7 decks below, from companies that actually closed the round. They raised between $300K and $43M, with a median of $1M. The decks span 2003 to 2019.
Most are Seed decks (2 of 7), most on a SaaS model, most selling B2B. Each entry carries the round, the investor and the year, so a deck can be read against what it was asking for.
ArangoDB
ArangoDB is a multi-model database that lets you natively work with graphs, documents and fulltext search.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2019
Round: $10M
Amount raised: $10M
Investor: Corporate, VC
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Binpress
Binpress helped developers build a business by working on open-source projects. It was acquired by CodersClan and shut down.
Details of the startup:
Business model: Marketplace
Customer: B2C
Year: 2013
Round: $1M
Amount raised: $1M
Investor: Undisclosed
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Cloudera
Cloudera is a data management software for enterprise companies.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2008
Round: $600K
Amount raised: $600K
Investor: VC, Corporate
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Kong
Kong is a service connectivity platform that provides the modern enterprise with on-demand services using today’s most popular cloud technologies.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2013
Round: $43M
Amount raised: $43M
Investor: Angel Investors, 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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MySQL
MySQL is a fast, reliable and flexible open-source database that supports sophisticated web-based or embedded database applications.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B
Year: 2003
Round: $16M
Amount raised: $16M
Investor: VC
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StackShare
StackShare is the way for developers to discover, connect, and learn from each other while building their careers.
Details of the startup:
Business model: SaaS
Customer: B2B, B2C
Year: 2015
Round: $300K
Amount raised: $300K
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 143x the smallest. Decks are not interchangeable across that range. A deck asking $300K is proving it can start; one asking $43M 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.