Fundraising Deck Teardown: What Sequoia Actually Looks For
Reverse-engineered the evaluation criteria from 20 Sequoia-backed seed decks, with concrete slide-by-slide guidance.
Fundraising Deck Teardown: What Sequoia Actually Looks For
The 10-Slide Framework
Slide 1: Title + One-Liner
"We help [audience] do [thing] by [mechanism]." If you can't say it in one sentence, you don't understand your product.
Slide 2: Problem
Show the problem with DATA, not anecdotes. "87% of engineering teams spend >20hrs/week on manual deployments" beats "Deployments are hard."
Slide 3: Solution
Demo > screenshots > description. Show, don't tell. 30-second video is idea