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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. 10 ready-made 16:9 slides: cover / title, problem, solution, market (tam/sam/som), product, business model, traction, competition, team, and ask / use of funds. Download it as a PowerPoint .potx or copy it straight into Google Slides.

Cream pitch deck cover with a terracotta accent and serif-italic tagline

Two formats — choose yours

Download for PowerPoint Use in Google Slides

PowerPoint: .potx opens in PowerPoint 2010+, Microsoft 365, and Keynote.
Google Slides: opens the template preview — click Use template to copy it into your Google Drive.

Design: Forge
Colorway: Editorial Founder Story
Formats: PowerPoint .potx · Google Slides
Aspect: 16:9 widescreen
Slides: 10 pre-built layouts
Style: Professional & Corporate Aesthetic
License: Free for personal & commercial use
Updated: May 2026

How Forge is built

The serif-italic taglines are a separate text style; swap the tagline text but keep the style and the deck reads as one voice from cover to ask.

What's inside

Ten pre-built slides.

The investor-standard 10-slide pitch deck order — Problem before Solution, Market before Product, Ask last. That sequence is what VCs are trained to follow, so re-ordering forces them to do extra work. Replace placeholder text with your numbers and your raise is one Saturday away.

1Cover / Title

2Problem

3Solution

4Market (TAM/SAM/SOM)

5Product

6Business Model

7Traction

8Competition

9Team

10Ask / Use of Funds

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Good to know

Forge questions, answered.

How do I change the accent color?

In PowerPoint, open View → Slide Master and change the accent once; every slide follows. In Google Slides, use Slide → Edit theme. Forge keeps its layout either way — you're only swapping the palette.

How many of the ten slides should I keep?

All ten for a seed round; investors expect each one. A pre-seed deck can drop Traction if you have none yet and fold Business Model into Product. Don't add — a deck over fifteen slides gets skimmed.

Why is the slide order fixed?

It follows the ten-slide sequence investors are trained to read — Problem before Solution, Market before Product, Ask last — the same skeleton behind Sequoia's format and Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 rule. Reordering forces the reader to do extra work.

Can I add slides beyond the 10 included?

Yes. Duplicate any of the built-in layouts, or insert a new slide and pick a layout from the master — Forge's design carries over automatically. Delete whatever you don't use.

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