Module 10 · The fundraising deck~23s dwell · weight 13
Team
Show why THIS team wins. The single slide investors spend the most time on at seed, they are betting on you.
Include
- Founders + one-line proof of relevant skill for THIS problem
- Why you're uniquely qualified (founder-market fit, not resume)
- Complementary strengths (build / sell / operate)
- One line on why the founders work well together (co-founder trust)
Cut
- Long resumes and titles
- Advisors crowding out founders
- More than ~3 people on the main slide
- Photos that look nothing like the founders in a meeting
Red flags a reader notices
- Advisors take more space than founders
- No explanation of why this team wins this problem
- Every founder has the same background (missing skill)
Pitfalls behind them
- Bios lead with degrees or titles instead of what each founder shipped.
- Advisors take more visual space than founders on the main slide.
- There's no line explaining why this team, specifically, wins this problem.
60-second self-test
- · Does each bio name a prior product or scope the reader can verify in one search?
- · If you swapped 'we' for 'they', would the slide still argue for THIS team over any other?
Template
[Name], [role]. [One line proving relevant skill for THIS problem]. Co-founders since [year / context].
Weak
"Passionate entrepreneurs with 20+ years of combined experience."
Strong
"Jane Liu, CEO. Built Rippling's international contractor product 0 → $40M ARR across 40 countries. Marcus Osei, CTO. Owned Wise's SWIFT + stablecoin payout rails for 8 years. Priya Rao, Compliance. Wrote Deel's LATAM/APAC playbook."
Each bio names the exact prior product and the exact scope, the same founder-market-fit story the Nimbus team slide tells.
Quick quiz
Pick an answer. Nothing is graded, and correct answers stay hidden until you choose.
1. On the team slide, prioritize…
2. Investors spend the most time at seed on…