7 decks below, from companies that actually closed the round. They raised between $100K and $100M, with a median of $900K. The decks span 2012 to 2021.
Most are Seed decks (4 of 7), most on a SaaS model, most selling B2C. Each entry carries the round, the investor and the year, so a deck can be read against what it was asking for.
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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Bohemian Guitars
Bohemian Guitars is a company that creates unique electric guitars and ukuleles out of unusual materials.
Details of the startup:
Business model: E-commerce
Customer: B2C
Year: 2014
Round: $100K
Amount raised: $100K
Investor: Undisclosed
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Chartmetric
Chartmetric helps the music industry make smarter and faster decisions by providing robust data, powerful visualisations, in-depth insights, unique tools, and rockstar customer service.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2021
Round: $2M
Amount raised: $2M
Investor: VC
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Feesheh
Feesheh offers a wide variety of musical instruments from leading brands.
Details of the startup:
Business model: E-commerce
Customer: B2C
Year: 2014
Round: $270K
Amount raised: $270K
Investor: VC
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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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Soundwave
Soundwave is a platform that provides comprehensive insights into listener behavior.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2C
Year: 2013
Round: $900K
Amount raised: $900K
Investor: VC
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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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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 1000x the smallest. Decks are not interchangeable across that range. A deck asking $100K is proving it can start; one asking $100M 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.