The seed round pitch decks that helped budding startups raise millions

Seed funding is a vital phase in the life of a startup.

The relatively modest amount of funding, usually a few million dollars, provides the capital to turn a brilliant idea on a napkin into a real product.

Getting seed funding means pitching to a broad spectrum of potential investors, from “angel” investors to early-stage venture capital firms.

Here are the pitch decks that the latest crop of startups have successfully used to raise seed funding and take their business to the next level.

Business Insider regularly interviews startups about fundraising strategies and collects the pitch decks that helped them raise funding. You can read them all by subscribing to BI Prime.

AceUp: Here's the pitch deck that's helping this 28-year-old first-time entrepreneur raise over $2 million in seed funding to make professional coaching more accessible

Airbnb: The first investor pitch deck for $31 billion startup Airbnb, which has raised over $3 billion and is nearing an IPO

Careem: Here's the pitch deck Careem used to secure its first round of venture capital, which led its first investors to a 100x return when Uber bought the company this year

Foursquare: Foursquare is 10 years old and has raised over $240 million. Here's what the startup's first investor pitch deck looked like in 2009, before it raised any money.

Holloway: Here's the pitch deck that Holloway used to raise $4.6 million from NEA and the New York Times for its online 'how-to' manual business

Include: The deck a 23-year-old Croatian entrepreneur used to raise 2 million euros to turn its smart benches into a worldwide ad network

Octi: The deck an LA entrepreneur used to raise $7 million for his new social-network idea

Osano: The deck a Texas entrepreneur used to raise millions for a startup inspired by Zuckerberg's congressional testimony

Pillar: The deck that Pillar, a student-loan-management startup, used to score $5.5 million from Kleiner Perkins and an A-list of Silicon Valley backers

Public Goods: This deck helped a New York startup raise millions to build a direct-to-consumer marketplace that fills the gap between Amazon and Walmart

The Predictive Index: This deck helped a 65-year-old company raise $50 million, and show investors why its personality-testing service was suddenly growing like a hot startup

Swit: Here's the pitch deck that convinced investors to pour $6 million into a startup trying to take on Slack and Asana despite entering the market years late

Uber: Uber's original deck from a decade ago shows just how much the ride-hailing giant has changed

UpTop: The deck a New York startup used to raise $5.5 million to expand its apartment-rental service

Winnie: The deck that raised millions for 2 ex-Googlers whose startup helps new millennial parents find childcare

Zestful: The deck that helped employee-rewards startup Zestful raise a $1.2 million seed round before it had any customers