Short answer: pick on one question: is your problem the story, or the visuals?
- Story and brand (a deck that also defines how the company looks): a startup branding studio like Feely Studio.
- Fixed-price, fast: Slidebean's deck service at $799 for up to 20 slides in 4 business days.
- Investor-grade storytelling: specialist agencies like Visual Hackers and Ink Narrates (quote only).
- Ongoing design for a funded scale-up: Superside (from $15,000 a month).
- DIY: Slidebean's software (from $7/mo) or Decktopus (from $9.99/mo).
Then send it with tracking, and get it in front of investors who fit your round. A beautiful deck that reaches the wrong 50 funds raises nothing.
| Option | Type | Best for | Price (as listed, Oct 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feely Studio | Branding + web + deck studio | Founders who need brand and deck together | Design subscription from $4,200/mo (part-time); brand identity from 3 weeks |
| Slidebean (service) | Deck writing + design | Fast fixed-price decks | $799 (≤20 slides, 4 days); strategy sprint from $6,000 |
| Visual Hackers | Presentation agency (est. 2016) | Investor decks and memos | Quote |
| Ink Narrates | Narrative + design | Story-led decks | Quote by slide count |
| Superside | Design subscription | Scale-ups with ongoing design needs | From $15,000/mo + $1,000/mo software, annual |
| Slidebean (software) | AI deck builder | DIY founders | From $7/mo, billed yearly |
| Decktopus | AI presentation builder | Quick first drafts | Pro $9.99/mo, billed annually |
1 · Feely Studio: when the deck is also your brand
Early-stage decks often fail for a reason no slide template fixes: the company doesn't yet have a clear way to say what it is. Feely Studio is a branding and web design studio for startups: AI and SaaS, fintech, healthtech, HR tech and enterprise.
- Pitch work: pitch decks, ad creatives and motion design.
- Brand identity: positioning, messaging, logo, typography and a brand book, from 3 weeks.
- Websites: built on Webflow and Framer.
- Ongoing work: a design subscription from $4,200 a month (part-time), with most tasks done in 1–3 business days.
Use it when you're raising and rebranding together, so the deck, the website and the data room all tell the same story.
If investors keep asking "so what exactly do you do?", fix the positioning before the slides.
2 · Slidebean: fixed price and fast
Slidebean's deck service is the most transparent on this list: $799 for up to 20 slides in 4 business days. A Strategy + Deck Sprint, which includes the narrative work, starts at $6,000 over 3–4 weeks. The trade-off at the low end is template-speed work, so bring your own story.
3 · Visual Hackers and Ink Narrates: storytelling specialists
- Visual Hackers (founded 2016) designs investor decks and investment memos for funded startups.
- Ink Narrates pairs narrative writing with design and quotes by slide count.
Neither publishes prices, so get two quotes for the same brief and compare scope, not just price.
4 · Superside: ongoing design for scale-ups
Superside runs design as a subscription that includes presentations, from $15,000 a month plus a $1,000 software fee on an annual term. That's overkill for one deck, and sensible for a Series B team producing board decks, sales decks and campaigns every month.
5 · DIY: Slidebean software and Decktopus
For a first draft or a pre-seed round, AI builders work:
- Slidebean software from $7 a month, billed yearly;
- Decktopus Pro at $9.99 a month, billed annually.
You do the thinking; the tool does the layout. Before paying anyone, read our investor deck guide and the mistakes that sink decks.
6 · After the deck: getting it in front of the right investors
Two things happen once the deck is done:
- Send it with tracking. Tools such as DocSend show which pages each investor read, and for how long.
- Build the list. Most founders under-invest here. Research funds that actually lead your stage, sector and check size, find the partner who covers your space, and reach them with a short, specific note.
That's the same research-then-outreach motion we run for B2B pipeline at Invental Partners, applied to a raise.