Create Convincing Pitch Decks Professionally

The pitch deck has long been a usually mandatory part of any business pitch in the United States and is becoming increasingly popular in Germany. This additional documentation tool supplements the business plan and allows more visual design over the sometimes rather dry presentation form of the business plan.

Usually used as a startup pitch deck, you are going to use the slide deck (typically a set of PowerPoint slides) to make a compact, visually appealing pitch presentation available both as PDF to email to your potential financing partners and also to give on location. Visual design aesthetic, a good structure and a focus on the essential success factors of your startup, designation of clear milestones and growth targets are the key to a convincing startup pitch deck.

The Convincing Pitch Deck: Individualization Is Key

The pitch deck usually consists of 10-12 slides, but can in some cases be much more extensive depending on the specifications that need to be emphasized for your pitch presentation at that point in time. Experienced entrepreneurs know that they need to adjust their startup pitch deck for each investor slightly to address the particular focus of the VCs or business angel.

For example: If a VC is a) more interested in the social aspects of a startup, another may have b) an affinity for numbers. Still others want c) more background on the team, or d) a particularly detailed description of the product, or e) the client value.

Priority: Pitch Deck vs. Business Plan?

A lot of work can cause (or create) inconsistency risks, especially if you have never created a detailed, classic business plan before. As you are often asked for a BP after successful initial talks, it may be worth considering whether the business plan really should be of secondary importance to the pitch deck. We at BrainHive recommend first creating the business plan and then the slide deck (rough sketches of both documents can and should of course always be made no matter how you set the priority).

PS: We know that the idea to replace BP with pitch decks is popular these days. The argument that no one would have time to read a business plan may have a kernel of truth, especially in the US. However, you should, if you truly believe in your idea, be convinced of the benefits of a fully elaborated document explaining your business model perfectly. If not for the harried investors (as tech startup magazines say), then at least for yourself. If you have any more questions, we would be happy to help you with the business plan.

BrainHive: Convincing Pitch Decks

As a business plan consultancy that has been on the market for many years, we have recently started producing pitch decks, one-pager business plans and even pitch videos.

The requirements to founders who need financing have increased enormously in recent years as regards the technical and document complexity. Investors have always been very careful and require a lot of documentation from candidates. Today’s digital options expand the scale of possible information gathering considerably, so that founders rarely satisfy potential investors with insufficient or incomplete documentation nowadays.

The good news: In addition to traditional banks, today there is a variety of other options available to successfully obtain financing. In light of these the pitch deck is no longer optional, but imperative.

What Makes BrainHive Pitch Decks Unique? A Number of Things:

• Visually appealing pitch deck templates (Pitch deck sample/Slide master)
• Professional structurebased on the best international practices (ideal norm guidelines)
• Enhancing the traditional pitch deck parts with additional slides based on your specifications or those of your recipients
• German and English
• High-quality images– graphs, pictures and diagrams of your choice or our suggestions
• We could also prepare animations, so you dazzle with pleasant illustrations with the pitch presentation (PowerPoint-click animations or more elaborate ones)
• Microsoft Powerpoint and Prezi
• Pitch decks are transformed into professional screen cast presentations with or without extra animation, voiceover/green screen speaker/s (see our Pitch-Video article)

Apart from all the mentioned factors, of course, friendliness, professional communication and good chemistry also play a role. Trust BrainHive- we know the way and fully meet your expectations. Our background in classical strategy / consulting has enabled us to fulfill even the highest requirements ever since our company was founded.

Creating the Pitch Deck for Your Startup – and Much More!

We can facilitate your project in every stage of its development. Cooperation with our marketing agency BrainHive Ethical Marketing makes it possible to create pitch decks and pitch videos fulfilling even the highest demand for quality. We can also create logos or redo your pictures/graphs for the pitch deck if they are not up to your standards.

At no time must you worry that we are not being careful about confidentiality. Besides the availability of the usual written contracts to maintain confidentiality and privacy, we have high ethical standards when it comes to our integrity as a professional startup consultancy. With us you can be sure that we will keep our insights into your business model to ourselves.

Conclusion: A Professional Pitch Deck Has Never Been Easier

We want you to concentrate on the really stimulating parts of your founder activity. If you are clear on the strategic issues, you’ll manage to set your business up much faster. Our strong focus and motivated team will make sure you get an impeccable pitch deck.

Come to us and be amazed by the terms, on which we can create the pitch deck for you. You will be surprised by our competitive rates and at the same time the high quality of our services.

BrainHive – From Founders to Founders.