Berlin-based Pitch is a company that is working on a software platform for making presentations such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, and Apple Keynote. Pitch CEO and co-founder Christian Reber is looking to make Pitch “a presentation tool for the Slack generation,” according to TechCrunch. And Pitch has raised $19 million in Series A funding, which is well ahead of its projected launch date of summer 2019.
“This is a transformational time for business software, where innovation and thoughtful design is resetting expectations and reimagining the user experience. Yet presentation tools have not kept pace with technology and feel unnecessarily complex and difficult to use. There needs to be something new, different and substantially better,” said Pitch CEO and founder Christian Reber. “Pitch is a new beginning. We set out to rethink how individuals and teams express ideas, collaborate and communicate progress, and support their decision-making with well understood data. The result is an ambitious vision to build an open platform and radically improve the way presentations are crafted and knowledge is shared. A new paradigm, designed for everyone, made for teams.”
Index Ventures and BlueYard led this round of funding. Eric Yuan (Zoom CEO), Koen Bok (Framer CEO), Simon Willnauer (Elastic co-founder), Olivier Pomel (Datadog CEO), Frank Thelen (CEO of VC firm e42), and Andrew Wilkinson (Metalab founder), and Slack Fund also participated in this round of funding. Pitch has now raised a total of $22 million. And Pitch will be using the funding to grow its design, engineering, and marketing teams.
In conjunction with the funding, Index Ventures partner Neil Rimer is joining the board of directors at Pitch. “Pitch is one of Europe’s few true product-centric companies breaking new ground in software for businesses. From messaging to file sharing, software companies like Slack and Dropbox have transformed how teams work together and unlocked greater productivity as a result. We believe Pitch has the potential to redefine the presentation space and become a central hub for content collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and ultimately a platform for better decision-making,” added Rimer.
Pitch was also founded by the team that launched the popular Wunderlist to-do app. Wunderlist was acquired by Microsoft in 2015.
