Why create an Edtech or e-Learning pitch deck?
Startups that are involved in the education and e-Learning space operate within a highly-competitive, rapidly-growing industry. There is one thing that all successful EdTech and e-Learning startups have in common: they once were no-names who had to pitch their ideas to investors or partners.
If you are not sure where to start, here are a few pitch decks from successful EdTech and education companies that you should check out:
What are examples of successful education pitch decks?
30+ pitch decks that helped raise millions of dollars for EdTech startups:
1) Baby Sparks
2) Floqq
3) CareLuLu
4) Linguatrip
5) Transtutors
6) ActivityHero
7) CloudAcademy
8) Yellowdig
9) StudySoup
10) Option Alpha
11) Blue Studios
12) AceUp
13) Almabase
14) Bohemian Guitars
15) Cirrus Identity
16) Clanbeat
17) Crash
18) CultureAlley
19) Curious Hat
20) EADBOX
21) Feast
22) Funderful
23) Holloway
24) Kibin
25) Kite readers
26) Next Play
27) Nurse Versity
28) Prolaera
29) PupBox
30) QualSights (formerly Georama)
31) Roam and Wander
32) School Admissions
33) uguru.me
You’re an entrepreneur with a great idea seeking capital. You want to find investors to partner with your education company but you’re not sure how to write the perfect pitch deck. Look no further. This list has over thirty pitch decks from leading names in the EdTech and e-Learning space like StudySoup and Feast, or see them all here. These decks are perfect for learning more about what makes an effective pitch deck and how to create your own. When pitching your company to an investor, the deck you present is a vital part of the conversation. Use these 30+ winning pitch deck examples as inspiration when crafting your investor presentation.
1. Baby Sparks Pitch Deck
Year: 2019 • Amount: $2M • Round: Seed
BabySparks is a provider of programs designed to help parents enrich the cognitive, language, and motor skills of their children.
About Baby Sparks
- Product Type: App
- Business Model: B2C
About the Baby Sparks Deck
- Funding Year: 2019
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $2M
- Investor Type: VC
2. Floqq Pitch Deck
Year: 2019 • Amount: €1.1M • Round: Series A
Floqq is Latin America’s biggest marketplace for online video courses. It brings together the best content creators into one single place.
About Floqq
- Product Type: Marketplace
- Business Model: B2C
About the Floqq Deck
- Funding Year: 2019
- Funding Round: Series A
- Funding Raised: €1.1M
- Investor Type: Unknown
3. CareLuLu Pitch Deck
Year: 2019 • Amount: $1.7M • Round: Seed
CareLuLu is a website that provides parents with daycare and preschool options in their area.
About CareLuLu
- Product Type: Marketplace
- Business Model: C2C
About the CareLuLu Deck
- Funding Year: 2019
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $1.7M
- Investor Type: VC
4. Linguatrip Pitch Deck
Year: 2019 • Amount: Undisclosed • Round: Pre-Seed
LinguaTrip is a travel agency for language courses around the globe and student accommodation.
About Linguatrip
- Product Type: Marketplace
- Business Model: C2C
About the Linguatrip Deck
- Funding Year: 2019
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Funding Raised: Undisclosed
- Investor Type: Unknown
5. Transtutors Pitch Deck
Year: 2019 • Amount: $125K • Round: Pre-Seed
Transtutors help students improve their skills in various subject areas by providing online tutors to help them solve their problems and complete assignments.
About Transtutors
- Product Type: Marketplace
- Business Model: C2C
About the Transtutors Deck
- Funding Year: 2019
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Funding Raised: $125K
- Investor Type: VC
6. ActivityHero Pitch Deck
Year: 2018 • Amount: $2.2M • Round: Seed
ActivityHero is a marketplace where parents can find camps and classes for their kids.
About ActivityHero
- Product Type: Marketplace
- Business Model: B2C
About the ActivityHero Deck
- Funding Year: 2018
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $2.2M
- Investor Type: VC
7. CloudAcademy Pitch Deck
Year: 2018 • Amount: $100K • Round: Seed
Cloud Academy provides training, tools, and infrastructure for companies to overcome the challenges of cloud technologies.
About CloudAcademy
- Product Type: SaaS
- Business Model: B2B
About the CloudAcademy Deck
- Funding Year: 2018
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $100K
- Investor Type: VC
8. Yellowdig Pitch Deck
Year: 2017 • Amount: $100K • Round: Pre-Seed
Yellowdig is an online learning platform that fosters peer-driven learning, promotes collaboration, and rewards knowledge acquisition through gamification techniques and data science.
About Yellowdig
- Product Type: SaaS
- Business Model: B2B2C
About the Yellowdig Deck
- Funding Year: 2017
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Funding Raised: $100K
- Investor Type: VC
9. StudySoup Pitch Deck
Year: 2017 • Amount: $300K • Round: Seed
StudySoup is a community where students can share and exchange lecture notes with each other.
About StudySoup
- Product Type: Marketplace
- Business Model: C2C
About the StudySoup Deck
- Funding Year: 2017
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $300K
- Investor Type: VC
10. Option Alpha Pitch Deck
Year: 2016 • Amount: Undisclosed • Round: Seed
Option Alpha offers education, coaching, and software to help options traders make smarter, more profitable trades.
About Option Alpha
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2C
About the Option Alpha Deck
- Funding Year: 2016
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: Undisclosed
- Investor Type: Unknown
11. Blue Studios Pitch Deck
Year: 2016 • Amount: $150K • Round: Pre-Seed
Blue Studios is a live-streaming platform, delivering engaging and educational classes for kids of all ages.
About Blue Studios
- Product Type: Subscription
- Business Model: B2C
About the Blue Studios Deck
- Funding Year: 2016
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Funding Raised: $150K
- Investor Type: VC, Accelerator
12. AceUp Pitch Deck
Year: 2016 • Amount: $1.7M • Round: Seed
AceUp offers a strong foundation for emerging and seasoned leaders to overcome real-world professional challenges.
About AceUp
- Product Type: SaaS
- Business Model: B2B
About the AceUp Deck
- Funding Year: 2016
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $1.7M
- Investor Type: VC
13. Almabase Pitch Deck
Year: 2015 • Amount: $100K • Round: Debt Financing
Almabase is a platform that streamlines your alumni engagement and fundraising efforts.
About Almabase
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Almabase Deck
- Funding Year: 2015
- Funding Round: Debt Financing
- Funding Raised: $100K
- Investor Type:
14. Bohemian Guitars Pitch Deck
Year: 2015 • Amount: $100K • Round: Seed
Free-spirited music lifestyle brand
Bohemian Guitars is a company that makes custom electric guitars and ukuleles using unconventional materials.
As being one of the batch team members of 500 Startups, Bohemian Guitars was able to raise $100K from the accelerator and 2 other investors in 2014.
About Bohemian Guitars
- Product Type: E-commerce
- Business Model: B2C
About the Bohemian Guitars Deck
- Funding Year: 2015
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $100K
- Investor Type:
15. Cirrus Identity Pitch Deck
Year: 2015 • Amount: $460K • Round: Seed
Cirrus Identity is a hosted software that helps businesses manage user identity.
About Cirrus Identity
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Cirrus Identity Deck
- Funding Year: 2015
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $460K
- Investor Type:
16. Clanbeat Pitch Deck
Year: 2015 • Amount: $1.2M • Round: Seed
Clanbeat provides personalized growth support to help people discover their true passions, achieve their goals and shape their own future.
About Clanbeat
- Product Type: SaaS
- Business Model: B2B
About the Clanbeat Deck
- Funding Year: 2015
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $1.2M
- Investor Type:
17. Crash Pitch Deck
Year: 2015 • Amount: $1.1M • Round: Seed
Crash is a career launch platform that helps young professionals to showcase their talent.
Crash is a job hunting platform that helps young professionals showcase their talent and launch into the best early career opportunities.
Crash raised $150K from 500 Startups in 2019 using this pitch deck.
About Crash
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Crash Deck
- Funding Year: 2015
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $1.1M
- Investor Type:
18. CultureAlley Pitch Deck
Year: 2015 • Amount: $6.5M • Round: Series A
CultureAlley offers self-paced audio-visual lessons and interactive practice exercises online.
CultureAlley is a platform that provides Spanish lessons for free and allows users to study using self-paced audio and video lessons and interactive practice exercises.
CultureAlley is a browser extension that has over 400,000 users in 220 countries.
Using this pitch deck, CultureAlley raised $6.5M in funding from Tiger Global Management, Kee Capital and 500 Startups.
About CultureAlley
- Product Type: App
- Business Model: B2B
About the CultureAlley Deck
- Funding Year: 2015
- Funding Round: Series A
- Funding Raised: $6.5M
- Investor Type:
19. Curious Hat Pitch Deck
Year: 2014 • Amount: Undisclosed • Round: Seed
Curious Hat develops and distributes educational mobile applications for children on iOS platforms.
Curious Hat creates an educational mobile applications to engage children and simulate their creativity to explore and learn about the world around them.
Using this pitch deck, Curious Hat has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from 500 Startups in 2012.
About Curious Hat
- Product Type: App
- Business Model: B2B
About the Curious Hat Deck
- Funding Year: 2014
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: Undisclosed
- Investor Type:
20. EADBOX Pitch Deck
Year: 2014 • Amount: R$4M • Round: Undisclosed
Eadbox is a platform used by education entrepreneurs to create and sell online courses in their own website.
EADBOX is a Brazilian company that’s used by entrepreneurs to create and sell online education courses to large audiences. Thousands of authors teach millions of students on EADBOX on a daily basis.
EADBOX has raised a total of $1.5M in funding from Bzplan and Wayra between 2012 and 2017.
About EADBOX
- Product Type: SaaS
- Business Model: B2B
About the EADBOX Deck
- Funding Year: 2014
- Funding Round: Undisclosed
- Funding Raised: R$4M
- Investor Type:
21. Feast Pitch Deck
Year: 2014 • Amount: Undisclosed • Round: Seed
Learning how to cook is stressful. It shouldn’t be. Start learning for free at http://letsfea.st
Feast is a platform that teaches how to cook by providing cooking classes.
Using this pitch deck, Feast raised an undisclosed amount from 500 Startups in 2013.
About Feast
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Feast Deck
- Funding Year: 2014
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: Undisclosed
- Investor Type:
22. Funderful Pitch Deck
Year: 2014 • Amount: €150K • Round: Seed
Funderful is pioneering chatbots in Higher Education
Funderful is a fundraising platform that helps universities manage and grow their alumni giving programs.
Funderful has partnered with Georgetown, West Point, Pomona College and other institutions who saw an increase of 80% open rates and 10X better click through Facebook Messenger.
This pitch deck was used to raise its seed funding from 500 Startups in 2017.
About Funderful
- Product Type: SaaS
- Business Model: B2B
About the Funderful Deck
- Funding Year: 2014
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: €150K
- Investor Type:
23. Holloway Pitch Deck
Year: 2014 • Amount: $4.6M • Round: Seed
Holloway’s Guides are a long-established series of books, written by expert authors, to help you learn whatever you want to know.
About Holloway
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Holloway Deck
- Funding Year: 2014
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $4.6M
- Investor Type:
24. Kibin Pitch Deck
Year: 2014 • Amount: $545K • Round: Seed
Kibin is an editing & proof reading service for students.In 2011 Kibin raised $400k with the help of this pitch deck.
About Kibin
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Kibin Deck
- Funding Year: 2014
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $545K
- Investor Type:
25. Kite readers Pitch Deck
Year: 2014 • Amount: $500K • Round: Seed
KiteReaders is an internet company that designs, develops, and distributes ebooks and apps for children ages 3-8.
About Kite readers
- Product Type: App
- Business Model: B2B
About the Kite readers Deck
- Funding Year: 2014
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $500K
- Investor Type:
26. Next Play Pitch Deck
Year: 2014 • Amount: Undisclosed • Round: Undisclosed
Next Play helps companies employees, with an AI app that facilitates internal mentorship matching, follow-up, and goal setting.
Next Play raised an undisclosed amount / Non Equity Assistance from Village Capital
About Next Play
- Product Type: SaaS
- Business Model: B2B
About the Next Play Deck
- Funding Year: 2014
- Funding Round: Undisclosed
- Funding Raised: Undisclosed
- Investor Type:
27. Nurse Versity Pitch Deck
Year: 2013 • Amount: $125K • Round: Pre-Seed
nurseVersity is an exam prep platform that offers adaptive learning material for nursing students.
About Nurse Versity
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Nurse Versity Deck
- Funding Year: 2013
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Funding Raised: $125K
- Investor Type:
28. Prolaera Pitch Deck
Year: 2013 • Amount: $35K • Round: Pre-Seed
Prolaera provides classes from the leading experts in the world’s most popular fields. It is an award-winning Continuing Professional Education (CPE) platform built to streamline and simplify CPE for licensed professionals.
About Prolaera
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Prolaera Deck
- Funding Year: 2013
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Funding Raised: $35K
- Investor Type:
29. PupBox Pitch Deck
Year: 2012 • Amount: Undisclosed • Round: Seed
PupBox keeps all of the common puppy essentials on hand so you can give your puppy the love and attention it deserves.
About PupBox
- Product Type: E-commerce
- Business Model: B2C
About the PupBox Deck
- Funding Year: 2012
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: Undisclosed
- Investor Type:
30. QualSights (formerly Georama) Pitch Deck
Year: 2011 • Amount: $175K • Round: Pre-Seed
QualSights is visual insights platform that provides brands, agencies and consulting firms a dramatically faster and more affordable way.
About QualSights (formerly Georama)
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the QualSights (formerly Georama) Deck
- Funding Year: 2011
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Funding Raised: $175K
- Investor Type:
31. Roam and Wander Pitch Deck
Year: 2011 • Amount: $1M • Round: Undisclosed
R+W is a software creation studio specializing in custom web, mobile, and enterprise app development.
About Roam and Wander
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the Roam and Wander Deck
- Funding Year: 2011
- Funding Round: Undisclosed
- Funding Raised: $1M
- Investor Type:
32. School Admissions Pitch Deck
Year: • Amount: Undisclosed • Round: Undisclosed
Exxar Huddle is a 3D Meeting Platform for Product Design, Training & Sales with support for immersive VR/AR experiences
About School Admissions
- Product Type: Other
- Business Model: B2B
About the School Admissions Deck
- Funding Year:
- Funding Round: Undisclosed
- Funding Raised: Undisclosed
- Investor Type:
33. uguru.me Pitch Deck
Year: • Amount: $100K • Round: Seed
Make peer-to-peer help available and affordable by making the connection easy for both sides.
About uguru.me
- Product Type: Marketplace
- Business Model: B2B2C
About the uguru.me Deck
- Funding Year:
- Funding Round: Seed
- Funding Raised: $100K
- Investor Type:
How-to create your own EdTech pitch deck:
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