Bench to Community Seminar - Series 2, Seminar 7: Developing a Pitch Deck

Raising outside investments and funds for your company often entails making a short but very important overview presentation to potential funders. Attendees will learn the fundamental information to present to investors on the company, technology innovation, development team, and market potential size.

Topics:

• Different “pitches” for different audiences

• Developing a 2-minute “elevator speech” for networking

• Composing an 8–11-minute slide presentation for funding competitions

• Basic slides: company information, technology innovation, development team, and market potential size, action plan and timeline, funding stages and requests

• What to do when asked for a follow-up meeting with interested investors