Pitch decks investors actually read with an ex VC

​Most decks aren't rejected for the reasons founders think. Join Thomas Panton, ex-VC and founder of Morpheus, for a look at how investors really read a deck in the two or three minutes they give it, and how to build yours around that.

​You've probably read the templates. You've followed the slide-by-slide checklists. And you're still not sure why some decks get a second meeting and yours didn't.

​That's because most pitch deck advice describes what a deck should contain, not how an investor actually processes it. Thomas spent over a decade on the investor side of the table across the UK, Europe and America, and now runs Morpheus, building the systems that show funds how they evaluate and process deal information at scale. He's seen this from both angles: as the person deciding, and as the person building the tools that structure how that decision gets made.

​In this session, he'll walk you through what that means for the deck you're building right now: what to include, how to structure it and how to present it so the story lands in the time you've actually got.

​What you'll learn:

• ​Why decks get skimmed and misunderstood, and what that means for how you structure yours

• ​What to include on each slide (and what to cut)

• ​How to order your story so the strongest points land early

• ​How to present your deck so it holds up in a live conversation, not just on the page

• ​The difference between a deck that reads well and one that's actually built for how investors read

​Meet your speaker: Thomas Panton is the founder and CEO of Morpheus, "the intelligence layer for private markets". Before Morpheus, he spent over a decade as a VC across the UK, Europe and America.

​Building your deck for pre-seed or seed? This session gives you the investor's actual read on it, not another generic template.