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Free startup pitch deck templates · 10-slide format

Startup Pitch Deck Templates

Three founder pitch decks — Velocity for B2B SaaS, Forge for consumer and editorial, Spectrum for the design-forward. Each is laid out in the ten-slide order investors expect, with realistic seed-stage placeholders (ARR, NRR, TAM/SAM/SOM) so it's usable from the first open. Download for PowerPoint or copy to Google Slides — free for the raise, no signup.

✓ Investor-standard 10-slide order✓ Free for your raise✓ No signup or attribution✓ PowerPoint + Google Slides
Pick a design

Three takes on the same ten-slide pitch.

Same investor-standard structure, three visual tones — so choose on look, not layout. Velocity runs dark and technical, Forge reads warm and editorial, Spectrum gives every slide its own color. Open a card to see all ten slides and choose your format.

Velocity — Modern SaaS preview
Velocity — Modern SaaS
Dark navy field, lime-green accent. Built for B2B SaaS founders — bold typography, big stats, HUD-style headers. Sized for an investor's screen in a dim room.
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Forge — Editorial Founder Story preview
Forge — Editorial Founder Story
Cream paper, terracotta accent, serif-italic taglines. Made for consumer, lifestyle, and craft-led startups whose pitch reads more like a magazine feature than a finance memo.
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Spectrum — Curated Color Per Slide preview
Spectrum — Curated Color Per Slide
Each of the 10 slides wears a different background color from a curated palette (navy, sage, marigold, coral, lavender, forest, burgundy). Same layout, ten visual moments — for design-confident founders.
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The ten slides

What goes on each slide.

Every design follows the sequence investors are trained to read — Problem before Solution, Market before Product, Ask last. It's the same skeleton behind Sequoia's pitch-deck format and Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 rule; re-ordering it just makes an investor work harder to follow you.

01CoverCompany, one-line positioning, the round you're raising.
02ProblemThe pain, sized — who feels it and how often.
03SolutionYour answer in a sentence, tied back to the problem.
04MarketTAM / SAM / SOM — how big this gets.
05ProductWhat it does, ideally shown not told.
06Business ModelHow you make money and what it costs to.
07TractionRevenue, growth, retention — proof it's working.
08CompetitionThe landscape and why you win a slice of it.
09TeamWhy you're the ones to build this.
10AskThe raise, the use of funds, the milestones it buys.
Make it yours

From template to your raise.

  1. PowerPoint or Google Slides: download the .potx or click Use in Google Slides to copy the whole deck into your Drive. Same ten slides either way.
  2. Replace the bracketed placeholders ([Company Name], [customer type], [Photo]) and the sample numbers with your own. The decks ship with realistic seed-stage figures — swap them rather than starting from a blank slide.
  3. Keep the order. Problem before Solution, Market before Product, Ask last — that’s the sequence investors expect, and holding to it is the difference between a deck they skim and one they follow.
Free for any commercial use, including the raise itself. No attribution required.
Pitch deck questions

Slides, structure, and stages.

How many slides should a startup pitch deck have?
Ten to fifteen, with about twelve as the sweet spot for a first investor meeting. These templates ship ten core slides, which keeps you on the lean end — add a backup appendix for deep-dive questions rather than padding the main deck.
What goes on each slide, and in what order?
Cover, Problem, Solution, Market, Product, Business Model, Traction, Competition, Team, Ask — in that sequence. It's the order these templates already follow, because it's the order investors are trained to read.
What is the 10/20/30 rule?
It's Guy Kawasaki's guideline: ten slides, twenty minutes, no font smaller than thirty points. These decks are built around the ten-slide count, so they fit that framework out of the box.
Do these work for a pre-seed, seed, or Series A raise?
Yes — the ten-slide skeleton is the same across stages; what changes is the Traction slide. Pre-seed leans on vision and team, seed adds early metrics, Series A wants hard growth numbers. Swap the figures for your stage and the structure holds.
Can I edit the deck in both PowerPoint and Google Slides?
Every design is a PowerPoint .potx download and a one-click Google Slides copy. Build in whichever you present from.
Are they free to use for a real fundraise?
Yes — free for commercial use, including the actual raise. No signup, no email, and no attribution required.
Updated through May 2026