Funding Readiness Checker
Are you ready to raise? Tick what's true for your startup and get an honest readiness score — Not Ready, Angel-ready or VC-ready.
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Funding Readiness
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Not Ready Yet
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You're too early for outside funding — and that's fine. Focus on building the product and getting your first real users instead of pitching. Traction is what unlocks the next conversation.
Don't pitch before you're ready
Raising too early burns your best investor introductions and dents your confidence. Investors back traction and team far more than ideas and decks — so before you spend weeks pitching, it helps to see honestly where you stand. This checker scores your startup against the signals that actually move investors and tells you plainly whether you're not ready yet, ready for a small angel round, or strong enough to approach seed funds.
Common questions
What do investors actually look for?
Earlier than people think, it's mostly the team and traction. A working product with real, growing users — and ideally revenue — beats a beautiful deck every time. Market size, metrics and a clean cap table matter, but they support the story; they don't replace traction.
Should every startup raise money?
No. Many great businesses are better off bootstrapping on revenue and keeping full ownership. Raise only if you need capital to capture a fast-moving, large opportunity that you can't fund from cash flow — and you're comfortable with the growth pressure that comes with it.