Demo day pitch deck: 6 slides, 3 minutes, traction-first
Demo day pitches are 3 minutes flat. 6 slides max. Traction-first (lead with the numbers, not the problem). Hook in 15 seconds. Ask + call-to-action at the end. SlideGMM generates the 6-slide structure that YC, Techstars, and 500 Startups demo days reward.
Frequently asked questions
Time + audience. Demo day: 3 minutes to 200 investors in a room. Normal meeting: 45 minutes to 2-3 partners. Demo day decks compress everything to 6 slides, lead with traction (the only signal that scales across 200 simultaneous decisions), and end with one clear ask.
6 slides typical: (1) hook + market size (2) what you do + traction (3) why now (4) team (5) ask (6) contact. The "what you do" slide is the most over-engineered — keep it to one sentence describing the product, not a feature list.
Only one number: latest MRR/ARR with growth rate (e.g. "$120K MRR, growing 35% MoM"). Full financials belong in follow-up meetings, not demo day. Investors filter on traction velocity, not detailed unit economics, at demo day.