YC DEMO DAY PITCH TEMPLATE  ·  from Flowjam (flowjam.com)
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Two artifacts. Do not mix them up.

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PART 1 — THE ON-STAGE PITCH (6 slides, ~60 seconds)
Job: earn the follow-up email. Lead with traction.
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SLIDE 1 — HOOK + WHAT YOU DO
  "We're ______. We help ______ [do what] ______ [how much better]."

SLIDE 2 — TRACTION  (the slide that buys the rest)
  One number + growth: "$_____ MRR, growing ____% MoM."

SLIDE 3 — WHY NOW / MARKET
  Why possible today: ______
  How big: $______ (bottom-up)

SLIDE 4 — TEAM
  Why you win this: ______ (one credential per founder)

SLIDE 5 — THE ASK
  "Raising $______ to get to ______ [milestone]."

SLIDE 6 — CONTACT
  Name · Product · email@______   (never a bare "Thank you")

POWER MOVE: on slide 1 or 2, play a 10-15 second recorded clip
of the product actually working. It delivers the "aha" instantly.

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PART 2 — THE INVESTOR DECK (send after "tell me more", ~15 slides)
Job: earn the meeting.
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 1. Title        — company + one-line description + contact
 2. Problem      — the specific, expensive pain (who, what it costs)
 3. Solution     — one sentence, why it's 10x
 4. Demo/Product — show it (screens or short video)
 5. Traction     — revenue, growth, retention (up and to the right)
 6. Business model— how you make money + unit economics
 7. Market       — real bottom-up TAM
 8. Why now      — the shift that makes this the moment
 9. Competition  — honest landscape + your wedge
10. Go-to-market — repeatable, cheap acquisition
11-12. Team      — founder-market fit
13. Financials   — a sanity-checkable projection
14. The ask      — amount, what it buys, milestone
15. Appendix     — cohorts, metrics, extra proof

DESIGN RULES: one idea per slide · legible at 60pt · black on white ·
if your mouth and the slide say the same thing, cut one.