A pitch deck is usually a 10-20 slide presentation designed to give a short summary of your company, your business plan and your startup vision. A Pitch presentation deck also serve very different purposes, from trying to get a meeting with a new investor, to presenting in front of a stage, and each one of them should follow a different structure.

A number of authors, venture capitalists, startup founders and evangelists have created different versions of what they consider required elements to successful pitching presentations. Most of them agree on the following: