25 SaaS & Developer Tools Pitch Decks That Raised Under $1M

SaaS & Developer Tools Pitch Decks That Raised Under $1M

SaaS & Developer Tools pitch decks behind rounds of Under $1M, each broken down slide by slide. Round sizes come from the amount each deck or its company disclosed — nothing is inferred. The average deck in this collection runs 13 slides.

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What this collection contains

Measured across the 25 decks on this page. Decks that never disclosed a fact are left out of that figure rather than estimated.

• Decks in this collection: 25
• Median slide count: 13 (25 of 25 decks report a slide count)
• Deck years covered: 2011–2019 (25 of 25 decks state a year)
• Median disclosed raise: $287K (25 of 25 decks disclose an amount)
• Most common stages: Seed (11), Later Stage (7), Pre-seed (2)
• Most common headquarters: Helsinki, Finland (1), Not stated in slides (1), San Francisco, California, United States (1)

• AdPushup Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Case Study in Pre-Seed Traction and AdTech Optimization — Pre-Seed · 2014 · raised $632k · 11 slides · Unknown (Website active)
• Adventure Bucket List Pitch Deck Breakdown: A B2B2C Play for Tourism Digitization — Seed · 2014 · raised $200,000 · 16 slides · Vancouver, Canada
• Amixr Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Minimalist Approach to Incident Management Fundraising — Later Stage · 2018 · raised $500,000 · 16 slides
• Auctio Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Minimalist Approach to B2B Referral Management — Later Stage · 2014 · raised $475,000 · 10 slides
• Bliss Pitch Deck Breakdown: Proving Product-Market Fit with $84k ARR — Seed · 2015 · 14 slides
• Bliss.ai Pitch Deck Breakdown: Selling Engineering Productivity Through Code Quality Metrics — Seed · 2015 · raised $750k · 14 slides
• Contently Pitch Deck Breakdown: Owning the Content Value Chain with a $9M Series B — Series-B · 2014 · raised $9 · 14 slides
• Cooleaf Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Masterclass in High-Impact, Low-Text Visual Storytelling — Later Stage · 2013 · raised $800,000 · 13 slides
• everbill Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Minimalist Seed Deck Focused on Early Revenue Traction — Seed · 2012 · 8 slides
• GetLinks Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Masterclass in Traction-First Storytelling — Later Stage · 2015 · raised $625,000 · 15 slides
• GridCure Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Minimalist Approach to Smart Grid Big Data — 2013 · raised $95,000 · 8 slides
• GymHit Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Minimalist 7-Slide Approach to Fitness SaaS — Later · 2018 · raised $850,000 · 7 slides
• Indemand Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Minimalist Approach to On-Demand SaaS — Seed · 2015 · raised $125,000 · 7 slides
• iON Pitch Deck Breakdown: Real Margins, No Ask — 2018 · 12 slides
• Lola Pitch Deck Breakdown: Leveraging Founder Pedigree and Strategic Partnerships — Later Stage · 2019 · raised $37 · 19 slides
• myTips Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Visual Case for Onboarding Optimization — Seed · 2013 · raised $199,000 · 16 slides
• SmartRecruiters Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Masterclass in Social Proof and Product Architecture — Later Stage · 2019 · raised $50 · 16 slides
• Storygami Pitch Deck Breakdown: Leveraging Social Proof to Sell Interactive Video SaaS — Seed / Other · 2013 · raised $100,000 · 12 slides · United Kingdom / USA (500 Startups)
• TalentBase Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Lean 9-Slide Case for African Payroll Automation — Later Stage · 2015 · raised $330,000 · 9 slides
• Tradespace Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Minimalist 8-Slide Approach to IP Commercialization — Seed · 2017 · raised $500,000 · 8 slides · San Francisco, California, USA
• TruckTrack Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Minimalist Approach to Logistics SaaS Fundraising — Seed · 2013 · raised $394,600 · 9 slides
• Trym Pitch Deck Breakdown: Navigating the High-Growth Cannabis SaaS Market — Seed · 2015 · raised $125,000 · 15 slides
• Usetrace Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Hand-Drawn Minimalist Approach to Testing-as-a-Service — Seed · 2011 · raised $287,400 · 11 slides · Helsinki, Finland
• WalletKit Pitch Deck Breakdown: A Developer-First Approach to the Mobile Wallet Boom — Seed · 2012 · raised $500k (per ask slide) · 34 slides · Not stated in slides
• WeTipp Pitch Deck Breakdown: Leveraging Community Skills to Drive Member Engagement — Pre-Seed · 2016 · raised $150,000 · 19 slides

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