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Earlier this week, I wrote a narrative about EV charging company Orange and the way it’s taking a distinct strategy to placing chargers all over the place. As a substitute of some high-speed chargers, it makes it simple for multifamily dwellings (suppose house buildings) to place charger sockets all over the place there could be EVs, caring for billing and such to show electrical sockets right into a income stream for constructing homeowners whereas making it simple for EV homeowners to cost their vehicles.

It’s a intelligent mannequin, replicating the advantages of charging at dwelling utilizing easy charger infrastructure. I requested the founders in the event that they could be inquisitive about sharing their pitch deck. To my delight, they mentioned sure!


We’re in search of extra distinctive pitch decks to tear down, so if you wish to submit your individual, here’s how you can do that


Slides on this deck

  1. Cowl slide
  2. Mission slide
  3. Drawback slide
  4. Macroeconomic market slide (“Why now?”)
  5. Market measurement slide
  6. Resolution slide
  7. Worth proposition slide
  8. Product tech spec slide
  9. Product slide
  10.  Aggressive panorama slide
  11.  Aggressive benefit slide
  12.  Enterprise mannequin slide
  13.  Money stream slide
  14.  Go-to-market slide
  15.  Crew slide
  16.  Advisers slide
  17.  “The ask” slide
  18.  Contact slide
  19.  Appendices cowl slide
  20.  Appendix I: Product set up pictures
  21.  Appendix II: 3-year monetary projections
  22.  Appendix III: Headcount slide
  23.  Appendix IV: Sources and references

Three issues to like

Orange Charging’s pitch deck is likely one of the finest decks I’ve seen in a really very long time — it appears to be like good, it tells a coherent story and it touches on all of the components that buyers wish to see in a deck. It even consists of nice examples of slides that many startup founders get flawed. The truth is, after I first scrolled by the deck, I discovered myself questioning if I’d be utilizing this as a teardown in any respect — what’s the use in criticizing one thing that’s virtually excellent?

Let’s begin by taking a peek at a number of the highlights.

Superb abstract slide

[Slide 2] Setting the tone. Picture Credit: Orange

Once I first scrolled by the deck, I discovered myself questioning if I’d be utilizing this as a teardown in any respect — what’s the use in criticizing one thing that’s virtually excellent?

You solely get one likelihood to make a primary impression, and Orange’s second slide does a hell of a job of that in a number of dimensions. Visually, this can be a gorgeous slide; the brilliant orange stripe that runs alongside the partitions of the storage (it appears to be like like it could be a Photoshop job moderately than a paint or vinyl job, however that doesn’t matter for the aim of a slide deck); the three vehicles and the brilliant orange charger packing containers are all nice visuals.

Then, the textual content. It encapsulates the issue the corporate is fixing in a extremely easy and easy-to-understand method.

For an ideal rating right here, I’d have made this slide concerning the firm. Make the textual content orange and alter it to one thing like “We simplify putting in, scaling and managing ⚡️ electrical car charging in multiunit properties.” That method, it isn’t about the issue — it’s concerning the firm and the answer. A small field exhibiting the corporate’s progress and the aim of this fundraise (“500 chargers put in in 75 areas, elevating $2.5 million to 10x our set up base”) can be even higher.

Nice overview of worth propositions

[Slide 9] An important overview of Orange Charger’s win-win setup. Picture Credit: Orange

In a world the place individuals are very used to Tesla’s Supercharger community on one hand and the final concept of fuel stations (the place you fill everytime you get near empty) on the opposite, Orange’s take is totally different from each.

As a substitute of rapid-charging once in a while or filling up solely if you end up empty, the corporate affords an answer that individuals who cost at dwelling are used to: Everytime you get dwelling, plug your automotive in, and also you’re good to go everytime you get again to your automotive. Turning this charging paradigm into an organization is basically the core of what Orange is doing.

This slide helps clarify why having a 110V or 240V socket put in, charging at 16 amps, is definitely lots for the overwhelming majority of EV drivers. It additionally argues that decrease set up prices (and the absence of a charging cable that may break) and ease of operation make its answer an incredible various to opponents.

Which is a improbable setup for the 2 competitors slides that comply with.

Spectacular market slide

[Slide 5] In fact electrical charging goes to be enormous. Picture Credit: Orange

It’s a uncommon alternative to be in a world the place you’re 100% sure that an enormous shift in an vital market is coming. That’s true for electrical autos and all of the infrastructure that comes with them. No investor price their salt goes to argue with an organization that claims EV charging is a large, worth-solving downside. Seeing it offered with this degree of readability on a slide, although, is reassuring and thrilling to anybody who’s been maintaining a tally of the speedy proliferation of EVs.

On one other slide, Orange makes the argument that EVs will value the identical as gasoline-powered vehicles by 2025 — I’m a bit skeptical, however the date is much less vital than the truth that that is going to occur sooner or later. Add in authorities incentives (both punitively within the type of larger gasoline taxes or a extra carrot-like strategy with new incentives for electrical autos), and also you’ve received a extremely attention-grabbing market certainly.

In the remainder of this teardown, we’ll check out three issues Orange might have improved or carried out in a different way, together with its full pitch deck!

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