Real pitch decks used to raise funding in 2009, with slide-by-slide teardowns — stage, amount raised, and what each deck left unanswered.
2009 Pitch Deck Examples
Real decks founders used to raise in 2009, each broken down slide by slide with the original file attached.
10 teardowns from 2009
10 pitch deck teardowns from 2009. 8 state the funding stage the deck was used for and 6 disclose an amount raised. Every teardown embeds the original deck.
What this collection contains
Measured across the 10 decks on this page. Decks that never disclosed a fact are left out of that figure rather than estimated.
Decks in this collection: 10
Median slide count: 14 (10 of 10 decks report a slide count)
Median disclosed raise: $7M (6 of 10 decks disclose an amount)
Most common stages: Seed (4), Series A (2), Later Stage (1)
Most common sectors: Market Research / Human Intelligence (1), Marketing Software / Marketplace (1), Productivity / Other (1)
Most common headquarters: Eastern Europe (implied by slide 9) (1), New York City, NY (1)
