Pre-seed · 10 slides
First-cheque deck
For when you have a deck of clarity but no metrics yet. Maximises team + insight + market, minimises everything you can't prove.
Used to raise $2M+ at the pre-seed stage
Resources · Templates
Pitch deck templates for every stage.
Battle-tested by founders who closed real rounds. Pick a stage, adapt the slide order to your sector, fill in your numbers.
Templates by stage
Four decks for four checkpoints.
Seed · 12 slides
Seed deck
Earliest traction is here — first 10 customers, early ARR, design partners. The 'why now' slide does the heaviest lifting.
Median round size $3.5M
Series A · 16 slides
Series A deck
Repeatable acquisition + unit economics + team scaling. The deck shifts from 'why this could work' to 'why this is working.'
Median round size $12M
Series B · 18 slides
Growth deck
Quarterly cohorts, NDR, payback period, channel mix. Heavy on financial detail; light on origin story.
Median round size $35M
The canonical slide order
Eleven slides, in the order they convert.
01
Title
Company name, one-line pitch, your name + role + email
02
Problem
Framed how the customer would describe it
03
Solution
What you've built — concrete, not abstract
04
Why now
What's true today that wasn't 5 years ago?
05
Market
TAM bottom-up; show the math
06
Product
Screenshots > diagrams
07
Traction
Strongest proof first
08
Business model
How you make money — pricing, ACV, gross margin
09
Competition
Honest landscape; what's your wedge
10
Team
Why this team wins
11
Ask
How much, what it gets you, what's next
Sector-tuned variants
Industry-specific adaptations.
B2B SaaS
ARR growth, NDR, payback, ACV ladder
Fintech
Unit economics, regulatory posture, take-rate
Climate / Energy
LCOE, deployment pipeline, policy tailwinds
Healthtech
Reimbursement, clinical evidence, regulatory path
Marketplaces
Liquidity, take-rate, supply / demand balance
Consumer
Cohort retention, CAC payback, brand metrics
Dev tools
Adoption funnel, free-to-paid, GTM motion
AI / ML
Defensibility, data flywheel, inference economics
Skip the blank slide.
Anker drafts a first version of every slide from your company profile, then critiques it against the patterns top funds look for.