Meet Launch Deck

Two founders. 1,000+ decks.
$60M raised by our clients.

Launch Deck banner: a strategic design agency founded by Arthur Gusev and Vladimir Pletyukhin, creating pitch decks, investment materials, websites, and brand visuals
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Who we are

Arthur Gusev, co-founder and CEO of Launch Deck
Founder, CEO

Arthur

Runs the content side of Launch Deck. Shapes the story across pitch decks, investment materials, websites, and brand work — figuring out what actually lands with investors and customers, and what's quietly killing the message. Five years of narrative work across hundreds of projects.

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Vladimir Pletyukhin, co-founder and Creative Director of Launch Deck
Founder, Creative Director

Vlad

Runs the design side of LaunchDeck. 300+ projects shipped since 2020 across decks, investment materials, websites, and brand systems, mostly for technical founders who need their story to land with people who don't share their vocabulary. Mentors at Founder Institute and other accelerators on the side.

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Launch Deck in numbers

$60M+

Raised by our startup clients

1000+

Decks created across 15+ industries

6+ Years

Focused exclusively on startup and scaleup visual strategy

What Sets Us Apart

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We've been on the other side.

We don't just make decks — we mentor startups, scout for VCs, and review pitches as part of acceleration programs. We know what decision-makers are filtering for because we've been the ones doing the filtering.

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We study what works.

We published How to Rocket Your Fundraising: The New Pitch Deck Playbook — a research report built from interviews with 100+ VCs, angel investors, and accelerators across 11 industries and 7 global regions. Our recommendations aren't guesses. They're patterns from data.

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We're senior-only by design.

No junior designers learning on your project. No layers between you and the people doing the work. Every project gets the full attention of the people whose careers were built on making complex ideas land.

How We Work

WE DIG BEFORE WE DESIGN

Most founders undersell themselves without realizing it. The value isn't clear, the hard tech's buried under jargon, the real story never makes the page. So before we open a design file, we dig. We go through everything you've got, ask the questions investors will ask, and figure out what you're actually worth. The design comes after we know what we're selling.

We Adapt to your scale.

For projects that need additional firepower — development, animation, financial modeling, copywriting — we bring in specialists from a network we've built over six years. They plug into our process, we stay in the lead. Small enough to move fast, connected enough to take on anything.

Broader than you'd expect.

We're known for pitch decks, but that's not where it ends. In 2026 alone, we wrote, shot, and post-produced a product launch video, helped 10 teams across three continents prepare their pitches, and designed stage presentations for three separate tech conferences. If it needs to land with an audience, it's probably something we do.

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We'd rather show you what we can do than keep talking about it.

Launch Deck Blog

What we've picked up running an agency: pitch decks, fundraising, branding, storytelling.