For every 1,000 startups there is 1 venture capitalist. We don’t see startup pitch decks often, so unsurprisingly, there are even fewer venture capital pitch decks around public. Yes, VCs have to raise money too from LPs (limited partners)!
It takes up to 2 years to raise a venture capital fund, so if you thought startup raising was hard, think again.
There are very few venture capital pitch decks around, but I know you’re interested in seeing what they look like out of morbid interest, or perhaps you are raising yourself?
This is a collection of all the decks that are publicly available, or a VC hasn’t confided in me to date (As usual, I’ll never share anything confided in confidence). There are a mix of VC, accelerators and fund of funds. It doesn’t make sense to split them into multiple blogs given the paucity of them.
It’s not as comprehensive as the startup pitch deck collection (which has taken 3 years to date to get to 90), but it’s a start.
If you have a VC deck to share, please ping me. If you’re reading this you know you could help others if you shared too.
Here is an interesting podcast on raising a fund.
Alpha Bridge Ventures
Chris Douvos, the Super LP, did a a slide by slide commentary so that you get the LP’s take on the deck. You can check out the commentary here.
Alpha Bridge Founders Pitch DeckAlternative Protein Fund
I believe they are still raising (second close). You can see their funding page here.
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AgFunder Grow Impact Fund
Artesian Australian Venture Capital Fund
This is the deck Artesian used to raise their $100m venture capital fund of fund focused on Australia.
Artesian Australian Venture Capital FundArk Kapital Fund I
Ark Kapital raised a $182m fund I in a mix of debt and equity funding.
Ark Kapital Fund IAwesome People Fund 2 Memo
Awesome people didn’t make a pitch deck, rather they made a memo.
They used this to raise $20m in October 2021.
Awesome People Fund 2 - Deal MemoCapitalX Fund 1
CapitalX raised $25M+ in August 2020.
CapitalX Fund IConcept Ventures Fund I
Reece Chowdhry raised a seed UK fund 1 of £50m in 2022.
Concept Ventures Fund IContrarian Ventures Fund I
Contrarian Ventures raised £101m in 2022.
Contrarian-Ventures-Fund-I-flatClearBanc $300 million in Series B
This isn’t strictly a VC deck, though it sort of is. Rose by any other name and such.
I have added commentary on the ClearBanc pitch deck there.
ClearBanc-Pitch-Deck-flat smallDay One Ventures
Day-One-Ventures-VC-Pitch-Deck-smallEarl Grey Capital Fund II Memo and Primer Deck
Earl Grey Capital raised a £20m fund in May 2022.
They share links to the team and their portfolio in links. Other information was not made public.
Earl Grey Fund II – Memo
Earl_Grey_Fund_II_(public)Earl Grey Fund II – Primer Deck
EGII Fund II Primer + publicOn Deck Series-A and Accelerator
On Deck raised two funds (rounds?). They didn’t make pitch decks, they wrote investment memos instead. There are links to the memos on many blog instead. Click the images and you’ll get there.
Series-A
Accelerator
Seedcamp Fund IV
Decent deck. They proactively share their learnings. Some funny things if you know why to include ‘founders fight for our pro-rata.’
Seedcamp-fund-ivSeedcamp Fund V
Blog on the Fund V
Seedcamp-Pitch-DeckHackers/Founders
Hackers and founders have raised 5 funds to date for their accelerator. Here is fund 1 and 5.
Co-op Mexico – Venture capital fund 1 (2017)
MX Venture capital fund 1Co-op Mexico – Venture capital fund 1 (2016)
MX Fund 01 - HackersFounders Co-op Mexico Pitch Deck 2016Co-op Mexico – Venture capital fund 5
HackersFounders Co-op Mexico 5Hack/Fund V – Publicly traded
hackfund-v-pitch-deck publicly tradedLong Journey Ventures Fund I Deck
Long Journey Ventures was founded by Cyan Banister and Lee Jacobs and raised a $35m fund.
LJV_FinalNov-redacted flat2 smallNotation capital
Fund 1
Notation are pioneering pre-seed venture capital funding in New York. You can read about their investment thesis here.
Notation Capital Fund 1Fund 2
Notation closed their $27m fund 2 in February 2018 and they’ve shared their deck again. You can read about their experience here.
Notation Capital Fund 2Not Boring Capital – Fund I Memo
Packy McCormick made his name creating the ‘Not Boring’ newsletter and leveraged that into becoming an investor.
Fund I Memo
He raised a $9.9m fund with his investment memo.
Not Boring Capital - Fund I Memo - F&FFund I Memo
He went on to (plan) to raise $25m for his fund 2.
Not Boring Capital - Fund II Memo - NewsletterOATV O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Fund 3 pitch deck
This is a heavily redacted Fund 3 pitch deck O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures used to raise their fund from limited partners. It was targeted at $75m.
OATV Fund III Pitch DeckPrecursor Fund III Deck
Charles Hudson used this deck to raise a $40m fund in October 2020.
Precursor Fund III Presentation Q3 2020 Edited for Signature BlockSatgana Fund I
Satgana raised its first fund of $29m in 2022.
Satgana Fund IShrug Capital Fund IV
Niv Dror and Moshe Lifschitz raised a $54m fund in September 2021.
Shrug Capital IV LP Email
Shrug Capital IV LP EmailShrug Founder Deck
Shrug Capital Fund IVSlingshot Venture Fund
This fund was setup to invest in graduates of the Slingshot accelerator in Australia. It’s a pretty detailed deck but I think their investment thesis is flawed.
Slingshot Venture FundSpacecadet Fund I
Spacecadet went all out to make their deck for LPs and made a website (you can see the Spacecadet site here so long as it is live). It is a lot of work and I wouldn’t recommend it, but up to you.
They raised a $15m fund in September 2021.
You can see the outline of the deck here:
Surge Ventures
Surge focus on energy investments out of Texas. This is the best deck available to date in my opinion, well, it’s the most detailed.
There is a fab blog about their raise here: https://kirkcoburn.com/2016/02/16/my-journey-to-raise-a-venture-capital-fund-in-houston/
SURGE Ventures Series Seed A Fund Pitch DeckSusa Ventures IV and Opportunity Fund II Deck
The GPs Leo Polovets, Chad Byers, Seth Burman set out to raise a $100m IV and $200m opportunity fund in March 2021.
Susa Fund DeckTodd and Rahul’s Angel Fund II Deck
Todd Goldberg and Rahul Vohra raised a $25m fund in December 2020.
t&r_fundIIWeekend Fund 3.0 Deck
Ryan Hoover raised a $21m fund in April 2021.
Weekend Fund 3.0 for publicWork Life
Work Life was founded by Brianne Kimmel and has raised two fund to date on the future of work.
Work Life Fund I
Brianne Kimmel shares some comments on her deck in My pitch to Marc Andreessen, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and investors in Work Life.
Work life vc fundWork Life Fund II
WorklifeDeckWorld Fund Fund I
Raised €350m in October 2021.
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