{"id":38843,"date":"2023-09-15T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/pitch-deck-teardown-learn-xyzs-3m-seed-deck-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T17:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T17:30:01","slug":"pitch-deck-teardown-learn-xyzs-3m-seed-deck-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/15\/pitch-deck-teardown-learn-xyzs-3m-seed-deck-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitch Deck Teardown: Learn.xyz’s $3M seed deck | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Wouldn\u2019t it be great<\/span> if instead of having to spend all that time making your own educational content, you could get an AI to do it for you? That\u2019s the general thesis behind Learn.xyz, and it helped the company close $3 million. Parts of the pitch make it really easy to see why it was successful in closing the round, and other parts\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0well, we\u2019ll get to that.<\/p>\n\n

We\u2019re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here\u2019s how you can do that<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Slides in this deck<\/h2>\n

Learn.xyz has a fun and lightly animated deck that I can\u2019t capture in screenshots (boo!), but I\u2019ll link to the full pitch deck at the end.<\/p>\n

Here is the full, 10-slide deck the company used to pitch its company, closing its $3 million seed round:<\/p>\n

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  1. Cover slide<\/li>\n
  2. Team slide<\/li>\n
  3. Vision slide<\/li>\n
  4. Problem slide<\/li>\n
  5. Solution slide<\/li>\n
  6. Product demo slide<\/li>\n
  7. Traction slide<\/li>\n
  8. Why Now slide<\/li>\n
  9. Revenue model slide<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0The Ask slide<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Three things to love<\/h2>\n

    I love the bold brevity of a 10-slide deck, but regular readers of this column are already mentally preparing for the inevitable tongue-lashing (finger lashing?) for all the info that\u2019s missing. Nevertheless, there\u2019s a lot of great content here.<\/p>\n

    Joyful design<\/h3>\n

    When the founder told me that the company\u2019s pitch deck is animated, thus rendering a PDF version useless, I was ready to go on a tirade about there being no place for animations in pitch decks. But I was dead wrong. The deck works without the animations, but Learn.xyz was able to strike a great balance that adds to the whole experience. Overall, the company\u2019s design language is strong and simple:<\/p>\n

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    [Slide 3] Fun and lighthearted design. Not too much info on the slides, however. Image Credits<\/strong>: Learn.xyz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    The screenshots, the design of the characters, and the use of language all lend themselves to the company\u2019s claim: bringing joy to learning.<\/p>\n

    Clear problem statement<\/h3>\n

    From my own experience, I know that creating a lesson plan is a royal pain. This slide lays out the problem nicely.<\/p>\n

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    [Slide 4] The problem. Image Credits<\/strong>: Learn.xyz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Creating content doesn\u2019t easily scale, and assuming that the AI-generated robot can generate quality that\u2019s good enough, this would be an enormous leap forward. Very cool indeed.<\/p>\n

    I would like to very gently, for the record, admonish Learn.xyz for sneaking part of its solution\/product into the problem slide, but I\u2019ll let it off the hook; it\u2019s done well and subtly.<\/p>\n

    That\u2019s a lot of traction, y\u2019all<\/h3>\n
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    [Slide 7] That\u2019s a lot of traction! Image Credits<\/strong>: Learn.xyz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    Getting users to engage with a platform in any way is often a challenge; inviting users to create around 41,000 pieces of content in four short months is beyond impressive.<\/p>\n

    Of course, there are also some challenges with this graph: What happened in April? Is the number of lessons created really the most important metric for this startup? What about revenue, lessons consumed or customer NPS?<\/p>\n

    Still, any startup that can get this level of user engagement is worth a closer look, even if both what it is choosing to measure and the measurements themselves are a smidge odd.<\/p>\n

    In the rest of this teardown, we\u2019ll look at three things Learn.xyz could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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