Review your pitch deck against 342 decks that actually raised

Five steps, in order. One, cut to the slide count that matches your stage: the median seed deck that closed its round ran 12 slides. Two, make the ask explicit, with the amount, the runway it buys, and the milestone it unlocks. Three, add a 'why now' slide if you do not have one. Four, read three or four funded decks from your own stage and industry and copy their ORDER, not their words. Five, send it as a tracked link so you learn which slide people stop on.

Rarely because the idea is bad. Usually because the deck asks the partner to do work: no clear ask, traction buried on slide 11, no reason this has to happen now, and a story that arrives out of order. A partner gives a cold deck a couple of minutes. If they cannot say what you do, what is working, and what you want by the end of that, the answer is no by default, and it is usually silent.

Specificity and sequence. Real numbers instead of adjectives, one claim per slide, and an order that answers questions in the order they occur to the reader: what is this, who needs it, is it working, why now, why you, what do you want. Compelling is not design polish. Every deck in our library was made in the same tools everyone else uses; what separates them is that they answer clearly.

Three different jobs, and it is worth being honest about which one you need. For design and generation, Gamma, Beautiful.ai, Canva, Pitch and Slidebean are strong and Round Funded does not compete with them. For feedback and benchmarking, Deckmetric, Pitchkit, Peachscore and this free pitch deck review. For sharing and tracking, DocSend, Papermark, OpenVC Decks and the Round Funded Data Room. The distinction that matters: design tools tell you what a deck should look like, while Round Funded tells you what decks that closed the round actually did, from 342 of them.

Seven blocks on a single page. One, a one-line description of what you do and for whom. Two, the problem in one sentence. Three, your solution and what makes it hard to copy. Four, traction, with your two strongest real numbers. Five, market, sized bottom-up rather than from an industry report. Six, team, with the one line that explains why you specifically. Seven, the ask, with the amount, the instrument and what it buys. The one-pager is what gets forwarded internally, so it has to survive being read without you in the room.

Match your stage. Across the funded decks in our library the medians run: pre-seed about 11 slides, seed 12, Series A 14, Series B 16, Series C about 15. The middle half of all decks fall between 10 and 18. Longer decks are not penalised for length itself, but a 30-slide seed deck almost always means the story has not been edited yet.

Most help with exactly one part. Foundersuite and Visible give you a CRM and investor updates. DocSend and Papermark track who opened your deck. OpenVC gives you a directory and a submit-deck gateway. Round Funded connects the benchmark to the send: read the funded decks, fix yours, then reach 60,000+ active investors with per-investor tracked links and see who actually read it.