Deep Tech Pitch Deck Design
Your deck has ten minutes. The diligence call has two hours.
Investor and sales decks for hardware, semiconductor, energy and biotech companies. The deck has to survive a generalist partner on Monday and the technical diligence that follows, and most decks are built for only one of them.
In short
Answer summary- Who is it for?
- Deep tech founders raising a seed, Series A or Series B, and teams building sales or tender decks.
- What goes wrong?
- A deck that wins the meeting can lose the diligence, because the two audiences need different things.
- What do you get?
- Investor deck, technical appendix, sales and tender version, mechanism diagrams, data visualisation, editable master.
- How long does it take?
- Two to four weeks on its own, faster where the positioning already exists.
A deck that wins the meeting can lose the diligence.
Four reasons deep tech decks fail that a SaaS deck never has to solve.
- →The audience splits in half. A generalist partner needs the market in three slides. The technical partner brought in later needs the mechanism to hold up. One deck has to do both, and simplifying for the first usually breaks the second.
- →The mechanism is invisible. You cannot photograph a retimer, a molten salt loop or a state-of-health model. The thing that makes you different has to be drawn, and a stock diagram of a cloud with arrows is not a drawing of your advantage.
- →The numbers are the argument. Picojoules per bit, cycle life, capture cost per tonne. A designer who treats those as decoration will centre them at 40pt and lose the reader who came to check them.
- →The category has no box. Comparables decide the multiple. If your deck does not say which lane you are in, the room picks one for you, and it is usually the cheaper one.
Six deliverables, one price.
Seed through Series B. The narrative arc, the mechanism slides, the market frame and the ask.
The slides the diligence call actually opens. Built to be read by someone qualified to disagree.
The version that goes to a buyer or a procurement panel rather than an investor.
Custom, drawn from your spec or CAD, not stock iconography.
Your figures, plotted so the significance is legible to a non-specialist and honest to a specialist.
In your tooling, so the deck stays current after we leave.
Where this has already run.
Raised and on a growth path.
Advanced nuclear reactors engineered and built in India, for sovereign and reliable clean power.
The argument, at length.
Questions we get about this.
Do you write the deck or just design it?
Both, and the writing is the larger half. A deck that is beautifully set and argues badly is a worse deck than an ugly one that argues well.
Can you work from our existing deck?
Usually. If the position is settled and the problem is that the deck does not land, that is a rebuild of the argument on top of what you have. If the position is not settled, the deck is not the first problem.
Who checks the technical slides?
Your engineers, before anything is designed. Same review stage as a film. A wrong figure in a deck is caught in the room it was meant to win.
How long does a deck take?
Two to four weeks on its own. Faster when the positioning already exists, because most of the time goes into the argument rather than the layout.
Do you sign an NDA first?
Yes, and it is the normal starting point. Most of what a deep tech deck contains is unannounced.
The rest of the stack.
Send us the deck and the spec sheet.
Thirty minutes, no deck from us. We will tell you which category you are being read into and what we would change first.
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