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Classic 12-slide VC pitch deck structure — suitable for SAFE rounds through Series A.

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  1. Kestrel Freight
    1

    Twenty seconds. Name, one sentence, the round. Then move — the story is the next eleven slides, not this one.

  2. Regional carriers lose a third of every driver day to dispatch
    2

    Do not explain trucking. Explain the dispatcher — one person, a whiteboard, forty phone calls. Everyone in the room has met that job in some form.

  3. We re-plan the whole board, every fifteen minutes, automatically
    3

    The 11-day implementation is the real wedge. Competitors quote six months, which is why carriers under 50 trucks never buy them.

  4. A $4.1B software market inside a $340B freight spend
    4

    Anchor on SAM, not TAM. The $4.1B is carriers under 50 trucks paying for dispatch software at current per-truck prices. The TAM bar is context, not the pitch.

  5. One screen replaces the whiteboard
    5

    If the demo is available, stop here and show the exception queue. That 6% number is the entire product promise made concrete.

  6. Traction: 34 carriers, 118% net retention, growing 22% a month
    6

    Lead with net retention. Carriers add trucks to the platform before they add budget lines, which is why the truck count grows faster than the logo count.

  7. We price per truck, per month, and carriers expand into it
    7

    Per-truck pricing means expansion is automatic — a carrier that buys ten trucks buys ten seats without a conversation. That is where the 118% comes from.

  8. Why we win the segment the incumbents skip
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    The honest version: the incumbents could build this. They will not, because the segment is below their sales cost floor. Say that plainly — investors respect it more than a moat claim.

  9. The team has run the fleets it is selling to
    9

    Dana ran the exact job the software replaces. That is the credential that closes carriers, and it is worth more here than any logo on a resume.

  10. To $28M ARR by 2028 on 42% gross margin expansion
    10

    Gross profit grows faster than ARR because implementation cost per carrier falls with each cohort. Expect the question — the answer is the 11-day install getting shorter, not headcount leverage.

  11. The round buys 24 months and two milestones
    11

    Twenty-four months of runway to $16M ARR, which is a Series B on today’s multiples with a quarter of cushion.

  12. Slide 12 of the Investor Pitch sample deck
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    End on the number and the ask. Do not add a thank-you slide; take questions from here.

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