Source: Pitch Deck Teardown: Faye’s $10M Series A deck
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Faye, a travel insurance startup, raised $10 million through an impressive 19-slide pitch deck. Highlights include a well-constructed summary slide and a market size slide with excellent storytelling.
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💼 Faye hopes to be to travel insurance what Lemonade is to general insurance.
📊 Faye’s summary slide includes figures on traction, market penetration, market size, and market growth rate.
🎭 The team slide could be improved.
🌐 Faye’s market size slide provides context and shows a huge but easily disrupted market that could grow even bigger through international expansion and service offering.
👏 The deck is an excellent example of how to distill a complex story into an easy-to-follow narrative.
Source: Daylight’s sunset and Meta’s year of focus
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Equity covered Checkmate’s Series A, Cava’s IPO, Daylight’s closure, Soundcloud and Meta’s layoffs, as well as Anthropic’s $450M funding and AI war.
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Source: To avert more UK antitrust woes, Meta to limit how it uses ad data to boost Facebook Marketplace
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Meta could avoid regulatory action by giving guarantees that advertisers will be able to opt-out of their advertising data being leveraged to inform Facebook Marketplace product placement decisions. Ultimately, Meta is obliged to ensure that its Marketplace offering does not hinder competitors’ ads on the social network. The Competition and Markets Authority is expected to publish a provisional report on Meta in June.
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