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Pitch deck service

The pitch deck the other side actually reads.

Pitch deck design, fund decks, real estate decks and M&A memos, built from the counterparty’s seat by the firm that then takes them to market.

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Niclas Schlopsna, Managing Partner at spectup
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spectup’s track record

4.9 / 5 Top Capital Market Consulting Company 2026
17 verified Clutch reviews
Raised, placed and advisedacross pitch, fund, real estate and M&A documents$760M+
Decks createdfor companies, funds and dealmakers50+
Decks reviewedwhich is where everything on this page comes from500+
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Four documents leave our pitch deck agency: pitch decks, fund decks, real estate decks and M&A memos

The craft behind all four is the same, and our pitch deck services cover every one. What changes is who reads the document and what they are deciding when they do.

Read by An investment committee

Growth equity and later. They read it without you in the room, then argue about it on Monday.

Read by An allocator

Strategy, attribution, portfolio construction. Yours arrives in a queue of decks that all promise the same thing.

Read by A credit committee

Underwriting, comparables, the exit. Every number is checked against their own model.

Read by A buyer

Positioning and normalised financials, written for a strategic and a sponsor at once.

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The investor presentations our pitch deck agency built, slide by slide

Pick a client and walk through the deck they took to market. These are the files investors opened, at full size.

Sleepless Studios pitch deck

Sleepless Studios

A studio's capacity and pipeline, made legible to a financial buyer.

IndustryCoworking Raised$3M
ARYA pitch deck

ARYA

A coordination layer explained to a generalist committee without jargon.

IndustryAI Raised$5M
Aimable pitch deck

Aimable

A consumer product whose retention curve was the entire argument.

IndustryConsumer Raised$1.5M Seed
VoteClash pitch deck

VoteClash

A tournament turned into a category, for a committee that had never bought live interaction.

IndustryLive streaming Raised$7M Seed
Roman AI pitch deck

Roman AI

Sixty days of revenue made to carry the weight the round needed it to carry.

IndustryAI Raised$2M Seed
Plift pitch deck

Plift

A THC soda brand argued the case on shelf economics.

IndustryBeverages Raised$4.5M Series A
Scensai pitch deck

Scensai

A sensor that reads a cask in seconds, put to a room of investors as a category rather than a device.

IndustrySpirits, hardware StageUniversity spinout

Every deck on this page was written, sized and designed by the same desk you would be sitting with. Yours would be too.

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The order matters: pitch deck design services in four layers

Strategy, story, research, design, always in that order. Our pitch deck consulting services put one owner on each layer, and you meet all four. Three weeks end to end.

Layer 01

Strategy

What is being sold, to whom, on what terms. Decided from the counterparty's side first: what would make a committee say yes, and whether this transaction has it.

Niclas Schlopsna, Managing Partner at spectup
Niclas SchlopsnaManaging Partner

Your first contact, and the one who decides whether we take the mandate at all. Previously N26, BMW Startup Garage and Deloitte.

Layer 02

Story

The argument the counterparty repeats internally when you are not in the room. Written as prose and agreed before anything is designed.

Edwin Mik, Partner and Head of Investor Relations at spectup
Edwin MikPartner

Leads the equity story. Previously Barclays, Apax Partners and Euronext.

Layer 03

Research

Sizing bottom up, a competitive map naming the real alternatives, and macro context with a source behind every number, because the committee will check.

Igor Bystrov, finance and research at spectup
Igor BystrovFinance and research

Structured finance leader with Santander and Sberbank pedigree. Makes complex capital flows simple, shaping stories that get deals across the line.

Layer 04

Design

Typography, charts and pacing built for a fifteen-minute meeting and for the PDF that gets forwarded afterwards. Design last, because design cannot fix an argument.

Rezka Endarto, design lead at spectup
Rezka EndartoDesign lead

Award-winning designer, in-house. Every deck is drawn by him, never briefed out and never templated.

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AI can write your pitch deck. It cannot get you the meeting.

A generated deck reads as though nobody in particular wrote it. That is the whole problem, because the meeting is granted to a person with a view.
Which is why our pitch deck services begin with the argument a reader has to repeat, and not with the slides.
Generated, and it shows
Market Opportunity

Revolutionizing the future of digital engagement

  • Leveraging cutting-edge technology to seamlessly transform the industry landscape
  • $10B TAM growing at 25% CAGR
  • First-mover advantage in a rapidly evolving market
No source, no date, no arithmetic
  1. A verb describing no action. Delete it and the sentence survives. That is the test.
  2. Adjectives where a number belongs. Nothing the reader can check, so they discount it.
  3. A market size with no arithmetic under it. A round number from a report.
  4. True of every company in the round. It distinguishes nothing.
Built with spectup
Slides from the VoteClash deck built by spectup
CompanyVoteClash
SectorLive streaming, consumer
What it had to doTurn one tournament into a category
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How a pitch story works

01Somewhere in Michoacán, a grower has four hundred hectares of avocado trees.

02Every one of them is picked by hand, from a ladder, by someone who has to climb it.

03Ripeness cannot be measured from the ground. It is a judgement made by a thumb.

04At that scale the judgement has to be made eleven million times a season.

05So a soft gripper learns the same judgement, and makes it without tiring.

06The fruit reaches the packhouse unbruised, and the loss rate stops being a cost of doing business.

07And in a room like this, someone decides whether any of that is worth funding.

Skip the story

You followed all of that, and nobody explained any of it. That is what a deck has to do, and it is the only thing we are really selling.

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Every number our pitch deck consulting service puts on a slide can be taken apart

Our consultants run the research, on paid databases we license, and it is covered by the engagement. Every figure carries its source, and anything we cannot stand up twice is cut.

What the desk pulls from

  • Paid market databasesSizing, growth and segmentation, under our subscriptions
  • Transaction and funding dataWhat comparable companies raised, from whom, at what
  • Filings and regulatory sourcesRead at source, never through a secondary summary
  • Your own numbersContracts, cohorts and unit economics, rebuilt from raw
Total market where you sell Two licensed sizing databases100% The segment that can actually buy Filings and registry counts61% Reachable inside the plan period Your coverage and capacity38% Held today Your contracts14%

Built from two licensed databases reconciled against each other, then narrowed by your own numbers. Where the two disagree the deck carries the lower figure and names which one it came from. Each layer is sourced on its own, so a reader can reject one and keep the rest.

How much of the job it does What it costs the buyer Doing nothing This company

Built from pricing we can evidence: signed contracts where they exist, list prices where they do not, marked either way. Two axes every buyer decides on, whatever the sector. Doing nothing is plotted, because it is the alternative most decks leave off and the one that wins most often.

RoundMedian raised Median pre-moneyIn the set
Seed$3.1M$12.0M34
Series A$11.4M$46.0M21
Series B$28.0M$132.0M9

Built from a licensed transaction database, cut to rounds that actually closed in your sector and geography inside the last eighteen months. The count sits beside each median so a reader can see where the set is thin, and the ask on your slide is set against it.

The dated change

Built from the published series either side of the thing that changed, whether that is a rule, a price crossing a threshold or a platform shift. The timing claim then rests on a dated event a reader can look up, with the series showing what it did.

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Pitch deck design services: we build the style guide, or we build on yours

Three examples, one per sector, because a deck read by engineers cannot be set like a deck read on a phone. Type, palette, grid, charts, components and slide furniture, decided once and then held across every page.

Deep tech, Series B. Read by engineers before it reaches the partner. Grotesque at two weights, a ruled ledger, every figure carrying its tolerance and its source. Consumer, Series A. Read on a phone in ninety seconds. Warm ground, one hot accent, type set huge, a single figure per page doing the arguing. Energy infrastructure, project finance. Read alongside a model. Monospace throughout, dense modules, units on everything, no rounding.

Grid North
00 / PLATE
MONOCHROME. PLANT AND LINE ONLY. NO SKY.
01 / READOUT
  • CAP412MWunder contract
  • CF41.2%capacity factor, P50
  • PPA18yrweighted term
  • AVL97.4%availability
  • CUR2.1%curtailment
  • LCOE38/MWhlevelised cost
02 / TYPE Aa

SF MONO 500 / 400
44/52 · TRACKING −0.8%
LABELS ALWAYS UPPER

03 / PALETTE
  • #061F1AGROUND
  • #0F3F35MODULE
  • #22957BSERIES
  • #F2A93BFLAG
  • #CFE6DFTYPE
04 / DOT PLOT ONE DOT PER UNIT. NO BARS. NO GRIDLINES.
05 / ICONS
  • GAUGE
  • BUS
  • CELL
  • LOAD
06 / CONTROLS
[ RUN ] [ RESET ] VALUE ________
16 COL · 12PT GUTTER · 2PX RADIUS MAX
Ferment
The habit They come
back on
their own
Image direction: warm, close, human, always in use
62% still here at day 90 One figure per page. Never a decimal on a slide.
Type Aa

Helvetica Now Display 700
Caps, tracking −2.8%, 72/68. One weight only, set enormous.

Palette
Ink#12100E Primary#E8452A Support#FFC24A Surface#FFF1E6
Icons
  • Repeat
  • Basket
  • Spark
  • Heart
Solid, rounded, 24px box. No outlines.
Components
Get started See how New
Full pill. 6 columns, 40pt gutter, images full bleed.
Meridian
Type Aa
  • 64/68DisplayInter Display 600
  • 34/40HeadingInter Display 600
  • 17/26BodyInter Text 450
  • 10/14CaptionInter Text 500, +16 tracking
Applied
Market · 04 Throughput per line, against the tolerance the buyer specifies
1,840/hrunits per line±0.4%
31%lower cost per unit±1.2%
18moto qualified volume±2mo
Source: line trials, Mar 2026, n=11 runs
Palette
  • Ink#0D1524Type and rules
  • Primary#20355CFills and headers
  • Support#4C6EA8One series only
  • Surface#C6D2E6Slide ground
Image direction
Machined detail, raking light, no people, no stock
Charts Columns, one series, error bar on every bar
Icons
  • Crosshair
  • Caliper
  • Node
  • Signal
1.5px stroke, square cap, 24px box, never filled
Components
Primary Secondary Series B
12 columns · 24pt gutter · 56pt marginNo radius. 1px hairline, 100% or 14% ink.

That is the whole method: strategy, story, research and design, run by the four people you just met.

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Three ways to buy pitch deck services, and what each costs you

A design-only agency, a freelance designer, or a pitch deck agency that also runs the raise. The differences are structural, so you can see which one fits your round.

 
spectup
Design-only agency
Freelance designer
Who does the work
spectupFundraisers who have run rounds, on your deck directly.
Design-only agencyA designer briefed by an account manager.
Freelance designerOne freelancer, whatever their background is.
What they change
spectupPositioning, story, sizing, then the slides.
Design-only agencyThe slides.
Freelance designerThe slides, faster.
Where the numbers come from
spectupResearch we run and can source, line by line.
Design-only agencyWhatever you supply.
Freelance designerWhatever you supply.
After delivery
spectupWe take it to investors ourselves.
Design-only agencyThe engagement ends.
Freelance designerThe engagement ends.
Who carries the outcome
spectupWe are in the room when it is read.
Design-only agencyNobody.
Freelance designerNobody.

Not sure which of the three you need? That is what the first call is for.

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What clients say about spectup once the deck went to market

Paula Anselmi, Co-Founder and CEO of KLAYD, a spectup pitch deck client
“They helped us crystalize our message and structure complex info in a way that clicked with investors.”
Paula AnselmiCo-Founder & CEOKLAYD
4.9 / 5 Top Capital Market Consulting Company 2026
17 verified Clutch reviews
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“What stood out most was the strength of the team and how quickly they understood our business.”
Mike BillingsleyExecutive · OnePulseAdvertising and marketingOnePulse pitch deck cover slide by spectup: consumer insights platform built on generative AI
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“That level of commitment and care set them apart from other firms we have worked with.”
Kristian WrightCEO · enhanced.ioCybersecurityenhanced.io pitch deck cover slide by spectup: full spectrum cybersecurity protection for managed service providers
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“spectup’s dedication to really understanding our specific business and plan was commendable.”
Alvaro SalazarSenior Product Manager · EvencoSoftwareEvenco Analytics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: AI-driven fund flow prediction for asset managers
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“spectup not only offered us more bespoke options but also provided candid advice.”
Head of Technology and InnovationGORDResearch and development, QatarGORD pitch deck cover slide by spectup: Synergia patented cooling system for a climate-resilient future
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“What really impressed me was their reliability.”
Elena DangCEO and Founder · POSTHUMAN3D-printed accessoriesPOSTHUMAN pitch deck cover slide by spectup: 3D printed neo-future accessories and jewellery brand
Trustpilot
“great design for reasonable cost”
Charles ColtmanChief Product Officer · HealthAgentHealthcare voice AIHealthAgent pitch deck cover slide by spectup: intelligent voice assistant connecting modern healthcare
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“They kept the project moving by constantly contacting us.”
Doctoral ResearcherCemDynamicsMaterials research, GORD spinoutCemDynamics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: accelerating cement towards a low-carbon future
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“What stood out most was the strength of the team and how quickly they understood our business.”
Mike BillingsleyExecutive · OnePulseAdvertising and marketingOnePulse pitch deck cover slide by spectup: consumer insights platform built on generative AI
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“That level of commitment and care set them apart from other firms we have worked with.”
Kristian WrightCEO · enhanced.ioCybersecurityenhanced.io pitch deck cover slide by spectup: full spectrum cybersecurity protection for managed service providers
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“spectup’s dedication to really understanding our specific business and plan was commendable.”
Alvaro SalazarSenior Product Manager · EvencoSoftwareEvenco Analytics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: AI-driven fund flow prediction for asset managers
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“spectup not only offered us more bespoke options but also provided candid advice.”
Head of Technology and InnovationGORDResearch and development, QatarGORD pitch deck cover slide by spectup: Synergia patented cooling system for a climate-resilient future
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“What really impressed me was their reliability.”
Elena DangCEO and Founder · POSTHUMAN3D-printed accessoriesPOSTHUMAN pitch deck cover slide by spectup: 3D printed neo-future accessories and jewellery brand
Trustpilot
“great design for reasonable cost”
Charles ColtmanChief Product Officer · HealthAgentHealthcare voice AIHealthAgent pitch deck cover slide by spectup: intelligent voice assistant connecting modern healthcare
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“They kept the project moving by constantly contacting us.”
Doctoral ResearcherCemDynamicsMaterials research, GORD spinoutCemDynamics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: accelerating cement towards a low-carbon future
Direct
“Investors told us this deck is too good, and that they were worried we should be spending more time building the business.”
Thomas CramptonFounder and CEO · Sleepless StudiosCreative studiosSleepless Studios investor pitch deck cover slide by spectup: 24/7 creative studios for musicians and producers
Direct
“Just wanted to thank you again for the great materials spectup provided. Both decks look great.”
Rudy EcheniqueDirector of Operations · Sensate RoboticsIndustrial roboticsSensate Robotics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: robotic gripper automating quality-sensitive production stages
Direct
“The pitch went really well today. It honestly couldn’t have gone any better. Wouldn’t have been possible without you guys.”
Dr. Ammar ElhowerisCommercial Lead · ScensaiSpirits sensing, University of Aberdeen spinoutScensai pitch deck cover slide by spectup: a sensor that reads a maturing cask in seconds
Trustpilot
“We were so impressed with how fast they understood our complex needs and turned them into simple, elegant documents.”
Serhan BaharCo-Founder · LongevitrackConsumer SaaSLongevitrack seed round pitch deck cover slide by spectup: daily longevity and health tracking app
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“The quality of the work produced was excellent. The timeframe for delivery was fast and the cost was very reasonable.”
Dom GattellariCo-Founder · ContractableConstruction softwareContractable investor deck cover slide by spectup: finance and operations platform for profitable construction projects
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“spectup was very knowledgeable and able to get us what we needed.”
Camilla WieseCo-Founder · y2kVintage fashiony2k pitch deck cover slide by spectup: curation, scale and strategy in vintage fashion wholesale
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“Their consultative approach was a big help for us.”
Shun DorseyFounder and CEO · BeamPayFinancial servicesBeamPay pitch deck cover slide by spectup: mobile payments app to pay anyone, anywhere, anytime
Direct
“Investors told us this deck is too good, and that they were worried we should be spending more time building the business.”
Thomas CramptonFounder and CEO · Sleepless StudiosCreative studiosSleepless Studios investor pitch deck cover slide by spectup: 24/7 creative studios for musicians and producers
Direct
“Just wanted to thank you again for the great materials spectup provided. Both decks look great.”
Rudy EcheniqueDirector of Operations · Sensate RoboticsIndustrial roboticsSensate Robotics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: robotic gripper automating quality-sensitive production stages
Direct
“The pitch went really well today. It honestly couldn’t have gone any better. Wouldn’t have been possible without you guys.”
Dr. Ammar ElhowerisCommercial Lead · ScensaiSpirits sensing, University of Aberdeen spinoutScensai pitch deck cover slide by spectup: a sensor that reads a maturing cask in seconds
Trustpilot
“We were so impressed with how fast they understood our complex needs and turned them into simple, elegant documents.”
Serhan BaharCo-Founder · LongevitrackConsumer SaaSLongevitrack seed round pitch deck cover slide by spectup: daily longevity and health tracking app
Clutch
“The quality of the work produced was excellent. The timeframe for delivery was fast and the cost was very reasonable.”
Dom GattellariCo-Founder · ContractableConstruction softwareContractable investor deck cover slide by spectup: finance and operations platform for profitable construction projects
Clutch
“spectup was very knowledgeable and able to get us what we needed.”
Camilla WieseCo-Founder · y2kVintage fashiony2k pitch deck cover slide by spectup: curation, scale and strategy in vintage fashion wholesale
Clutch
“Their consultative approach was a big help for us.”
Shun DorseyFounder and CEO · BeamPayFinancial servicesBeamPay pitch deck cover slide by spectup: mobile payments app to pay anyone, anywhere, anytime

Where to go next

A deck is what an investor reads. These are the mandates that put it in front of the right ones, and the desk that runs a transaction instead of a raise.

Investor materials being built
The whole raise Startup fundraising consultant Positioning, materials, targeting and the process, run end to end. Startup fundraising consultant
An investor approach under way
The approach itself Investor outreach Targeting, the approach and the pipeline, once the materials are ready. Investor outreach
A counterparty approached about a transaction
Buying or selling instead M&A advisory Buy-side and sell-side mandates, for a company whose next step is a transaction. M&A advisory
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Pitch deck questions we answer on every first call

What companies ask before they hand over a deck.

01How much does a pitch deck cost?

It depends on how much of the work is thinking and how much is drawing. A deck where the positioning, equity story and market research are already settled costs a fraction of one where they are not, because the slides are the last step of a longer job. We scope it against the round you are raising and the reader you are raising from, and quote a fixed fee before anything starts, so there is no hourly meter. If a template and an afternoon would get you there, we will say so on the first call.

02How do we start working together?

You request a call. We spend about twenty minutes getting to know each other, the round you are raising, the timing and who has to say yes. If there is a deck already you can share it after that call, so we read it knowing what it has to do. Then we send a proposal with the scope, a fixed fee and the three week timeline. Nothing is chargeable before you accept it.

03What do your pitch deck consulting services include?

Positioning, the equity story, the market research and the design, in that order, with one owner on each. That is the difference between pitch deck consulting services and a design job: we decide what the document has to argue before anyone opens a drawing tool, and we can defend every figure in it. If you only need the drawing, we will say so and quote for that instead.

04What makes spectup different from a typical pitch deck design agency?

A design agency changes the slides. spectup changes the argument and then the slides: positioning, equity story and market research come first, and the design is built to carry them. The people doing it have run rounds, so the deck is built for the meeting it has to survive.

05What is an equity story and why does it matter?

An equity story is the argument an investor repeats to their partners when you are not in the room, and it is what an investor deck is built to carry: why this market, why this team, why now, and what the money buys. A deck without one can look excellent and still fail, because the reader has nothing to carry into the investment committee.

06What does your market research actually cover?

Market sizing built bottom up from real customers and prices, a competitive map naming the alternatives a buyer genuinely considers including doing nothing, macro context with a source behind each number, and go-to-market input on the channel economics the round is meant to fund.

07In what formats do you deliver the deck?

An editable source file in the tool you work in, a PDF built for forwarding, and the research appendix. You own all of it.

08How long does a pitch deck take?

Three weeks end to end, and the proposal states it before anything starts. Roughly three days on strategy, four on the story, five on research and seven on design. Design is last and longest because it can only carry an argument that already exists, so the weeks before it are what make it quick.

09Do you work with companies outside Europe raising in the US?

Yes. spectup is based in Munich and raises from investors in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. A European company raising from US funds is the most common shape of engagement, and the deck is built for the market the capital is coming from.

10Can you just design a deck we have already written?

Sometimes, and we will say so on the first call. If the positioning holds up, design alone is honest work. If it does not, a better-looking deck is only harder to argue with.

11What else does spectup do beyond pitch decks?

It is a capital advisory firm. Alongside deck work it runs full raises as a startup fundraising consultant and acts as private placement agent.

Not covered here? Send it and we will answer it on the call.

Ask us something else
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Find out what your deck is missing before you spend on it.

Twenty minutes on the round, the reader and the document. No deck needed to start.

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Twenty minutes on the round and the reader

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You share the deck, if there is one

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A proposal: scope, fixed fee, three weeks