About and sources
Wall of Decks collects pitch decks that were used to raise a pre-seed, angel or seed round and have been published, cuts them into slides, and labels each slide by what it is for. It is a place to see how real decks were put together, not a guide to what investors want.
Where the decks come from
Every deck links to where it was published. The library holds 171 decks from 2005 to 2026:
- 26 decks published in full by their founders or companies, as PDFs, blog posts or public Pitch presentations.
- 58 decks from Persuade & Raise, Liam Gill's newsletter of deck breakdowns. Stage and amount come from the breakdown, and the review notes on those slides are his.
- 52 decks from TechCrunch's Pitch Deck Teardown series by Haje Jan Kamps. Each article shows a handful of slides and lists the rest by name; the short review notes are his.
- 35 decks known only by their slide order, from teardowns and founder posts that list every slide but do not show them. They count towards the order map and benchmarks but have no images.
Only decks for pre-seed, angel and seed rounds are included. Later rounds are left out even when the deck is public.
How slides are labelled
Each slide is given one of 17 sections, such as problem, team, traction or ask. For decks with images, an AI model chose the section by looking at the slide itself; not every label has been checked by a person. For TechCrunch decks and order-only decks, the section comes from the slide's name in the source, matched by a fixed set of rules.
Labels can be wrong, especially for slides that do two jobs at once. If you find one, send a correction.
What this library cannot tell you
165 of the 171 decks raised money. Only 6 are failed raises or rejected versions (Airbnb (AirBed&Breakfast), Flowtab, NeuralSpace (first deck), RoomBounce, Tealeaf, Wattage).
Founders publish the decks that worked, so this is a library of survivors. A pattern that is common here may be just as common in decks that failed, and nothing here shows that a slide caused a raise. Treat the order map and benchmarks as a description of published decks, not as a recipe.
Where a stage, amount or year could not be confirmed from the deck or the founder, the deck's page says so. Some public copies were edited after the round closed; those are noted too.
Removal and corrections
The slides belong to the companies that made them, and the review notes to the people who wrote them. They are shown for study, with a link back to the source.
If you made one of these decks or own its rights and want it taken down, email hi@wallofdecks.com with the deck's page link. It will be removed without question, normally within a day.
Add a deck
Raised a pre-seed or seed round and willing to share the deck, including one that did not raise? Submit it here. Failed raises are the decks this library needs most.