There are 6 pitch decks below from Buffer, Front, and Veeva. These are real pitch decks that these companies have used to raise capital. Later, they released these decks publicly after completing their raise.

Your task is to analyze these decks like a VC would have at the time that these decks were made, and decide whether you would invest in the startup or pass. You may want to use our VC Loves Game Framework (VCLG) that we covered in course 2 (to be uploaded soon) of the VC&E Specialization. Think about the 7 features of the framework: potential market size, go-to-market, differentiation, team, incumbent response, defensibility, and competition of the startup you are analyzing. Also think about any arbitrage or secret that you can identify that will convince you that there is a game to be played, or not.

Continue to the next video when you have given sufficient thought to all the 6 decks.
Expected reading time: 40 minutes.

Buffer's Seed Pitch Deck 2011 (archive link)
Buffer raised a $450k Seed in Dec 2011 with this deck
Front's Series A Pitch Deck 2016 (archive link)
Front raised a $10M Series A in 2016 with this deck
Front's Series B Pitch Deck 2018 (archive link)
Front raised a $66M Series B in Jan 2018 with this deck
Front's Series C Pitch Deck 2020 (archive link)
Front raised a $59M Series C in Jan 2020 with this deck
Front's Series D Pitch Deck 2022 (archive link)
Front raised a $65M Series D in Jun 2022 with this deck
Veeva's Post-IPO deck archive link
(link to the complete deck)