Pitch

Pitch is the collaborative presentation platform built for modern startup teams, founded in 2018 by Christian Reber (previously founded Wunderlist, sold to Microsoft for $200M+) along with key Wunderlist team members. The pitch is direct: PowerPoint and Keynote are single-user desktop apps designed for a pre-cloud era; Google Slides is fine but feels like a spreadsheet; Pitch is the first presentation tool built native for the collaborative, design-conscious teams of 2020+. Backed by Tiger Global + Index Ventures with $135M+ raised, Pitch became the default startup tool for pitch decks, sales decks, and team presentations. What makes Pitch different is the design system + collaboration combo. Templates are genuinely designer-grade (not the PowerPoint clip-art tier of templates). Real-time multiplayer editing works flawlessly. Brand kits ensure team-wide visual consistency. And the modern UX feels like Figma applied to presentations — designers don't fight it the way they fight PowerPoint. The core feature set: • **Designer-grade templates** — 100+ templates by professional designers for pitch decks, sales decks, OKR reviews, product launches, internal updates • **Real-time collaboration** — Figma-style multi-cursor editing with comments and presence indicators • **Brand kits** — upload logo, colors, fonts; templates auto-adapt to your brand • **Slide library** — reusable slides across presentations (your team's pitch deck masters available to everyone) • **AI features (Pitch AI)** — generate decks from prompts, refine copy, suggest visuals • **Presenter view + analytics** — present from web with presenter notes, see view analytics per slide on shared decks • **Embeds + interactive content** — embed YouTube, Loom, charts, even live web pages inside slides • **Charts + data sync** — connect Google Sheets, Notion databases, custom data for auto-updating charts • **Web-first sharing** — share via link (no download needed); recipients view in browser with view tracking • **Mobile apps** — present from iOS, edit from anywhere • **PDF export** — export to PDF for traditional handoff For founders + startup teams the use cases: • **Investor pitch decks** — the canonical 'we just used Pitch for our seed deck' workflow; templates are investor-grade • **Sales decks for B2B prospecting** — share via link, track who viewed, follow up based on engagement • **Product launch decks** — internal + customer-facing launch materials • **Board update decks** — quarterly board presentations with auto-updating metrics from Notion/Sheets • **All-hands + team updates** — internal company presentations with brand-consistent templates • **Onboarding decks for new hires** — Slide library means HR can use the same canonical company story • **Conference talks** — speakers presenting from Pitch directly to projector The pricing tiered for startups vs enterprise. Free tier covers unlimited decks, unlimited team members, all core editing features — genuinely complete for most startups. Pro at $15/user/month adds video recording, custom domains, advanced AI, and analytics. Business at $30/user/month adds SAML SSO, custom permissions, and admin features. The free tier is unusually generous compared to category competitors — Pitch's strategy has been 'land at scale, monetise later'. Where Pitch wins clearly: by far the best designer-grade template library in the category; real-time collaboration is excellent (better than Google Slides); web-first sharing + analytics is unique for the startup use case (track which investors viewed your deck and how long); generous free tier; modern UX that doesn't feel like 2005 software. Where it loses: Keynote/PowerPoint still beat Pitch for offline editing and complex animations; the company has gone through layoffs + restructuring in 2024 raising sustainability concerns; some advanced features (complex SmartArt, advanced data visualizations) lag PowerPoint; for non-startup audiences (boring corporate decks, academic presentations), Pitch's design-forward defaults can feel overkill. My take: for startup teams building investor decks, sales presentations, and modern marketing decks — Pitch is the right tool and beats Google Slides decisively on design quality + analytics. The web-first sharing with view tracking is genuinely useful for sales prospecting (you can see which investors actually read your deck before the meeting). For enterprise audiences where PowerPoint expectations are baked in (consultancies, finance, large corporates), stick with PowerPoint to match the audience. For everyone else, Pitch is the default modern choice. The 2024 layoffs are worth watching — if Pitch's runway becomes uncertain, the data portability matters; fortunately PDF export and standard formats mean migration risk is manageable.