Pre-seed pitch deck: 9 slides for $250K-$2M friends-and-family + angel rounds
Pre-seed is the vision round — you don't have traction yet, so the deck leads with founder-market fit and market opportunity. 9-slide structure, narrative-heavy. SlideGMM generates the pre-seed framework first-time founders need.
Frequently asked questions
Founder-market fit, problem clarity, market size, and "why now." Pre-seed investors are buying you (the founder), not your company (no metrics yet). The team slide is the most important — it appears on slide 2-3, not slide 10. Tell your founding story up front.
9 slides. Cover, problem, solution, market, why now, team, vision (3-year), ask, contact. Pre-seed investors decide in 5-10 minutes, not 30. Shorter deck signals you can prioritize.
Skip them on the deck (they're fiction without traction). Keep a 3-year model in your appendix to show on request. Pre-seed checks ride on vision + founder; detailed financials read as overconfident.
Mostly. Friends-and-family decks can be lighter on market sizing (relationship-driven). Angel decks need stronger market opportunity + founder-market fit slides. SlideGMM's pre-seed template defaults to the angel structure — works for both.