This is when they were still called “UberCab.” And it’s very early in the life of the company, so the product and market are focused. You won’t find data about the company’s performance, since it’s so early.
Dropbox changed how the world stores and shares files, and its pitch deck validates this point. The Dropbox pitch deck encourages engagement from the viewer by presenting questions like “Why Now?” and “Why Better?” The team identified which questions the audience was likely to ask. Then, the founders used the deck to take the viewer on a journey by answering their questions at the ideal moment.
In 2012, Peloton launched as an innovator in the fitness hardware and technology spaces. The company combined traditional fitness equipment with modern tech solutions. Its solution includes internet-connected stationary bikes that enable subscribers to participate in at-home classes through streaming media.
Airbnb named Couchsurfing, Craigslist, Hostels.com, and Hotels.com as competitors. Its valuation catapulted to $86.5B by the end of its first day of trading in December 2020. Way before convincing people to sleep in stranger’s homes and becoming a $100 billion company, it was just an idea to make some extra money and pay the rent. It took the founders of Airbnb, and their first guests, to realize that their idea was much larger than expected. There were a lot of hurdles at first, but they were able to get through these, and become a dominant player in the market with its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in December 2020.
Coinbase is an american based crypto currency trading and exchange platform.
In 2012, when only a small number of people knew about cryptocurrency, coinbase was able to successfully raise $600K in funding.The company is named after coinbase transactions, which are special transactions that introduce cryptocurrency into circulation in proof of work cryptocurrencies.In October 2012, the company launched the services to buy and sell bitcoins through bank transfers. In May 2013, the company received a US$5 million Series A investment led by Fred Wilson from the Venture capital firm Union Square Ventures. In December, the company received a US$25 million investment from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures (USV), and Ribbit Capital. After 9 rounds, Coinbase has almost raised $550M in funding. The company is valued between $1B to $10B.
MySQL Cluster enables users to meet the database challenges of next generation web, cloud, and communications services with uncompromising scalability. In 2013 MySQL was able to raise $19.3M in funding with this pitch deck. Benchmark was the lead investor in this round. In total, MySQL has raised $39.8M in funding over 3 rounds. Open-source database MySQL raised $38M before being acquired in 2008 by computer maker Sun Microsystems, which was later snapped up by Oracle for $7.4B. 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.
WeWork is an expert in building and designing shared workspaces for entrepreneurs and companies. It is unbelievable, but WeWork raised a stunning amount of $335M in funding with this pitch deck. Up to this date, WeWork has raised more than $19.5B in funding, with Goldman Sachs and Softbank as recent lead investors. By providing big-name services to their members through an affiliate scheme, they were able to add the logos of all these companies in their company deck and show who they were already working with. Not only did they get tons of funding with this pitch deck, they’re now one of the biggest coworking space providers in the world. They knew the potential of WeWork and were definitely not afraid to show it.
LinkedIn even goes a step further and shows the relations between the current most-used mediums for certain services and their older counterparts (e.g. using a bank in the past versus using PayPal in the present).Their pitch deck is filled with straightforward facts and data that logically define the site’s worth, rather than more artistic and stylized elements. This allows them to prove their point—that the internet has become the most-used base for services previously offered offline—and show their particular niche, again endearing themselves to their audience. LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps. It was launched on May 5, 2003. Since December 2016, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft.
Tinder isn’t a traditional startup since the majority of it is owned by IAC. But like many young companies, it began as a fledgling idea under another name, Match Box. Tinder did not take out ads on Facebook and they did not use the mass email lists of college students that people offered them. They understood that there is a huge difference between someone who downloads the app because they found it on an ad and then never uses it again, versus someone who downloaded the app because their friend had a great experience on it and told them about it. This helped them get the “right” people using Tinder. This was a big one for Tinder, especially because Tinder only works when enough people in the same area use it. Instead of simply mass marketing Tinder to everyone with access to the Internet, they instead focused on targeting smaller, tight knit societies and launched with the goal of reaching a critical mass within that society.
Square is a financial services platform by Block, Inc. It enables small and medium-sized businesses to accept credit card payments using smartphones or tablets as point-of-sale system registers. It also facilitates various operations for physical and online sellersLike most Disruptor 50 companies, Square’s growth was fueled by venture capital dollars. Its first official round of funding in 2009 was led by Khosla Ventures at a roughly $45 million valuation, according to Pitchbook. Early investors in that $10 million round included Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and Napster’s Shawn Fanning. Later funding brought in the venture capital arms of Visa, Citi, Starbucks, Goldman Sachs, as well as Silicon Valley giants Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.
Social proof! It doesn’t hurt to promote the management team if they’ve been with Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, PayPal, and more. It shows that your management team’s experience is an armor to the company. This detailed startup pitch deck outlines Square’s business model and a simple financial model that portrays its annual revenue and five-year growth rate.
