A must-read: The ultimate guide to pitch deck design

In this week’s email, we’re giving you the ultimate guide to pitch deck design as well as a fascinating case study on how one founder used DocSend analytics to polish his pitch deck to perfection. Keep scrolling for even more of our favorite stories from the week. (Hint: Underwater robots may be involved.)

The ultimate guide to pitch deck design

No matter how great your next business idea, you won’t get much traction if your pitch deck doesn’t wow potential investors. Not sure where to start? We’ve got your back. After combing through data from pitch decks shared with real VCs, we’ve put together our ultimate guide to pitch deck design.

In this report, we’ll discuss how to:

Create a compelling narrative
Nail your branding
Help VCs easily visualize your product or service
Make your data pop
Add that final polish
And more

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Pitch deck interest metrics

Whereas investor activity stabilized last week, founder activity dropped off after a comparatively busy two-week period. VC activity rose by just 0.73% as investors held to their previous week’s form. The average time on deck once again remained at 2 minutes, 30 seconds, where it has been for most of the quarter. Founder activity fell by 16.38% but even with this drop VCs and founders still recorded the highest-ever entries for the twelfth week of the year in their respective metrics. This year-over-year perspective shows that fundraising activity is in good health overall, although it remains to be seen how much of this activity will turn into capital allocations a bit later in the year. Will investors and founders pick up the pace for the last week of Q1? Check back next week to see how the quarter ended.

Can you impress an investor in 90 seconds?

Ben Su, the co-founder of Capita, used DocSend to analyze how potential investors interacted with his pitch deck. The results shocked him. He discovered that, on average, investors only spent 90 seconds looking at his deck.

Could your pitch deck woo investors in 90 seconds? Learn how Ben revised his deck and his top three favorite DocSend features in this captivating case study.

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Recommended reads:

We’re partnering with Hubspot for a Pitch Deck Teardown. All attendees will receive a free pitch deck review, and 4 lucky founders will be selected to have their decks analyzed live by our panel of top-tier VCs. Save your spot.
Organize your pitch deck with a purpose. Justin Izzo, our head of DocSend research, gives you a bite-sized tip on how to organize your pitch deck so investors never feel lost. Watch the video.
Using open-source solutions to explore the deep. For over three decades, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has collected videos of ocean life with the help of underwater robots. Learn how it’s using FathomNet, an open-source image database, to share its knowledge with the world. Read now.