This week, we were fortunate enough to hear from Priyanka Karunanithi, investment associate at Octopus Ventures about how to approach VCs. If you haven’t already read her advice on ways to contact and connect with VCs, you can read about it here.

So you’ve got a meeting in the diary: how will you write your pitch?

Here is a short guide to writing the crucial presentation:

Your presentation, Priyanka says, should consist of only 5 slides. (as Ken Valledy said back in September, ‘Think 5 slides, not 50!’) These are:

1. Your product
2. Competition – why exactly are you better than your competitor
3. Your team
4. Your market – make it as specific as possible
5. Financials

There you have it! You are now 5 slides away from a winning pitch.