Funding Options

Gather Information 

The Planning Your Pitch tutorial guides you on how to retrieve the data needed when devising your pitch, and the Your Pitch handout will help you understand how to gather and apply the information. 

Books

The following books can help you understand how to outline and deliver your pitch. 

More Resources

• Harvard Business Review article, How to Pitch a Brilliant

• MaRS Startup Library provides a templet, How to Create a Pitch Deck for Investors

Below are tools used to create visuals for your presentation. Always be sure to read the license agreements before using online materials. Keep in mind that as a U student you have Software available to you.

Images

• Canva is a free resources to create infographic charts and visualization documents
• Coolors.co is a color palette generator
• Flaticon allows you to download free icons and stickers
• Pexels free stock photos and videos
• pixabay provides royalty free stock photos and videos
• Unsplash provides free stock photos that can be used for commercial and noncommercial purposes
• Freepik has a number free icons and free mockups
• Human Terrain provides visualizes of the worlds population in 3D

Presentations

• Slidesgo provides free PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva templates
• Microsoft Office provides templates and themes
• Powerpoint Poster Templates templates for tri-folds of various sizes
• Google Slides are slide templates for every use case
• Slides Carnival allows you to download your presentation as a PowerPoint template

Listed below are pitch opportunities.

• 5 Startups, 5 Minutes each to pitch to Angel & VC Investors at Kiln HQ theater in Lehi. Followed by Q&A, networking & refreshments at the monthly pitch event every Third Thursday at 3 PM.

• A hand-picked list of the 25 top startup pitch competitions of 2025