An alternative (or addition) to your pitch deck can be an investment memo. It is a clear and precise articulation of your company and clarifies why it is a good idea to invest in your company.
<aside> 📌 Most VCs write investment memos for their partners' meetings and for documentation purposes. You doing it can be a good way to incept your ideas of that memo into their thoughts.
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A memo can be especially helpful if you are very good at writing. It gives more context than a pitch deck and can prevent misunderstandings. If you sent the memo ahead of time to the investor it even gives you and the investor the possibility to deep dive into your business when meeting each other.
<aside> 💡 You can find a real-life example of a company raising without a pitch deck - just with an investor memo here.
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We have put together a template for you when writing your investment memo: