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Pitch deck service The pitch deck the other side reads.

Pitch deck design, fund decks, real estate decks and M&A memos, built from the counterparty’s seat by spectup, which takes them to market.

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Niclas Schlopsna, Managing Partner at spectup
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spectup’s track record

4.9 / 5 Top Capital Market Consulting Company 2026
18 Clutch reviews
Raised, placed and advisedacross pitch, fund, real estate and M&A documents$760M+
Decks createdfor companies, funds and dealmakers50+
Decks reviewedacross rounds, funds and M&A500+
+150 more
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Pitch deck design services for four documents: pitch decks, fund decks, real estate decks and M&A memos

What changes is who reads the document and what they are deciding when they do.

Read by An investment committee

Growth equity and later. They read it without you in the room, then argue about it on Monday.

Read by An allocator

Strategy, attribution, portfolio construction. Yours arrives in a queue of decks that all promise the same thing.

Read by A credit committee

Underwriting, comparables, the exit. Every number is checked against their own model.

Read by A buyer

Positioning and normalised financials, written for a strategic and a sponsor at once. It is the memo a sell-side M&A process goes to market with.

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The investor presentations our pitch deck agency built, slide by slide

Sleepless Studios pitch deck

Sleepless Studios

A studio's capacity and pipeline, made legible to a financial buyer.

IndustryCoworking Raised$3M
Aimable pitch deck

Aimable

A consumer product whose retention curve was the entire argument.

IndustryConsumer Raised$1.5M Seed
VoteClash pitch deck

VoteClash

A tournament turned into a category, for a committee that had never bought live interaction.

IndustryLive streaming Raised$7M Seed
Roman AI pitch deck

Roman AI

A $2M seed round argued on sixty days of revenue.

IndustryAI Raised$2M Seed
Plift pitch deck

Plift

A THC soda brand argued the case on shelf economics.

IndustryBeverages Raised$4.5M Series A
Scensai pitch deck

Scensai

A sensor that reads a cask in seconds, put to a room of investors as a category.

IndustrySpirits, hardware StageUniversity spinout

The spectup desk you would be sitting with wrote, sized and designed every deck on this page.

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The order matters: pitch deck design services in four layers

Our pitch deck consulting services put one owner on each layer, and you meet all four. 12 to 19 days end to end.

  1. What is being sold, to whom, on what terms. We decide it from the counterparty's side first: what would make a committee say yes, and whether this transaction has it.

    Niclas Schlopsna, Managing Partner at spectup
    Niclas SchlopsnaManaging Partner

    Your first contact, and the one who decides whether we take it on at all. Previously N26, BMW Startup Garage and Deloitte.

  2. The argument the counterparty repeats internally when you are not in the room. We write it as prose and agree it before anything is designed.

    Edwin Mik, Partner and Head of IR at spectup
    Edwin MikPartner & Head of IR

    Leads the equity story. Previously Barclays, Apax Partners and Euronext.

  3. Sizing bottom up, a competitive map naming the real alternatives, and macro context with a source behind every number, because the committee will check.

    Igor Bystrov, finance and research at spectup
    Igor BystrovFinance and research

    Structured finance leader with Santander and Sberbank pedigree.

  4. Typography, charts and pacing built for a fifteen-minute meeting and for the PDF that gets forwarded afterwards. Design comes last, after the argument is fixed.

    Rezka Endarto, design lead at spectup
    Rezka EndartoDesign lead

    Award-winning designer, in-house. Every deck is drawn by him.

Layer 01StrategyNiclas Schlopsna, Managing Partner at spectupNiclas

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AI can write your pitch deck. It cannot get you the meeting.

A generated deck reads as though nobody in particular wrote it, and investors grant the meeting to a team with a view of its own.
Our pitch deck services begin with the argument a reader has to repeat.
Generated, and it shows
Market Opportunity

Revolutionizing the future of digital engagement

  • Leveraging cutting-edge technology to seamlessly transform the industry landscape
  • $10B TAM growing at 25% CAGR
  • First-mover advantage in a rapidly evolving market
No source, no date, no arithmetic
  1. A verb describing no action. Delete it and the sentence survives. That is the test.
  2. Adjectives where a number belongs. Nothing the reader can check, so they discount it.
  3. A market size with no arithmetic under it. A round number from a report.
  4. True of every company in the round. It distinguishes nothing.
Built with spectup
Slides from the VoteClash deck built by spectup
CompanyVoteClash
SectorLive streaming, consumer
What it had to doTurn one tournament into a category
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Layer 02StoryEdwin Mik, Partner and Head of IR at spectupEdwin

Orchard trees in morning haze with the sun low behind the leaves
Hand holding a green fruit against a dark background
Aerial view of crop rows leading to a glowing horizon at dusk
Robotic gripper holding a fruit on the branch
Dark empty room with floor-to-ceiling windows over a city at night
How a pitch story works

01Somewhere in Michoacán, a grower has four hundred hectares of avocado trees.

02Ripeness cannot be measured from the ground. It is a judgement made by a thumb.

03At that scale the judgement has to be made eleven million times a season.

04So a soft gripper learns the same judgement, and makes it without tiring.

05And in a room like this, someone decides whether any of that is worth funding.

Skip the story

You followed all of that, and nobody explained any of it. That is what a deck has to do.

Layer 03ResearchIgor Bystrov, finance and research at spectupIgor

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Every number our pitch deck consulting service puts on a slide can be taken apart

Our consultants run the research, and it is covered by the engagement. Every figure carries its source, and anything we cannot stand up twice is cut.

What the desk pulls from

A real market slide from a client deck

Paid market databasesFilings and regulatory sourcesYour own numbers

Built from two licensed databases reconciled against each other, then narrowed by your own numbers. Where the two disagree the deck carries the lower figure and names which one it came from. Each layer is sourced on its own, so a reader can reject one and keep the rest.

  1. 1Total market where you sellTwo licensed sizing databases
  2. 2The segment that can buyFilings and registry counts
  3. 3Reachable inside the plan periodYour coverage and capacity
  4. 4Held todayYour contracts
A real competitive landscape slide from a client deck

Your own numbersFilings and regulatory sources

Built from pricing we can evidence: signed contracts where they exist, list prices where they do not, marked either way. Doing nothing is plotted, because it is the alternative most decks leave off and the one that wins most often.

Comparable roundsFrom closed dealsROUNDMEDIAN RAISEDMEDIAN PRE-MONEYIN THE SETSeed$3.1M$12.0M34Series A$11.4M$46.0M21Series B$28.0M$132.0M9

Transaction and funding data

Built from a licensed transaction database, cut to rounds that closed in your sector and geography inside the last eighteen months. The count sits beside each median so a reader can see where the set is thin, and the ask on your slide is set against it.

A real growth slide from a client deck

Filings and regulatory sourcesPaid market databases

Built from the published series either side of the thing that changed, whether that is a rule, a price crossing a threshold or a platform shift. The timing claim then rests on a dated event a reader can look up, with the series showing what it did.

Layer 04DesignRezka Endarto, design lead at spectupRezka

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Pitch deck design services: we build the style guide, or we build on yours

Three examples, one per sector, because a deck read by engineers cannot be set like a deck read on a phone. Type, palette, grid, charts, components and slide furniture, decided once and then held across every page.

Energy infrastructure, project finance. Read alongside a model. Monospace throughout, dense modules, units on everything, no rounding.

Consumer, Series A. Read on a phone in ninety seconds. Warm ground, one hot accent, type set huge, a single figure per page doing the arguing.

Deep tech, Series B. Read by engineers before it reaches the partner. Grotesque at two weights, a ruled ledger, every figure carrying its tolerance and its source.

Type
SF MONO 500 / 400
44/52 · TRACKING −0.8%
LABELS ALWAYS UPPER
Palette
  • #061F1AGROUND
  • #0F3F35MODULE
  • #22957BSERIES
  • #F2A93BFLAG
  • #CFE6DFTYPE
Dot plot
ONE DOT PER UNIT. NO BARS. NO GRIDLINES.
Icons
  • GAUGE
  • BUS
  • CELL
  • LOAD
Grid and parts
16 COL · 12PT GUTTER · 2PX RADIUS MAX
Image
MONOCHROME. PLANT AND LINE ONLY. NO SKY.
Type
Helvetica Now Display 700
Caps, tracking −2.8%, 72/68. One weight only, set enormous.
Palette
  • #12100EInk
  • #E8452APrimary
  • #FFC24ASupport
  • #FFF1E6Surface
Figure
One figure per page. Never a decimal on a slide.
Icons
  • Repeat
  • Basket
  • Spark
  • Heart
Solid, rounded, 24px box. No outlines.
Grid and parts
Full pill. 6 columns, 40pt gutter, images full bleed.
Image
Image direction: warm, close, human, always in use
Type
64/68 Display, Inter Display 600
34/40 Heading, Inter Display 600
17/26 Body, Inter Text 450
10/14 Caption, Inter Text 500, +16 tracking
Palette
  • #0D1524Ink
  • #20355CPrimary
  • #4C6EA8Support
  • #C6D2E6Surface
Charts
Columns, one series, error bar on every bar
Icons
  • Crosshair
  • Caliper
  • Node
  • Signal
1.5px stroke, square cap, 24px box, never filled
Grid and parts
12 columns · 24pt gutter · 56pt margin
No radius. 1px hairline, 100% or 14% ink.
Image
Machined detail, raking light, no people, no stock

Strategy, story, research and design, run by the four people you just met.

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Three ways to buy pitch deck services, and what each costs you

spectup Design-only agency Freelance designer
Who does the work

spectupFundraisers who have run rounds, on your deck directly.

Design-only agencyA designer briefed by an account manager.

Freelance designerOne freelancer, whatever their background is.

What they change

spectupPositioning, story, sizing, then the slides.

Design-only agencyThe slides.

Freelance designerThe slides, faster.

Where the numbers come from

spectupResearch we run and can source, line by line.

Design-only agencyWhatever you supply.

Freelance designerWhatever you supply.

After delivery

spectupWe take it to investors ourselves.

Design-only agencyThe engagement ends.

Freelance designerThe engagement ends.

What it costs

spectupFrom $5,000 per deck, fixed fee.

Design-only agencyA price for the slides; the story is yours.

Freelance designerAn hourly or per-slide rate.

Who carries the outcome

spectupWe are in the room when it is read.

Design-only agencyNobody.

Freelance designerNobody.

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What clients say about spectup once the deck went to market

Paula Anselmi, Co-Founder and CEO of KLAYD, a spectup pitch deck client
“They helped us crystallize our message and structure complex info in a way that clicked with investors.”
Paula AnselmiCo-Founder & CEOKLAYD
4.9 / 5 Top Capital Market Consulting Company 2026
18 Clutch reviews
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“What stood out most was the strength of the team and how quickly they understood our business.”
Mike BillingsleyExecutive · OnePulseAdvertising and marketingOnePulse pitch deck cover slide by spectup: consumer insights platform built on generative AI
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“That level of commitment and care set them apart from other firms we have worked with.”
Kristian WrightCEO · enhanced.ioCybersecurityenhanced.io pitch deck cover slide by spectup: full spectrum cybersecurity protection for managed service providers
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“spectup’s dedication to really understanding our specific business and plan was commendable.”
Alvaro SalazarSenior Product Manager · EvencoSoftwareEvenco Analytics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: AI-driven fund flow prediction for asset managers
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“spectup not only offered us more bespoke options but also provided candid advice.”
Head of Technology and InnovationGORDResearch and development, QatarGORD pitch deck cover slide by spectup: Synergia patented cooling system for a climate-resilient future
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“What really impressed me was their reliability.”
Elena DangCEO and Founder · POSTHUMAN3D-printed accessoriesPOSTHUMAN pitch deck cover slide by spectup: 3D printed neo-future accessories and jewellery brand
Trustpilot
“great design for reasonable cost”
Charles ColtmanChief Product Officer · HealthAgentHealthcare voice AIHealthAgent pitch deck cover slide by spectup: intelligent voice assistant connecting modern healthcare
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“They kept the project moving by constantly contacting us.”
Doctoral ResearcherCemDynamicsMaterials research, GORD spinoutCemDynamics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: accelerating cement towards a low-carbon future
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“What stood out most was the strength of the team and how quickly they understood our business.”
Mike BillingsleyExecutive · OnePulseAdvertising and marketingOnePulse pitch deck cover slide by spectup: consumer insights platform built on generative AI
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“That level of commitment and care set them apart from other firms we have worked with.”
Kristian WrightCEO · enhanced.ioCybersecurityenhanced.io pitch deck cover slide by spectup: full spectrum cybersecurity protection for managed service providers
Clutch
“spectup’s dedication to really understanding our specific business and plan was commendable.”
Alvaro SalazarSenior Product Manager · EvencoSoftwareEvenco Analytics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: AI-driven fund flow prediction for asset managers
Clutch
“spectup not only offered us more bespoke options but also provided candid advice.”
Head of Technology and InnovationGORDResearch and development, QatarGORD pitch deck cover slide by spectup: Synergia patented cooling system for a climate-resilient future
Clutch
“What really impressed me was their reliability.”
Elena DangCEO and Founder · POSTHUMAN3D-printed accessoriesPOSTHUMAN pitch deck cover slide by spectup: 3D printed neo-future accessories and jewellery brand
Trustpilot
“great design for reasonable cost”
Charles ColtmanChief Product Officer · HealthAgentHealthcare voice AIHealthAgent pitch deck cover slide by spectup: intelligent voice assistant connecting modern healthcare
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“They kept the project moving by constantly contacting us.”
Doctoral ResearcherCemDynamicsMaterials research, GORD spinoutCemDynamics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: accelerating cement towards a low-carbon future
Direct
“Investors told us this deck is too good, and that they were worried we should be spending more time building the business.”
Thomas CramptonFounder and CEO · Sleepless StudiosCreative studiosSleepless Studios investor pitch deck cover slide by spectup: 24/7 creative studios for musicians and producers
Direct
“Just wanted to thank you again for the great materials Spectup provided.”
Rudy EcheniqueDirector of Operations · Sensate RoboticsIndustrial roboticsSensate Robotics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: robotic gripper automating quality-sensitive production stages
Direct
“The pitch went really well today. It honestly couldn’t have gone any better. Wouldn’t have been possible without you guys.”
Dr. Ammar ElhowerisCommercial Lead · ScensaiSpirits sensing, University of Aberdeen spinoutScensai pitch deck cover slide by spectup: a sensor that reads a maturing cask in seconds
Trustpilot
“We were so impressed with how fast they understood our complex needs and turned them into simple, elegant documents.”
Serhan BaharCo-Founder · LongevitrackConsumer SaaSLongevitrack seed round pitch deck cover slide by spectup: daily longevity and health tracking app
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“The quality of the work produced was excellent. The timeframe for delivery was fast & the cost was very reasonable.”
Dom GattellariCo-Founder · ContractableConstruction softwareContractable investor deck cover slide by spectup: finance and operations platform for profitable construction projects
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“spectup was very knowledgeable and able to get us what we needed.”
Camilla WieseCo-Founder · y2kVintage fashiony2k pitch deck cover slide by spectup: curation, scale and strategy in vintage fashion wholesale
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“Their consultative approach was a big help for us.”
Shun DorseyFounder and CEO · BeamPayFinancial servicesBeamPay pitch deck cover slide by spectup: mobile payments app to pay anyone, anywhere, anytime
Direct
“Investors told us this deck is too good, and that they were worried we should be spending more time building the business.”
Thomas CramptonFounder and CEO · Sleepless StudiosCreative studiosSleepless Studios investor pitch deck cover slide by spectup: 24/7 creative studios for musicians and producers
Direct
“Just wanted to thank you again for the great materials Spectup provided.”
Rudy EcheniqueDirector of Operations · Sensate RoboticsIndustrial roboticsSensate Robotics pitch deck cover slide by spectup: robotic gripper automating quality-sensitive production stages
Direct
“The pitch went really well today. It honestly couldn’t have gone any better. Wouldn’t have been possible without you guys.”
Dr. Ammar ElhowerisCommercial Lead · ScensaiSpirits sensing, University of Aberdeen spinoutScensai pitch deck cover slide by spectup: a sensor that reads a maturing cask in seconds
Trustpilot
“We were so impressed with how fast they understood our complex needs and turned them into simple, elegant documents.”
Serhan BaharCo-Founder · LongevitrackConsumer SaaSLongevitrack seed round pitch deck cover slide by spectup: daily longevity and health tracking app
Clutch
“The quality of the work produced was excellent. The timeframe for delivery was fast & the cost was very reasonable.”
Dom GattellariCo-Founder · ContractableConstruction softwareContractable investor deck cover slide by spectup: finance and operations platform for profitable construction projects
Clutch
“spectup was very knowledgeable and able to get us what we needed.”
Camilla WieseCo-Founder · y2kVintage fashiony2k pitch deck cover slide by spectup: curation, scale and strategy in vintage fashion wholesale
Clutch
“Their consultative approach was a big help for us.”
Shun DorseyFounder and CEO · BeamPayFinancial servicesBeamPay pitch deck cover slide by spectup: mobile payments app to pay anyone, anywhere, anytime
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What a pitch deck costs at spectup

Full deck

From$5,000per deck

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Duration

12 to 19 daysProposal accepted to deck delivered

What we cover
  • 01StrategyWhat is sold, to whom, on what terms
  • 02StoryThe equity story
  • 03ResearchSizing, comparables, a dated why now
  • 04DesignDrawn in-house

PowerPointGoogle SlidesKeynoteCanvaPDF

The editable deck in your tool, a PDF built for sending and the research appendix.

Deck and capital introduction togetherPriced per engagement

Which spectup service you need

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Pitch deck questions we answer on every first call

01How much does a pitch deck cost?

A full spectup deck, with strategy, story, market research and design, starts at $5,000 per deck. Where the positioning and the market research are already settled, the days go into the story and the design instead, inside the same fixed-fee proposal. We scope it against the round you are raising and quote a fixed fee before anything starts, so there is no hourly meter. If a template and an afternoon would get you there, we will say so on the first call.

02How do we start working together?

You request a call. We spend about thirty minutes getting to know each other, the round you are raising, the timing and who has to say yes. If there is a deck already you can share it after that call, so we read it knowing what it has to do. Then we send a proposal with the scope, a fixed fee and a timeline of 12 to 19 days. Nothing is chargeable before you accept it.

03What do your pitch deck services include?

Positioning, the equity story, the market research and the design, in that order, with one owner on each. That is the difference between pitch deck consulting services and a design job: we decide what the document has to argue before anyone opens a drawing tool, and we can defend every figure in it. If you only need the drawing, we will say so and quote for that instead.

04What makes spectup different from a typical pitch deck design agency?

A design agency changes the slides. spectup changes the argument and then the slides: positioning, equity story and market research come first, and the design is built to carry them. The people doing it have run rounds, so the deck is built for the meeting it has to survive.

05What is an equity story and why does it matter?

An equity story is the argument an investor repeats to their partners when you are not in the room, and it is what an investor deck is built to carry: why this market, why this team, why now, and what the money buys. A deck without one can look excellent and still fail, because the reader has nothing to carry into the investment committee.

06What does your market research cover?

Market sizing built bottom up from real customers and prices, a competitive map naming the alternatives a buyer considers including doing nothing, macro context with a source behind each number, and go-to-market input on the channel economics the round is meant to fund.

07In what formats do you deliver the deck?

You choose the tool: PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote or Canva. You get the editable deck in it, a PDF built for sending, and the research appendix. You own all of it.

08How long does a pitch deck take?

12 to 19 days end to end, and the proposal states the figure before anything starts. On a full 19-day job, roughly three days go to strategy, four to the story, five to research and seven to design. Design is last and longest.

09Do you work with companies outside Europe raising in the US?

Yes. spectup is an international team and raises from investors in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. A European company raising from US funds is the most common shape of engagement.

10Can you just design a deck we have already written?

Sometimes, and we will say so on the first call. If the positioning holds up, design alone is enough.

11What else does spectup do beyond pitch decks?

spectup is a capital advisory firm. Alongside deck work we run full raises as a startup fundraising consultant and act as private placement agent.

Ask us something else
KLAYD pitch deck cover slide by spectup, Consumer, £5M raise
Aimable pitch deck cover slide by spectup, Consumer, $1.5M Seed raise
ARYA pitch deck cover slide by spectup, AI, $5M raise

Send us the deck you have. We will tell you what it is missing before you spend on it.

Send us your deck See the work
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Thirty minutes on the round and the reader

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You share the deck, if there is one

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A proposal: scope, fixed fee, 12 to 19 days