How to build an investor pitch deck on Starch

An investor pitch deck is the document that stands between you and a term sheet. It's also one of the most time-consuming things a founder builds — not because the slides are hard, but because pulling together the underlying material is. You need current metrics, a credible growth story, a financial picture that reflects reality, and a narrative that holds together under pressure from someone who's seen five hundred of these.

What this looks like in practice varies: a SaaS founder needs ARR curves, churn, and net revenue retention; a CPG brand needs unit economics and retail velocity; a marketplace founder needs supply-side and demand-side metrics told as a single coherent story. The workflow is the same — collect the real numbers, build the narrative, make it visually credible — but the inputs are different depending on where your business actually runs.

On Starch, the pitch deck workflow starts from live data, not a spreadsheet you exported last Tuesday. Your actual MRR, burn rate, and runway are always current — pulled from Stripe and your bank accounts automatically. When you're ready to build, you describe the deck you need and Starch drafts the structure, populates the financial slides with real numbers, and formats everything into something a partner at a VC firm can read without squinting. The scenario modeling that backs up your financial projections is already built — you can show three fundraising timelines side by side without rebuilding the model each time. The output is a presentation you can export, a financial story you can defend, and a set of metrics you didn't have to chase down the morning of the meeting.