Adam Renklint

Adam Renklint is co-founder and chief executive of Pitch, a Berlin, Germany, company whose presentation software lets teams build slide decks together in real time and, with its Pitch Agent tool, generate decks from a prompt using their own templates. He was Pitch's chief technology officer until he took over as CEO in January 2024.

Teaching Himself to Program

He started programming at about 11 or 12, writing loops in BASIC, and earned his first money at 14 building a website for an artist, he told MobileAppDaily. His father, a pragmatist, told him computers were tools and not a career, so Renklint spent his first adult years working in call centers and leading customer support teams. He later began freelancing as a mobile app and front-end developer.

Building Wunderlist at 6Wunderkinder

Freelancing led him to 6Wunderkinder, a startup of 11 or 12 people that needed help with specific projects. He was living in Sweden but moved to Germany to try startup life. "It turned out to be the best decision I ever made," he said. He led the web team for its Wunderlist to-do app as the company grew to about 70 people serving millions of users, and after Microsoft acquired Wunderlist he spent two years there as a senior engineer.

Co-Founding Pitch With Seven Others

He and several colleagues then left Microsoft to start Pitch, which had eight co-founders, with Wunderlist founder Christian Reber as its first chief executive. "Initially, we didn't assign specific roles. We just wanted to build, be creative, have fun, and work with people we trusted," Renklint said. He took on hiring and technical direction, became lead engineer and then CTO, and kept coding every week. "Programming is my therapy," he said. The team built Pitch around live collaboration, so that working on a deck would feel like sitting together in an office.

Resetting Pitch as CEO

In January 2024 Reber stepped down as CEO and Renklint took over, as Pitch cut about two-thirds of its staff and set out to become profitable and grow on its own revenue, TechCrunch reported. Renklint wrote on LinkedIn that "the expectations set when we raised venture funding were simply too high." He added: "As co-founders and company leaders we are deeply sorry that this new path means saying goodbye to many Pitch employees today." Investors gave up most of their equity in the restructuring, and Pitch was profitable by mid-2024, according to estimates from the research firm Sacra.

Launching Pitch Agent

In May 2026 Pitch launched Pitch Agent, which builds a deck from a prompt or a document using a team's own templates and brand system, so the result can be edited and presented inside Pitch. "Anyone can generate slides with AI now, and that's kind of the problem. The output all looks the same," Renklint wrote on his site. "Your deck has to look like your company, not like everyone else's."