PITCH DECK LIBRARY: Here are the pitch decks that helped hot startups raise millions

Billions of dollars are invested in startups every year.Whether a startup seeks to raise money from angel investors, venture capital firms or other backers, the presentation, or “pitch,” about the business is critical. The most effective pitch decks deftly weave data, imagination and storytelling into a captivating slide presentation.Business Insider regularly interviews startups about fundraising strategies and collects the pitch decks that helped startups raise funding. You can read them all by subscribing to BI Prime. Here's a list of some of the recent startup pitch decks published by Business Insider, organized by the funding round the deck was used for:SeedAirBnB: The first-ever investor pitch deck for $31 billion startup Airbnb‚ which has raised over $3 billion and is nearing an IPOFoursquare: Foursquare is 10 years old and has raised over $240 million. Here's what the startup's first investor pitch deck looked like in 2009, before it raised any money at all.Octi: Here's the pitch deck that this Los Angeles-based entrepreneur used to raise over $7 million for his new social network ideaOsano: Here's the pitch deck this Austin, Texas, entrepreneur used to raise millions for a startup inspired by Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimonyUber:Uber's original pitch deck from a decade ago shows just how much the ride-hailing giant has changedUpTop: Here's the pitch deck a New York startup used to raise $5.5 million to expand its apartment-rental serviceZestful: Here's the pitch deck that helped employee rewards startup Zestful raise a $1.2 million seed round before it had any customersSeries AAmify: Here's the pitch deck a Virginia startup used to raise $6 million after seven years of bootstrapping its businessDay One Ventures: Here's the pitch deck this 29-year-old Russian-born VC used to convince investors to contribute millions to her fundDivvy: Here's the investor deck that helped the real-estate startup Divvy raise a $30 million series A led by Andreessen HorowitzHometalk: Here's the pitch deck this New York startup used to raise $15 million to expand the services it offers its community of 17 million do-it-yourselfersSkymind: Here's the pitch deck AI startup Skymind just used to scoop up $11.5 million in fundingVerbit: Here's the pitch deck this New York-based startup used to raise $23 million to expand its hybrid transcription serviceSeries BBrex: A buzzy startup raised $57 million from Peter Thiel and Y Combinator using these 19 slidesDevoted Health: We got a look at the slide deck that buzzy startup Devoted Health used to hit a $1.8 billion valuation before it signed up any customersDivvyCloud: Here's the pitch deck Virginia's DivvyCloud just used to raise $19 million in VC fundingFront: A hot startup raised $66 million in 5 days using these 24 slidesHealthJoy: We got a look at the pitch decks that buzzy $40 million startup HealthJoy used to snag early investors and then execute a huge strategic shiftSeries CKong: Kong is capitalizing on one of the big trends in software. Here's the pitch deck it used to raise $43 million to build out its service.Lola.com: Here's the pitch deck corporate travel service Lola.com used to raise $37 million in new fundsTrumid: Here's the pitch deck Trumid, a Wall Street trading startup backed by George Soros and Peter Thiel, used to raise $53 millionSeries DCarta: Here's the investor deck that $800 million startup Carta used to raise $150 million in venture capitalSeries ECloudian: Here's the pitch deck that helped this enterprise storage company raise a big $94 million round of Series E funding