Seed & Pre-Seed Pitch Deck Examples

Real seed and pre-seed pitch decks with page-by-page teardowns — what founders showed, what they left out, and what the deck never answers.

Seed & Pre-Seed Pitch Deck Examples

The seed round is where a company earns the right to exist. These teardowns break down the decks founders used to raise their first outside capital.

1266 teardowns in this category

1266 teardowns in this category, spanning decks from 1991–2026. Of the 250 listed below, 242 list a funding stage and 230 disclose an amount raised. Every teardown includes the original deck, slide by slide.

What this collection contains

Measured across the 250 decks on this page. Decks that never disclosed a fact are left out of that figure rather than estimated.

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What 1,265 seed pitch decks show

  1. The median seed deck is 13 slides, with the middle half between 10 and 17. This is the largest cohort we measure.

    Across every industry, seed decks converge on a shorter format than later-stage decks — the evidence is thinner, and the strong decks do not pad.

    What to do with it: Thirteen slides is the honest target for a seed deck sent cold.

  2. 737 of the 1,265 decks have a verifiable round size, and the median is $2.1M.

    That is the round these decks were actually used to raise, across industries and years.

    What to do with it: Use it as a sanity check on your ask, then adjust for your industry using the industry pages linked below.

    Limitation: 528 decks have no verifiable round size and are excluded from the median rather than estimated.

  3. Among the 1,120 labelled decks, product appears in 364 around slide 5, market in 361 around slide 5, team in 337 around slide 4 and problem in 317 around slide 3.

    This is the clearest slide-order signal in our corpus: problem early, team in the first half, product and market in the middle.

    What to do with it: If your team slide is last, you are ordering against the pattern of over a thousand funded seed decks.

    Limitation: Labelling is partial; these are found-in counts across labelled decks, not coverage percentages.

What seed investors publish about seed decks

Guidance from the accelerators and funds, with current market context.

The seed deck order 1,120 labelled decks point to

This is the clearest ordering signal in our corpus, drawn from where labelled slides actually land.

  1. One-sentence definition. What the company does, plainly. (Sequoia Capital)
  2. Problem. Around slide 3 — the earliest-placed slide type in this cohort.
  3. Team. Around slide 4. Earlier than most founders expect, and it is the seed argument.
  4. Solution. Around slide 4–5, immediately after the people who will build it.
  5. Product. Around slide 5, shown rather than described.
  6. Market. Around slide 5, sized bottom-up from a real buyer.
  7. Traction or early evidence. Whatever is real, labelled honestly for what stage it is at.
  8. Why now. The change that opened the window. (Sequoia Capital)
  9. Ask and milestone. Median round here is $2.1M; tie it to a milestone and a runway. (Y Combinator 2023, Carta 2025)

Material that usually belongs in an appendix rather than the main deck: financial model; detailed roadmap; full customer or pipeline list; hiring plan.

Seed decks worth reading in full

Covers and commentary only; each links to the teardown.

What the strongest seed decks have in common

The most common seed deck mistakes

Seed deck checklist

Score your seed deck against 1,265 real decks

Pitch Score reads your deck and shows where its length, order and evidence sit against the largest seed cohort we measure.

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Seed pitch decks: common questions

How many slides should a seed deck have?

Median 13 across the 1,265 seed decks here, with the middle half between 10 and 17.

How much do companies raise at seed?

737 of the 1,265 decks have a verifiable round size and the median is $2.1M. Techstars separately describes typical pre-seed rounds of $1.5M–$2M for around 18 months of runway. (Techstars 2025)

What order should the slides go in?

Across 1,120 labelled decks: problem around slide 3, team around slide 4, solution and product around slides 4–5, market around slide 5.

How do I decide how much to raise?

Y Combinator's seed guide derives it: raise enough to reach a milestone, using roughly $15k per engineer per month as the all-in cost anchor. (Y Combinator 2023)

How long will the round take?

Set start and end dates so it does not drift — Techstars recommends exactly that — and plan runway generously, since Carta measured a 696-day median gap between rounds in Q2 2025. (Techstars 2025, Carta 2025)

Methodology and limitations

Where to go next

Sources

External facts on this page were checked against the pages below on 9 September 2026. Everything measured from our own deck corpus is marked as such.