I see prices across the board, ranging from $500 to $5000+, and a lot of DIY options like Canva, but I want to make sure I am getting the right message and information across in a really good-looking presentation. Don’t want to miss anything before reaching out to investors.
A $20 asset library will get you something useably professional pretty quickly. If your team, vision, and early market validation are good enough, investors will forgive a some roughness. These are some good templates for ~$20: https://www.slidecow.com/
That gets you to 80/100.
We then hired professionals for $2000+ to polish it for a big pitch event. I hated spending that much, but the result was worth it. We would’ve looked amateurish next to the series A companies with truly professional decks.
That’s 98/100.
The best deck I’ve seen was made by former Apple designers and animators. Not worth it unless your company’s design skills are core to what you’re pitching.
The most important thing is that you have a graph that goes up and to the right. As long as it’s the right shape, it doesn’t matter if you made it with Google charts.