures, which has previously invested in the likes of health tech app Heal, as well as Ascension Ventures, Groupo…

Chartmetric Background : Chartmetric provides robust data, powerful visualizations, in-depth insights, unique tools, and rockstar customer service to help the music industry make smarter and faster choices. The platform compiles data on music consumption (including data from streaming and social media) in an…

Bolt Background : Bolt is an innovative payment processing company that offers an integrated checkout experience that enables retailers to convert and retain more consumers One-click checkout Bolt used this 12-page deck to describe raise $393M in Series D funding for expanding its network of 5.6 mill…

Peloton Background : Peloton Interactive, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Peloton provides interactive fitness products in North America and internationally Peloton combines real-time and on-demand studio classes taught by elite instructors into a network of…

Buffer Background : Buffer is  Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands.  It allows users to schedule your content on Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, and LinkedIn..etc.  What makes this pitch deck popular is the presentation of solid facts and numbers. It also includes the milestones…