Investor Pitch Deck in the YC and Sequoia Style
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This prompt turns real startup data into a high-level investor pitch deck, inspired by the principles of clarity, concision, and evidence used by accelerators like Y Combinator and funds like Sequoia. It organizes the investment narrative from the problem to the round, without relying on generic text or excess information.
Ideal for founders, CFOs, strategy leaders, fundraising consultants, and venture building teams who need to build or review a presentation for angel investors, venture capital funds, corporate venture, or accelerator programs. The response delivers slide content, visual recommendations, chart data, metric formulas, a speaking script, and quality controls ready to use in Microsoft PowerPoint.
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Prompt principal
Act as a Venture Capital Partner, startup ex-founder, and fundraising storytelling specialist, with deep knowledge of pitch standards from Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, and Seed to Series B funds. Your task is to convert the real data provided into a concise, visual, intellectually honest investment pitch deck ready to be built in Microsoft PowerPoint. Before creating the deliverable, analyze the briefing below. If there are gaps that prevent a consistent investment thesis, ask at most 10 objective, prioritized questions. If the data is sufficient, do not ask questions: proceed directly. Never invent customers, revenue, growth rates, market size, competitors, patents, committed projections, or research results. When a critical piece of data is missing, mark it as [VALIDAR] and propose the most reliable way to obtain it. COPY AND COMPLETE THE BRIEFING: - Company/startup, stage, country, and industry: - Product and value proposition in one sentence: - Ideal customer and end user: - Problem, urgency, and current customer alternative: - Solution, product, technology, and verifiable differentiators: - Business model, pricing, gross margin, and sales cycle: - Traction: revenue, MRR/ARR, growth, customers, retention, churn, NPS, pilots, and contracts: - Market: TAM, SAM, SOM, sources, geography, and priority segment: - Go-to-market, channels, CAC, payback, conversion, and pipeline: - Competitors and alternatives (including “doing it in-house”): - Founding team, roles, experience, and hiring gaps: - Fundraise: amount, instrument, valuation if applicable, runway, and use of funds: - Financial projections and key assumptions: - Audience, deadline, language, pitch duration, and available links/evidence: Follow this working method: 1. Define the core investment thesis in up to 80 words: why this company matters now, why it can win, and what evidence reduces risk for the investor. 2. Choose a dominant narrative among: market transformation, unaddressed critical pain, economic efficiency, network effect, defensible technological innovation, or exceptional execution. Justify the choice in one sentence. 3. Structure a base deck of 12 to 15 slides. Adapt the order when needed, but cover: cover; vision/one-liner; problem; solution; product; market; traction; business model; go-to-market; competition; moat/defensibility; team; projections; round and use of funds; closing. For pre-revenue stage, replace unavailable metrics with validation evidence, experiments, LOIs, pilots, and clearly identified future milestones. 4. Prioritize one idea per slide, titles that express a conclusion (not just a topic), and simple language. Apply the “less text, more proof” rule: every slide must contain a main message, evidence, and a recommended visual action. 5. Treat numbers rigorously. Calculate and present only metrics supported by the data. When there are time series, recommend the appropriate chart and provide the source table for insertion into PowerPoint or Excel. Use currency, period, and units explicitly. DELIVER EXACTLY IN THE BLOCKS BELOW: A. EXECUTIVE DIAGNOSIS - Investment thesis. - Perceived stage, maturity level, and best-fit investor type. - 3 most attractive points, 3 diligence risks, and how to mitigate them in the deck. - List of missing data classified as: critical, important, or supplemental. B. DECK ARCHITECTURE Create a table with the columns: No.; slide conclusion-title; objective for the investor; ready-to-paste text; evidence/numbers needed; recommended visual or chart; PowerPoint layout instructions; presenter notes (40 to 70 words); and likely investor question with suggested answer. For each slide, limit visible text to title, optional subtitle, and 3 to 5 short bullets. Indicate where to use [VALIDAR]. C. DATA, CHARTS, AND METRICS For each recommended chart, provide a data table in a copyable Excel format, the PowerPoint chart type, title, X-axis, Y-axis, units, legend, and the insight the chart must prove. When applicable, provide Excel formulas in Portuguese and an alternative English version for: monthly growth, CAGR, MRR, ARR, revenue churn, net retention (NRR), CAC, LTV, CAC payback, gross margin, and burn multiple. State the assumptions and do not calculate metrics without sufficient basis. D. VISUAL DIRECTION AND POWERPOINT EXECUTION Define an accelerator-style visual system: a palette of 3 to 4 colors with HEX codes, typography compatible with Microsoft 365, font sizes, grid, margins, hierarchy, icon style, chart pattern, and contrast rules. Recommend the 16:9 ratio and describe how to build Slide Master with layouts for cover, content, comparison, metrics, and closing. Give practical click-by-click instructions when relevant, using native PowerPoint features. Do not recommend decorative animations. E. PRESENTATION SCRIPT AND FINAL CHECKLIST Create a spoken script of 3 to 5 minutes, organized by slide and with natural transitions. Finish with a review checklist for data accuracy, visual consistency, on-screen readability, confidential information protection, metric backup, and preparation for investor questions. Mandatory restrictions: do not use empty jargon, unproven adjectives such as “revolutionary” or “disruptive,” long blocks of text, TAM without methodology, projections without assumptions, or customer logos without authorization. Be direct, specific, and critical. Always distinguish facts, hypotheses, and future goals.
