Investor Pitch Deck Template and Q&A Pack for UAE Founders

Raising money, or asking a partner or lender for it, is mostly preparation. This pack gives you the four things most founders build too late: a deck that tells a clear story, answers to the hard questions, a use-of-funds table that adds up, and the facts an investor will ask you to prove.

What is inside:

• An editable PowerPoint deck of 18 slides (zipped): cover, problem, solution, why now, market, product, business model, traction, go to market, competition, team, financials, the ask and use of funds, milestones, risks, appendix and close. Each slide states the one sentence it must say, gives prompts, and holds guidance in the notes. Four slides carry ready-made tables.
• An investor Q&A rehearsal workbook: 64 realistic questions in 8 areas with why they are asked and what a strong answer includes. You write your answers, score your confidence and see a scorecard that shows your weak areas.
• A use-of-funds and dilution calculator: investor and founder share after the round, a what-if table of valuations, a use-of-funds table that must equal the raise, runway today and after the raise, and a test of whether the runway reaches each milestone. It ships with a fictional example.
• A Word worksheet: 20 story questions, a table of numbers you must be able to prove, a one-page investor summary, a data room checklist and four follow-up email templates.

Who it is for: founders, owners of growing companies and finance managers in the UAE preparing for investors, partners, family offices or lenders, and advisers who coach them.

What it is not: it does not find investors or promise funding. It does not tell you what UAE investors require, because they differ. The dilution sheet is arithmetic: it ignores option pools, convertibles, liquidation preferences and tax, and valuation is a negotiation. Take advice from a lawyer and an accountant before you agree terms. The deck is plain by design and you should restyle it.

Time saved: starting from a blank page a first deck and Q&A preparation usually take days. With the prompts, the numbers table and the question bank, a first complete draft is realistic in a day or two with your facts ready. The result depends on your facts, not the template.

Requirements: Microsoft PowerPoint (or Google Slides or Keynote import), Excel 2016 or later or Google Sheets, and Word or Google Docs. Unzip the deck file first.