Get funding and customers with strategic branding and design

Agency Quality . Lean Packages

Is Elix for You?

Many brilliant tech solutions get lost in translation… We’re here to transform your innovation into an impactful brand and clear pitch, ensuring you secure the funding you need to take your solution to the people who need it most, faster.

Services

Tailored for early-stage startups

No useless deliverables, only the essential to get results

MVB (Minimum Viable Brand)

The branding essentials to stand out, tell your story, connect with your audience, and build trust:

  • Vision/Mission
  • Customer Persona
  • UVP and Positioning
  • Visual Identity

We focus on the foundations, and the visuals will follow that

UVP Refinement
Logo & Identity
Business Cards
Email Signature
Wireframes
Design
Development
Support
Investment
Sales
Pitch Competitions
Accelerator

Landing Page Design and Development

We design and build landing pages with user experience, functionality and conversion top of mind, ensuring they align with your brand and convey what your startup is all about.

They’re also stunning, but that’s a bonus!

P.S. You’ll own the domain and the website fully, and will be able to edit the text and images yourself.

UVP Refinement
Logo & Identity
Business Cards
Email Signature
Wireframes
Design
Development
Support
Investment
Sales
Pitch Competitions
Accelerator

Pitch Deck Structuring and Design

We not only design beautiful pitch decks, but also help you structure and adapt them for every audience and context.

From 3-min pitch, to startup competitions, meeting with a VC or a sales call, we got your back!

We deliver the final file in Canva or similar, so you and your team can make small edits on the go

UVP Refinement
Logo & Identity
Business Cards
Email Signature
Wireframes
Design
Development
Support
Investment
Sales
Pitch Competitions
Accelerator
Sounds good, but who are you?

Process

We don't waste your time

Our three-step process streamlines communication and feedback, ensuring we get the full picture of your goals and product, while using as less time of your busy schedule as possible

01

Discovery
3-5 days
Brain Download

With help of prompts and questions, we get a full brain download about your startup, innovation, goals, challenges, market and competitors. This can be done via voice messages, writting, a call… whatever is more convenient for you

Defining Success and Roadmap

We meet for a 45m call to define what success looks like for this project, defining goals and coming up with a roadmap for our collaboration. We also clarify any questions about the brain dump you sent us before

02

Execution
4-6 weeks
Strategy

Why should investors/clients choose you? why should they care? why now? With this, we lay the foundations of your brand, landing page and pitch decks

Designing

We create the designs and iterate, with streamlined feedback loops that help us understand each other and effectively reach a solution that works and fits your startup

Building Assets

After the visual part is approved, we build all the assets, including physical and digital business cards, mail signature, landing page and editable pitch decks. We use tools like Canva, Google slides and Wordpress whenever possible to facilitate small changes from anyone on your team, no matter the skill level

03

Handover and Support
4 weeks
Final Files Handover

We handover all the files in different formats, including the editable versions and print-ready versions, so anyone can pick up from where we left off if needed

Style guide

Create a style guide that outlines colors, typography, and visual elements so you can maintain consistency across all channels

1 Month Support

We offer 1 month support for print files adjustments, small landing page updates, and anything we might have forgotten. We know your brain is always running at 100 miles an hour (ours is too!), so we’re happy to stay flexible.

About Elix

Brilliant ideas deserve brilliant design and a story that connects with real people.

Elix Design Studio was born from a freelancer’s desire to use her skills to create meaningful change in the world. After 4 years as an independent brand strategist and designer, she started working part-time with AstroLabs in startup accelerator programs, where she quickly fell in love with its fast-paced innovative environment, finding purpose in helping impactful innovations scale and communicate their value more effectively.

Elix was born from her expertise in branding and design combined with what she’s learning daily working alongside startups, program managers, instructors and investors. Instead of the standard (and expensive!) branding and design services most agencies offer, we have solutions that truly solve startups’ challenges, while fitting within their tight budget.

We believe life-changing solutions deserve to be seen, and we’re here to help you bring your innovation’s true value to light!

Sofia Silva

Founder & Brand Strategist

Marta Viana

Brand Designer

Marina Mello

Admin & Operations Assistant

Why Us?

We practice what we preach

Insider Knowledge

Our founder works daily alongside instructors, program managers and investors in startup accelerator programs. She brings a level of context and insider knowledge other designers won't match

Lean Operations

We lead by example: Our operations are as lean as possible – just like a startup! – so we are able to deliver quality at reasonable prices while still fairly compensating our team.

Impact Focused

Outcomes and impact come first. We don't do something just because it's the proper way of designing, or it works for most companies. Our focus is on what works for lean startups.

Agile Execution

Startups never stop changing, and neither do we. We remain adaptable to match your evolving needs, prioritizing asynchronous communication to save you time and maximize deep work.

Agency Quality

We deliver agency quality by being smart about how we work, not cutting corners. Instead of unnecessary processes, we use AI and automation to eliminate busywork, allowing our team to focus entirely on strategic thinking and impactful design.

Mission-Driven

We choose to support founders tackling the world’s biggest challenges, focusing our expertise mainly on climate tech and health innovations. We are deeply invested in your success and aligned with your mission.

Insider Knowledge

Our founder works daily alongside instructors, program managers and investors in startup accelerator programs. She brings a level of context and insider knowledge other designers won't match

Lean Operations

We lead by example: Our operations are as lean as possible – just like a startup! – so we are able to deliver quality at reasonable prices while still fairly compensating our team.

Impact Focused

Outcomes and impact come first. We don't do something just because it's the proper way of designing, or it works for most companies. Our focus is on what works for lean startups.

Agile Execution

Startups never stop changing, and neither do we. We remain adaptable to match your evolving needs, prioritizing asynchronous communication to save you time and maximize deep work.

Agency Quality

We deliver agency quality by being smart about how we work, not cutting corners. Instead of unnecessary processes, we use AI and automation to eliminate busywork, allowing our team to focus entirely on strategic thinking and impactful design.

Mission-Driven

We choose to support founders tackling the world’s biggest challenges, focusing our expertise mainly on climate tech and health innovations. We are deeply invested in your success and aligned with your mission.

Testimonials

Here’s what our partners have to say

“Sofia’s team is very professional and absolutely fabulous on all levels. They approach the vision with empathy and understand the clients’ perspective very well. It’s a joy to be accompanied by them in order for your brand to grow. Thank you for all your work and support, you’re a gem.”

Ahmad Allahgholi (Aki)

Founder & Director, CORAlliance
Branding
Landing Page
Pitch Deck
Landing Page
UI/UX Design
Icon Design

“Working with Elix is by far one of the best experiences me and my team has had. We are a startup that is competing and partnering with some very big industry leaders. Elix’s work allowed us to punch well above our weight! Very creative, attentive, and diligent! Easily understood our product and flexible approach. Definitely would recommend.”

Shahad Choudhury

Founder / CIO, Openbrix
Branding
Landing Page
Pitch Deck
Landing Page
UI/UX Design
Icon Design

Special Offer

Sign up for a FREE Pitch Deck Audit

Apply for a 45min call with our founder Sofia, where she will audit your pitch deck live, giving you her best recommendations to improve it quickly and without design skills. We’re only opening 5 spots per week, so be quick to grab yours.

Apply Now
P.S. This is 100% no commitment. She will only talk about our services IF you ask her to

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+351 939 137 173 (only whatsapp)
sofia@elixdesignstudio.com