Square Background Square is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology. Square builds tools to empower businesses and individuals to participate in the economy.  Sellers use Square to reach buyers online and in-person, manage their bus…

BuzzFeed Background : BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.  BuzzFeed’s 2008 pitch deck cited 2.5M page views per month.  In March 2020, the website claimed more than 1.2B unique page views across its websites for the month and saw a 41% year-over-year (YoY…

Digital health company Oscar offers health insurance to consumers via its online platform. This early pitch deck shared by the company in 2014 highlights its focus on customer experience.  In March 2021, Oscar went public at a $7.9B valuation. While the company reported an $87.4M loss in Q1’21, its revenue mor…

Dropbox Background Founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox  is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Moreover, the company has more than 12 offices around the world, with locations in San Francisco, Austin, Dublin, Herzliya, London, New York, Paris, Seattle, Sydney, …

Founded in 2013, the company helps customers analyze product experiences (e.g., user behavior and feedback) and focuses on B2B web-based businesses.  North Carolina-based cloud software provider Pendo last raised $100M in its Series E in October 2019.  This pitch deck saw Pendo through a $15M Series B …

This is Coinbase’s seed round pitch deck from 2012. The company raised $600K from angel investors and FundersClub, and it has gone on to raise an additional $538M.  The short, 12-slide deck highlights the rising popularity of digital currency bitcoin.  Coinbase went public via direct listing in April 2021 at a $65.3B valuation, a mo…

Bright.md  Background Bright.md provides an AI-powered platform designed to modernize direct-to-patient telehealth systems.  Bright.md designs and develops healthcare software. The Company offers non-video online telehealth solutions that allows patients to access from …

LinkedIn Background LinkedIn was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. LinkedIn has raised a total of $154.8M in funding over 8 rou…

This deck from MySQL’s 2003 Series B comes to us courtesy of MySQL’s former CEO. Weighing in at a whopping 186 slides, it  is  relentlessly detailed and spends 10 slides on the market opportunity alone. Open-source database MySQL raised $38M before being acquired in 2008 by computer maker Sun Microsystems, which was later snapped up…

Curnchbase Background : Crunchbase is one the best platforms for researching startups. The website lists information like funding rounds data, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), leadership positions and much more The pitch deck below is part of Crunchbase's Series C funding round, and  helped secure around $30 milli…

Corporate card startup Brex has raised $1.2B to date. Its 2018 pitch deck, which cites CB Insights data on startups’ monthly spends, helped the company raise its Series C — which vaulted it into the unicorn club.  Brex’s latest valuation puts it at  $7.4B .  Although t he company had to lay off 62 employees amid the pandemic, it rai…

Uber Background : U ber’s co-founder Garrett Camp shared the company’s first pitch deck from 2008. Back then, the ride-hailing startup estimated the total addressable market for cabs was “$4.2B annually and growing.” Uber now has a market cap of approximately $ 95B . About the Uber Pitch Deck Raised: $…

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…

Yammer Background Yammer is an enterprise social network established to foster team collaboration, empower employees, and drive business transformation. It enables employees to collaborate in real time across departments, geographies, and business applications. It also helps them create groups to collaborate on projects an…

Mint has raised a total of $31.8M in funding over 5 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Aug 12, 2009 from a Series C round.   Mint , a personal financial services tool, has a simple pitch deck but the investors were drawn to it.  First of all, it presented what value it can give to their users and partne…

Video summary of the article: In YouTube’s initial pitch deck (page 30 in the document below), the online video platform counted under 10,000 users and 100,000 video views per day but reported rapid growth. YouTube now boasts  2B+  monthly  users and 1B+ hours of video  watched every day. The de…

Wise, formerly known as TransferWise, launched in 2011 as a “peer-to-peer currency exchange.”  The company’s 2011 deck outlines its plans to offer consumers a cheaper alternative to international bank transfers and its traction at the time — 20% monthly growth in paying users, driven by word of mouth. Wise has r…

WeWork Background WeWork was founded in 2010 and is  headquartered in New York. WeWork is a platform for creators that transforms buildings into dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and collaboration. The company transforms buildings into beautiful, collaborative wor…

Dating app Tinder was founded in 2012 as Match Box, and it has kept many of the original features it envisioned in its pitch deck: hyper-location, mutual liking, and common friends and interests.  However, this deck reveals that its setup was slightly different back in the day — it states that users would have 2 f…

London-based challenger bank Revolut offers a mobile-first bank alternative. In its pitch deck, the fintech company says it gained 4,800 pre-product subscribers within a month and asks for £1.5M ($1.9M). Now, it boasts more than  15M  personal customers and 500,000 business customers, and it has garnered $91…