Kelvinworks Series A
Climate tech pitch deck example that prices every tonne
Kelvinworks fits heat recovery units to food processing plants and sells the saved gas back as a monthly fee. The deck puts cost per tonne of CO2 abated on the same slide as the customer payback, because a climate investor has to believe both numbers and most decks only show one.
Every slide, in order
The whole deck as it renders, one slide after another. Read it the way the audience would.
The structure
What each slide is doing, so you can reuse the order even with different content.
- Slide 1cover
- A dark, type only cover in the demo day tradition: the claim is the headline.
- Slide 2intro
- One line carries the waste, and three shifts explain why plants sign now.
- Slide 3pillars
- The offer in three numbered pills: no capex, pay from savings, seven year term.
- Slide 4metrics
- The two numbers a climate investor triangulates on, side by side on one slide.
- Slide 5metrics
- Contracted savings compounding as sites install: the line only moves when steel is bolted in.
- Slide 6metrics
- The per site economics in one row of numbers: capex, fee, margin, tonnes and IRR from the same site.
- Slide 7process
- The grant and finance stack as a numbered roadmap, with one grant already received.
- Slide 8metrics
- The pipeline as a narrowing staircase: 210 screened sites end in 5 installed.
- Slide 9comparison
- The service against the customer buying the unit outright, weighed honestly, with a verdict.
- Slide 10investment
- The $6M donut, with units and installs taking more than half because hardware is the growth.
- Slide 11closing
- The conclusion is an argument, not a thank you: every site pays back, we need 40 more.
How to adapt this deck
A carbon removal company swaps the payback panel for price per tonne sold and buyer commitments, and the grant stack becomes an offtake stack. A climate software company keeps the two number slide but the tonnes become customer reported abatement, which needs a measurement line in the ask. Hardware with a longer payback should keep this deck’s separation of customer payback from project IRR: the customer number sells the contract, the IRR sells the investor, and muddling them sinks both.
Which pitch deck do you need?
The investor pitch deck example is the hub for the overall arc. The hardware example goes deeper on bill of materials and manufacturing ramps for climate companies that build their own units, the healthtech example shares the evidence before growth structure, and the nonprofit fundraising deck covers mission led decks where no equity changes hands.
What makes this deck work
The two numbers share one slide
Slide four is just $38 per tonne abated and a 1.6 year customer payback, side by side at billboard size. Impact investors triangulate on abatement cost and commercial investors on payback, and a deck that shows both from the same installed base answers both rooms at once.
Impact and economics come from one table
The per site table carries capex of $310k, an annual fee of $118k, 58% gross margin, 1,450 tonnes abated and a 19% IRR in the same grid, with best and worst site columns beside the typical one. The tonnes and the dollars are the same rows, so neither can be inflated without breaking the other.
The grant stack starts with money received
The five row funding stack opens with a $1.2M ARENA grant already received, then the certificate scheme, a signed loan term sheet, a carbon method assessment and customer prepayments. Ordering the stack by certainty, with row one banked, turns a subsidy story into a capital plan.
Questions people ask
What goes in a climate tech pitch deck?
Everything a normal deck carries, plus three climate specific slides: cost per tonne beside customer payback, a grant and concessional finance stack, and unit economics where the tonnes and the dollars come from the same table. This example runs all three between traction and the ask.
How do I show impact without writing an impact report?
Put the tonnes in the unit economics. Kelvinworks shows 1,450 tonnes abated per site in the same row set as the fee and the margin, and prices abatement at $38 a tonne. One credible number wired into the commercial model beats twenty pages of methodology that nobody in the meeting can check.
Where do grants belong in the deck?
On their own slide, ordered by certainty, after the commercial traction. Grants shown before revenue make the business look grant shaped. Here the stack sits seventh, opens with a received ARENA grant and ends with the speculative carbon credit line clearly labelled as under assessment.
Should I show cost per tonne?
If you can calculate it honestly, yes, because sophisticated climate investors will calculate it anyway. State the basis: this deck prices net customer cost after gas savings across installed sites. If your cost per tonne is high today, show the curve that brings it down rather than omitting it.
What if my payback is longer than three years?
Then the service model does the arguing. Kelvinworks keeps the customer decision at no capex and pays itself back over a seven year contract, so the customer payback and the project IRR are different numbers on the same slide. Long payback with no capex still sells; long payback with capex is a grant application.
Can the allocation donut be edited after export?
Yes. The donut is one of the nine chart kinds that export as native, editable PowerPoint charts in the editable PPTX format, so the $6M split can be reworked in the room. PDF export renders slides as fixed images instead, which suits the send ahead copy.
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