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Red means: ‘Fundraising would be very hard without resolving this.’ Yellow means: ‘There is an issue, that can probably be fixed with a better story or by adding / amending available information.’ Green means go. And grey means ‘this is missing from the deck’ The exception is exit strategy: Green means it’s absent (because that’s a good thing), and ‘overall likelihood of fundraising’ is an overall calculation that uses weighted scoring from the other categories.Image Credits:Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch
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What happens when you feed a few thousand pitch pack of cards to an AI , analyze them all , and visualise out what the most common problems are for founders attempt to upraise other - stage funding ? Well , I decided to ascertain out .
A while back , I built a toolthat would automatically analyse a pitch deck and give you feedback . A couple of months and a few thousand analyzed deck of cards later , I have build up quite the library of brainstorm for what most founders are getting right — and untimely — in their pitch deck .
Of course , this is a peter aim at beginner who are n’t sure if their deck is any good . The sad truth is , though , commonly their hunch is right-hand . About 54 % of decks have a “ low ” likeliness of fire funding . In this circumstance , that means founder made central fault in putting their decks together ( e.g. , they forgot a squad slide or did n’t explain what they will do with the money ) .
Overall , only 6 % of the deck analyse by the AI putz let in all the information the AI automaton is looking for . That ’s not corking , frankly .
5 things most founders get right
Of course , not everything is amazing , and laminitis more often than not mess up and miss a whole gang of important info . Here are the five most unwashed issues :
5 most common mistakes in pitch decks
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5 most common storytelling problems in pitch decks
The AI dick droop things as “ jaundiced ” if it think there ’s an issue with the storytelling in a deck . The info might be there or there might be a problem within it , but it believably would n’t be a dealbreaker . A few class stood out here :
5 most commonly missed pieces of information in pitch decks
There is some entropy that founders miss out significantly more often than other data :
I know that I vocalize like a broken record at meter here , but I really need your company to upraise a lot of money . ward off the above mistakes !
