Pitch deck design ideas

Start with a format investors already know. Sequoia Pitch Deck follows the ten-part business plan outline Sequoia Capital publishes for founders, with a strip at the foot of each slide that tracks all ten sections. Airbnb Pitch Deck keeps the slide order of the 2009 seed deck, Uber Pitch Deck retells the 2008 UberCab deck in black and white, and LinkedIn Pitch Deck rebuilds the Series B deck Reid Hoffman published with his commentary. For a hard limit on length, 10/20/30 Rule holds you to Guy Kawasaki's ten slides, twenty minutes and no text under 30pt. SlideSpeak made these as unofficial homages and has no affiliation with the companies or people they name.

To set your own look, pick by mood. Midnight Pitch and Aurora put huge numbers on dark gradient canvases for SaaS rounds, Demo Day gives you giant type and one orange bar for a three-minute stage slot, and Keynote Minimal takes the one-idea-per-slide style of a Steve Jobs keynote. Monolith and Runway stay quiet and sparse, Spark and Holo suit consumer apps, and Hearth tells a warm, brand-led story on cream.

Growth-stage rounds turn on metrics. Term Sheet sets a Series A or B story in ruled columns under serif headlines, and Traction gives your numbers white KPI cards and clean charts. Paste any of these prompts into ChatGPT or Claude, tell the AI what you are raising, and it applies the same palette, fonts and avoid list to each slide.