MarTech Pitch Deck: The 14 Slides You Need (+ 10 Examples)

If you’re looking for investors for your MarTech startup (short for “Marketing Technology”), you’ll need to prepare a rock-solid pitch deck. Indeed, VCs spend less than 4 minutes in average per pitch deck, so you’ll better prepare a compelling one to stand out from the competition.

Fortunately, all VCs and angels agree on the same backbone structure for any type of business. To make it easier, we have laid out below the 14 slides you will need to include in your MarTech pitch deck.

We’ve also included 10 real-life MarTech pitch deck examples so you can find inspiration!

Let’s dive in!

The 14 slides you need for your MarTech pitch deck

Your MarTech pitch deck will likely be slightly different depending on whether you are pre-seed, seed or Series A+. Indeed, if you are pre-revenue for instance, you might not have early traction at all.

As rule of thumb, the more advanced your startup is the more content you should have in your pitch deck. Beware of endless, repetitive presentations: have clear titles, separate slides for each different topic.

Slide 1: Title

The title slide is the front page of your presentation.

Make sure your product or value proposition is clear from the outset. For example, use an image of your product or, better, of your end-user application (a consumer using your product).

Slide 2: The Problem

The problem slide is the “why” of your business.

Therefore, list here the 2/3 friction points you aim to fix with your product.

Slide 3: The Solution

Your startup builds and commercialises a product and/or a service which solves the problem laid out on slide 2. The solution slide should not explain in detail your product nor how it works. Instead, focus on the benefits for your customers.

Ideally, you should compare the pain points explained on slide 2 (the problem) to the benefits your solution brings to your customers. So it’s crystal clear to investors your solution really adds value to potential customers.

Slide 4: Market Opportunity

In the market slide, you need to clearly identify 2 very important metrics:

  1. Market size: how big is your market?
  2. Market growth: how fast does your market grow?

If you are operating in a niche market, chances are that you will face some challenges. Indeed, the information might not be publicly available. In any case, you should be able to make a high-level estimation of your market. Read our article on market sizing and how to estimate TAM, SAM and SOM for your startup.

When looking for these metrics, you have multiple sources of information: public reports, specialised press, etc. Even public companies publish press releases and annual reports including some of their proprietary market estimates so be sure to look there too.

Slide 5: Competition

The competition slide follows the market overview and must answer 2 key questions:

How fragmented is your market?

For example, are there 3 big players sharing 90% market share or thousands of small players? Here, refer to public market reports and your own understanding of the competitive landscape.

Also, a few questions you may want to answer in this slide are:

  • Who are your competitors?
  • Are they local, regional, national or global?
  • Are there any product alternatives to your product?
  • What about their IP / technological advantage?

Where do you position yourself vs. competition?

Is your solution a game changer other competitors don’t have (yet)? Do you have competitors with similar products/services?

Ideally, you would create a small table with, for each type of competitors and their main characteristics.

For instance, do they all a global presence? Do they cover all the products you offer? Also, what is their relative price positioning (expensive vs. accessible)?

Slide 6: Revenue model

The revenue slide of your MarTech pitch deck is very important. Now that we have clearly identified the problem you are solving and the benefits of your solution, let’s have a closer look at how you generate revenue.

MarTech industries are very diverse, hence the scope of business models are very different from B2C to B2B startups.

For example: are you offering a subscription or a transaction revenue model?

Slide 7: Product

Here we need to explain clearly how your product works, both from a medical and technological point-of-view.

Instead, include in your MarTech pitch deck product slide things such as:

  • whether you have a white-labelled solution or a proprietary back-end / database
  • what’s your intellectual property?
  • how many full time front/back-end engineers you have
  • how much you invested already in your tech
  • Etc.

Slide 8: Go-to-market

The go-to-market slide explains how you acquire your customers. Acquisition can either be online or offline (or both):

  • Online acquisition: pay-per-click campaigns (e.g. Google Ads), content & SEO, social media, etc.
  • Offline acquisition: print ads, events & fairs, mail, etc.

Almost all MarTech startups mostly use an online acquisition (especially true for B2C MarTech businesses).

Online acquisition is sub-divided into 2 main categories itself:

  • Inbound acquisition: customers convert from leads, at the top of funnel, who visit your landing page or website. These visitors (also referred to as “traffic”) either come from paid ads or organic sources (SEO, content)
  • Outbound acquisition: customers are acquired via a sales team who actively reach out to potential customers. Because leads do not come by themselves but you reach out to them, this is an “outbound” strategy instead. Outbound is, for example, used by many B2B businesses (Enterprise SaaS for instance)

Note: to forecast customer acquisition, have a read at our article here (+ free template)

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Slide 9: Traction

Only include the traction slide if you already have some early traction. Traction can be revenues for instance, but not necessarily (e.g. if you have sign-ups, free users, etc.).

In general, the more historical performance you have, the more details you should give. For instance, if you start generating revenues 12 months ago and experienced a steady growth until then, include a bar chart of your revenues (or customers, users, etc.) over the past 12 months.

Instead, if you have limited financial performance and/or numbers have been quite volatile, include today’s numbers instead.

Slide 10: Team

The team slide is one of the most important: investors invest in great teams before anything else.

The slide can either include the co-founding team only, but can also include key professionals and/or advisors as well.

Also, include key team members if they really add value.

Also, only include advisors if they are relevant to your industry. Do you have angel investors with significant experience who advise you on strategy?

For the team members’ details, keep it simple: name, position, years of experience and/or previous companies is more than enough.

Note: add a clickable link to the respective Linkedin profiles so investors can refer to a more exhaustive resume for your team members (if relevant)

Slide 11: Roadmap

The roadmap slide tells investors where you are going and how is product going to evolve in the future. You can either keep it high-level (e.g. your long-term strategy) or more detailed (e.g. the pipeline of the near-future product features).

Investors do not just invest in your product as it is today. For example, you might only have developed a MVP with limited features for early-adopters while your product could be tweaked and serve a much larger customer base in the future.

Also, you might be broadening the type of products you offer in the future. Or you might introduce premium services such as a subscription, or premium listing fees. All of these additional features are very important to add in your investment deck.

Slide 12: Financial Plan

Along with your product and the team, the financial plan slide is highly important. Unfortunately, many startups overlook the importance of financial projections in their MarTech pitch deck.

Think about your audience: investors (venture capital firms or angel investors) are financially literate individuals. Therefore, they invest in your business to generate returns. Logically, they care a lot about your financials and more especially, the expected financial performance of your business.

Do not expect investors to make up their own plan for your startup if you haven’t. As CEO, founder or entrepreneur alike, you should have a clear idea of where you are going.

As rule of thumb, the more advanced your startup is, the more granularity you should include here. Pre-seed startups might keep it short (1 slide) yet we recommend seed and Series A+ startups to include 2 slides instead.

Note: when presenting your financials, we recommend for pre-seed startup to show 3 years. Instead, seed and Series A+ startups should include 5 years projections as investors will likely ask for it for their own return analyses purposes.

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Slide 13: Funding Ask

All pitch decks have a clear goal: raising capital from investors. The funding ask slide is where you clearly state your ask: how much are you raising?

Read our article on how to determine how much you should raise for you startup. While raising too little creates obvious problems, raising too much isn’t necessarily better.

On top of the amount, a good practice is to include a pie chart of where you will spend that money over a given period (your runway). Will you spend the bulk of it in product development to build your MVP? Or will you use a large portion in sales & marketing to commercialise your product and find product-market fit?

Our financial model templates include a cash burn dashboard where you can easily assess how much you should raise, and where you will spend your money. We also included charts ready to be included in your pitch deck. See how to use our cash burn dashboard here.

Slide 14: Contact

The contact slide is the last slide of your presentation. It has 2 main goals, this is where:

  1. You open the floor to questions from your audience when you are pitching
  2. You provide contacts (email and telephone) for investors who would only receive the PDF version of your presentation

Our 10 MarTech Pitch Deck Examples

1. MixPanel

Mixpanel is an analytic platform that helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better products through data.

The pitch deck above is from their 2014 Series B. This was their last fundraising round, after which they became profitable so it’s really good example for later-stage startups especially.

Fundraising round details:

2. Buffer

Buffer is a software application for the web and mobile, designed to manage accounts in social networks, as well as analyze their results and engage with their community.

This pitch deck is their $500k Seed round in 2011. They raised a $3.5M Series A in 2014.

Fundraising round details:

3. Apteo

Apteo from PPerksi

Apteo enables eCommerce and SaaS marketing, sales, and customer success teams grow and retain customers through predictive user behavior.

Fundraising round details:

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4. OwnLocal

OwnLocal helps local media companies to power their digital services by automatically converting traditional print ads into powerful online marketing campaigns.

Fundraising round details:

5. Contentools

OwnLocal helps local media companies to power their digital services by automatically converting traditional print ads into powerful online marketing campaigns.

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6. Improvado

Improvado is a data aggregation platform that gives marketers real transparency into their marketing efforts.

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7. Moz

Moz is a provider of inbound marketing analytics software.

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8. Contently

Contently helps companies create results-driven content by using smart technology and connecting them with experts.

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9. Bellwethr

Bellwethr provides businesses with no-code tools to build decision intelligence capabilities.

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10. Beeketing

Beeketing helps you grow, convert and retain your customers via automation.

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