12 decks below, from companies that actually closed the round. They raised between $100K and $135M, with a median of $1.1M. The decks span 2012 to 2020.
Most are Seed decks (6 of 12), most on a SaaS model, 6 selling B2C. Each entry carries the round, the investor and the year, so a deck can be read against what it was asking for.
Atexto
Atexto is a platform that allows enterprises to visualize, label, and collect speech data to improve their speech recognition models’ accuracy.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2C
Year: 2019
Round: $713K
Amount raised: $713K
Investor: VC, Accelerator
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Beatdapp
Beatdapp provides real-time tracking of media for brands and artists, helping them find up missing royalties.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2019
Round: $2.4M
Amount raised: $2.4M
Investor: VC
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Blue Wire
Blue Wire is a network of podcasters who cover the local sports scene in cities across the U.S.
Details of the startup:
Business model: Other
Customer: B2C
Year: 2020
Round: $135M
Amount raised: $135M
Investor: VC
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Connected2me
Connected2me is a free mobile app that allows users to chat, meet, and make friends anonymously.
Details of the startup:
Business model: App
Customer: C2C
Year: 2014
Round: $515K
Amount raised: $515K
Investor: Undisclosed
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Curio.io
Curio creates original audio stories from the world’s leading publications.
Details of the startup:
Business model: App
Customer: B2C
Year: 2020
Round: $9M
Amount raised: $9M
Investor: VC
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Deepgram
Deepgram has developed an automatic speech platform to simplify the arduous task of creating transcriptions.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2016
Round: $120K
Amount raised: $120K
Investor: Accelerator, VC, Corporate
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Hyphen
Hyphen is a voice and engagement platform for employees. It provides deep, personalized insights into individuals and helps organizations to better understand their workforce so that they can increase productivity and employee engagement.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2018
Round: $2.8M
Amount raised: $2.8M
Investor: VC
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Mycroft
Mycroft offers a suite of open source technologies to build platforms for voice-powered applications.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2016
Round: $350K
Amount raised: $350K · Investor: VC, Corporate
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Popup Archive
Pop Up Archive is a universal platform of tools created to help with the collection and organization of audio, video, photos, and text.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2C
Year: 2014
Round: $100K
Amount raised: $100K
Investor: Undisclosed
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Rapchat
Rapchat is the world’s easiest music creation studio. Record your voice, add a solo or a beat, and you’re done. Make songs on your phone with your friends, save them to your device, and share them across all of your social networks.
Details of the startup:
Business model: App
Customer: B2C
Year: 2015
Round: $125K
Amount raised: $125K
Investor: Undisclosed
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Spotify
Spotify is a premium streaming service that gives you on-demand access to millions of songs and the full lyrics catalog.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS, Subscription
Customer: B2C
Year: 2012
Round: $100M
Amount raised: $100M
Investor: Angel Investors
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Voxeet
Voxeet is helping power the future of communication by enabling crystal clear 3D surround sound, optimized for mobile users.
Details of the startup:
Business model: App
Customer: B2B
Year: 2014
Round: $1.5M
Amount raised: $1.5M
Investor: VC
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How to use these
Read them against your own raise rather than as templates. Match the deck whose round size and stage are closest to yours, then look at what it chose to prove first — the order of the argument matters more than the design.
The spread is the part worth noticing: the largest raise here is 1350x the smallest. Decks are not interchangeable across that range. A deck asking $100K is proving it can start; one asking $135M is proving it can scale, and the slides carry different weight.
The full library holds 492 decks filterable by sector, stage, round size, business model and customer type: browse the library. To get a read on your own deck, the analyzer returns the verdict five investors would give it.