I lately wrote about DeckMatch’s $1 million seed spherical. Provided that the device evaluates pitch decks, it’s solely truthful that I supplied to guage its pitch deck, too. The founders noticed the irony in that and supplied its pitch deck as a sacrifice to the teardown gods.
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Slides on this deck
The deck is frivolously redacted. A piece on upcoming hires and an appendix on how the corporate is coaching its mannequin have been eliminated.
That apart, DeckMatch raised with a decent 14-slide deck:
- Cowl slide
- Downside slide
- “Generative AI is a part of the issue” slide
- “Who experiences this downside” slide
- Downside affect slide
- Resolution slide
- Demo slide
- Market alternative slide
- Go to market slide
- The Moat slide
- Targets/milestones slide
- Group slide
- The Ask slide
- Closing slide
Three issues to like
As a result of this product instantly targets VCs and even tries to guage decks, you’d higher consider I’m going to look significantly shut at this deck. Even with that in thoughts, the startup tells a really compelling story.
Turning the issue into the answer
[Slide 3] Om nom nom. Picture Credit: DeckMatch
It’s intelligent that the issue assertion exhibits that the issue is the answer. The convenience with which companies can ship huge quantity of high-quality outbound requests is a bonus for corporations, however not in the event you’re on the opposite finish. I’m already seeing an enormous uptick in web optimization spam, for instance. Excessive-profile VCs get hundreds upon hundreds of inbound pitch decks.
Turning the issue on itself, then, is an effective resolution: In case your inbox is filling up with custom-made, automated emails on account of generative AI, why not use AI to guage and take care of all of it? This slide makes it very straightforward to know, it’s humorous, and it’s an incredible visible illustration of the issue at hand.
Bonus factors: Learn the slide fastidiously, and also you see that it doesn’t say pitch decks or VCs anyplace. It says “inbound,” which hints at what the remainder of the deck entails. However that additionally signifies that the corporate’s title, DeckMatch, is maybe overly particular, contemplating that the market alternative is big.
An excellent workforce
[Slide 12] The “enjoyable truth” is cute, although. Picture Credit: DeckMatch
This isn’t essentially the most effective workforce slide, but it surely by some means works to point out off the standard of the workforce regardless of the slide.
Skilled founders tackling an issue that is smart makes me perk up immediately. Founding Edgefolio signifies that Leo Gasteen has expertise with the monetary trade, and whereas Homefair doesn’t instantly appear all that related (and maybe the workforce may have executed a greater job at explaining why it’s related), Walid Mustapha has deep AI and market expertise (I discovered this throughout my interview with him). On the floor, this looks as if a stable workforce.
When you have an incredible workforce, I normally advocate main with the workforce slide. As a rule of thumb, if the workforce slide is close to the top of the deck, that sometimes means the founders are attempting to bury it. However DeckMatch is doing the other: By sticking the slide on the finish of the deck, they hope that the dialog will finish on a excessive be aware. It’s a high-risk strategy, however I feel it labored nicely on this circumstance, in a humble-brag form of approach.
Downside affect slide
[Slide 5] Downside → Who has this downside → What’s the affect of this downside. Picture Credit: DeckMatch
I not often love decks which have three completely different downside slides, however DeckMatch is doing a very intelligent factor right here, breaking the story into 4 completely different steps:
- Slide 2: What’s the downside? An excessive amount of information.
- Slide 3: How is the issue evolving? It’s about to get so much worse.
- Slide 4: Who experiences this downside? Traders, HR, procurement, grant-making establishments and trade.
- Slide 5: What’s the affect of this downside? Missed alternatives and wasted effort.
DeckMatch does an incredible job spinning a story round a fancy, virtually common downside. It’s an incredible approach for serving to traders perceive what the chance is.
In the remainder of this teardown, I’ll check out three issues DeckMatch may have improved or executed in a different way, together with its full pitch deck!