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Kanop

Turn proof into a story investors can follow.

Kanop uses AI agents and satellite data to assess and monitor risk in nature-based investments. Its investor deck held every fact. It opened on the raise, put the reasons to act after the ask and kept the strongest customer case in the annex. We rebuilt the order around one argument in two weeks.

Situation
Fundraising
Audiences
Investors
Leadership involved
CEO and Co-founder
Work
Investor narrative, copy, deck design
The cover of the Kanop investor deck

The problem

The ask came before the reasons.

Kanop shared its working deck with us.

It opened on the raise, then moved through context, problem, solution, technology, market, team and financials. The reasons to invest now came after the ask. The strongest customer case sat in the annex. Nothing told investors why the founders had started the company.

Some slides were dense. The order left investors to connect them.

The shift

From invisible risk to investable asset.

We rebuilt the deck around one idea. Nature carries value and risk that financial markets cannot yet see, and Kanop makes both measurable. The platform became the answer to that gap, and every section after it had to prove the answer.

The decisions

Seven moves in two weeks.

We restructured the narrative, rewrote the copy and redesigned every page with the founders, then reviewed the full deck with Romain Fau. Each move answered a question an investor would ask in the room.

  1. 01Open on why the founders started Kanop.
  2. 02Give investors a reason to act now, on the second page.
  3. 03Show why nature investment is changing now.
  4. 04Merge problem and solution into one table, with project developers and forestry added.
  5. 05Move the customer case from the annex into the main story.
  6. 06Show the world if Kanop wins, then what the raise makes possible.
  7. 07Say what Kanop wants from an investor.

Kanop’s working deck

  1. The raise
  2. Context
  3. Problem
  4. Solution
  5. Technology
  6. Go-to-market
  7. Team
  8. Value proposition
  9. Vision
  10. Traction
  11. Business model
  12. Market
  13. Competition
  14. Financials
  15. The ask
  16. Why now
  17. Annex, with the customer case

The final deck

  1. Why we started Kanop
  2. Why investors should act now
  3. Nature as the next financial frontier
  4. The pricing gap and the vicious cycle
  5. Why this is changing now
  6. Each stakeholder’s pain, and how Kanop helps
  7. The agents and the platform
  8. The operating-system vision
  9. Proof, with the customer case
  10. Model, go-to-market and market
  11. Financials
  12. If Kanop wins
  13. The raise and what it enables
  14. Team
  15. What we want from an investor
  16. From invisible risk to investable asset

Highlighted pages are new or moved. The raise now sits after the proof, and the reasons to act come before it.

The deck

The same content, in a clearer order.

The new deck opens with the founders. Romain Fau explains why they started Kanop, in his own words and signature, and states the mission in one line, “Make natural capital measurable, investable, and protected, at scale.”

Context follows, then one table that shows each stakeholder’s pain beside how Kanop helps. The platform, the vision and the proof come next, with the customer case in the main flow. The deck closes on what Kanop wants from an investor and the world it wants to build.

The Why We Started Kanop page, signed by the founder

What changed

Reasons first, then the ask.

Kanop now has a deck for live meetings that runs from why the founders started to what they want from an investor. The reasons to act sit on page two. The customer case sits in the main story, and the raise follows the proof. Every fact from the working deck is still there.

Romain left the review ready to take the deck to investors.

“I’m impressed by what you did. It’s amazing.”

Romain Fau, CEO and Co-founder, Kanop, on seeing the final deck in the review