Translate an investor pitch deck into Spanish
Upload your pitch deck as PowerPoint or PDF: Manuce routes it to Métis, its finance specialist engine, and returns it in Spanish in the original format, layout included. Before it reaches a fund in Madrid or Mexico City, a few Spanish-specific points deserve a check, starting with how large sums are written.
What it costs
For a investor pitch deck of about 1,800 words, into Spanish:
To understand, internal use.
Ready to send, by the financial specialist.
Cross-checked. For documents that commit you.
Price for one language, original layout included. VAT not applicable — article 293 B of the French General Tax Code (CGI). The exact quote, based on your file's word count, is shown before you pay.
Spain or Latin America: who is the deck for?
A deck pitched to a Madrid fund and one pitched to an investor in Bogotá or Mexico City are not written quite the same way. Everyday vocabulary differs: ordenador in Spain, computadora in Latin America; móvil versus celular; ronda de financiación versus ronda de financiamiento. Investors understand both, but the wrong variant suggests a deck built for another market.
Forms of address matter too. In Spain a group can be addressed as vosotros, which is not used in Latin America, where ustedes is the norm. In a pitch deck the safest option is to avoid addressing the reader at all: write about the company (Buscamos 1,5 millones de euros) rather than to the audience.
Manuce does not list an explicit choice of variant, so look at the free sample to see which terms come out, and review the marked words before sending.
Large numbers and the word “billion”
This is the costliest mistake in a Spanish deck. An English billion is a thousand million, which in Spanish is mil millones. The Spanish word billón means a million million. A market sized at “$3B” therefore becomes 3.000 millones de dólares, never 3 billones, which would inflate it a thousandfold.
- Separators: Spain uses a decimal comma and a point (or space) for thousands,
1,5 M€,2.000 millones; Mexico follows the English convention,1.5 millones. - Abbreviations:
M€in Spain; Latin American finance also usesMMfor millions. - Grammar: un millón de usuarios, 1,2 millones de usuarios. The “de” is required after millón, unlike mil usuarios.
- Quarters: “Q3 2025” becomes 3T 2025 or tercer trimestre de 2025.
Check every figure on the market slide and the ask slide, one by one.
Slide titles, length and typography
Spanish runs longer than English. A short title such as Traction fits easily as Tracción, but Go-to-market strategy becomes Estrategia de salida al mercado: tight text boxes will overflow or shrink the font.
Question titles, common in decks, gain an opening mark: “Why now?” is written ¿Por qué ahora?. Make sure your template font renders ¿ ¡ ñ á é í ó ú properly.
Spanish headings use sentence case: Modelo de negocio, not Modelo De Negocio. Month names are lower case (marzo de 2025). Much venture-capital jargon stays in English in the Spanish-speaking ecosystem (ARR, CAC, burn rate, pre-money), so check in the sample and the final file that these terms appear the way you want.
What Manuce returns, and what it does not do
Your deck is handled by Métis, Manuce's finance specialist engine, suited to the vocabulary of fundraising, metrics and projections. A PowerPoint file comes back as PowerPoint and a PDF as PDF, layout included; a typical deck of around 1,800 words is delivered within minutes and kept in your client area. The quote appears as soon as you upload, based on the exact word count, and one paragraph is translated free so you can judge it before paying. For a deck going to investors, the Professional level is the one meant for documents ready to send.
What Manuce does not do:
- it cannot read a scanned PDF with no selectable text;
- it does not produce sworn or certified translations: if a fund requires a certified version of your articles of association or shareholders' agreement, you need a sworn translator;
- it translates your figures, it does not adapt them: a valuation or market size built for one country stays as you wrote it.
Preparing the file and checking before sending
- Send the editable source: the PowerPoint rather than its PDF export, so you can fix a slide that overflows.
- Get text out of images: a chart pasted as a screenshot is not text; rebuild it as a native chart if its labels need to be in Spanish.
- List names to keep unchanged: company, product, funds you cite, public schemes (for instance ENISA or CDTI in Spain). Check them in the free sample, then in the translation.
- Review the figure-heavy slides: market, traction, use of funds, with the mil millones rule in mind.
- Scroll through every slide: clipped titles, bullets wrapping to three lines, ¿ and ¡ displaying correctly.
In practice
- Export your deck as PowerPoint or as a PDF with selectable text.
- Upload it to Manuce, choose Spanish and view the quote.
- Check the free sample: vocabulary, proper names, sums.
- Pay, download the Spanish deck and review every slide with figures.
Frequently asked questions
How do you say “billion” in a Spanish pitch deck?
As “mil millones”. The Spanish “billón” is a million million, so writing “2 billones” for a $2B market overstates it a thousandfold. It is the first thing to check in the translation.
Should the deck be in European or Latin American Spanish?
It depends on the investors you are targeting: vocabulary (financiación or financiamiento) and number separators differ. Look at the free sample to see which variant you get and review sensitive terms before sending.
Will my PowerPoint keep its layout?
Yes, the file comes back as PowerPoint with its layout. Spanish is longer than English, though, so check titles and narrow text boxes for overflow.
Are terms like ARR, CAC or burn rate translated?
These are often left in English in Spanish-speaking venture capital. Manuce does not take glossaries, so check in the free sample and then in the translation that they appear as you want.
A fund wants a certified translation. Can Manuce provide it?
No, Manuce does not produce sworn or certified translations. A pitch deck rarely needs one, but if corporate documents must be certified, use a sworn translator.
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