Am I VC-fundable?
Run a structured diagnostic against market, team, traction, business model, differentiation, fundability, and momentum.
Venture readiness for high-potential emerging ecosystems
Pre-VC helps startups become fundable before they raise.
Know if you are ready to raise, fix what investors will reject, and run a better fundraising process with a platform built around VC decision criteria.
Africa
MENA
Latin America
Southeast Asia
India
Emerging Europe
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Readiness score
MarketStrong
TractionNeeds proof
FundabilityData room gap
MomentumImproving
Diagnostic
Workbooks
Pre-IPO
Exchange Fit
Strategic positioning
The readiness layer between founders and venture capital.
Pre-VC is not another course, accelerator directory, or pitch-deck template. It is a structured operating system that turns VC expectations into founder workflows.
What do I need to fix?
Get a weakness map, milestone plan, missing diligence checklist, and practical education tied to the work.
Who should I approach?
Match to angels, accelerators, grants, pre-seed funds, seed funds, strategic capital, and regional investors.
How should I structure?
Plan the entity, cap table, IP, investor instrument, and expansion sequence for major capital markets.
Who can host my market entry?
Find vetted founder-hosts, angels, suppliers, customers, and co-creation partners in target cities.
What VCs are looking for
Reverse-engineer investor underwriting.
VCs evaluate whether a startup can become large, durable, and financeable. Pre-VC turns those evaluation points into platform modules.
Market
Is this a large, growing, painful market that can return a fund?
Founder quality
Is the team unusually capable, persistent, fast-learning, and suited to the problem?
Traction
Revenue, usage, pilots, retention, LOIs, waitlists, community growth, or other proof.
Business model
Can this become a scalable, high-margin business?
Differentiation
Why will this company win through product, data, distribution, regulation, brand, or execution?
Fundability
Clean cap table, sensible valuation, clear ask, strong narrative, and investor-ready data room.
Momentum
Are the numbers, customer proof, and execution improving month over month?
Founder journey
From seed readiness to public-market readiness.
Pre-VC should adapt to the founder's stage and recommend the next projects the team can start, assign, and complete.
Seed to Series A
VC readiness, first data room, pitch, metrics, cap table hygiene, and investor CRM.
Series B to C
Repeatable GTM, management team, board cadence, expansion readiness, and metric quality.
Series D to F / Growth
Global structuring, controls, audit preparation, secondary liquidity, strategic capital, and institutional readiness.
Pre-IPO
Exchange pathway mapping, public-company operating system, pre-IPO data room, governance, and investor relations.
Platform pillars
Everything a startup needs before approaching institutional capital.
Startup Diagnostic
Structured assessment across market, traction, team, business model, financials, legal readiness, pitch, and fundraising history.
- Venture readiness score
- Weakness map
- Recommended milestones
- Fundraising timeline
- Suggested investor category
Fundraising Readiness Dashboard
Track the materials investors expect before the first meeting.
- Pitch deck
- Financial model
- Cap table
- Product demo
- Customer proof
- Data room
- Market sizing
- Use of funds
- Investor CRM
- Monthly metrics
Founder Workbooks And Projects
Team-visible projects that founders can start from their org dashboard, with owners, missing items, AI review, expert review, and progress status.
Pitch Deck Builder And Review
Review urgency, venture-scale market, traction clarity, fundraising ask, story flow, metric credibility, and support for claims.
Investor Data Room Builder
Organize company overview, incorporation documents, cap table, model, metrics, customer contracts, product proof, bios, IP, terms, and updates.
Metrics And KPI Tracking
Track SaaS MRR and churn, marketplace GMV and liquidity, consumer retention, fintech transaction volume, compliance readiness, and unit economics.
VC Fit Matching
Recommend capital sources by stage, geography, sector, check size, traction level, business model, founder profile, and impact criteria.
Investor CRM
Manage target investors, intro status, meeting notes, follow-ups, pipeline stage, feedback, rejection reasons, and next actions.
Mock Investment Committee
Generate an investment memo, key risks, likely objections, recommended improvements, and a fundraise now / wait / not VC-fit verdict.
Practical Education
Short modules tied to tasks: how VCs think, market sizing, seed decks, runway, SAFEs, investor updates, and diligence.
Expert Marketplace
Curated experts for deck review, financial modeling, legal setup, GTM, product strategy, fundraising coaching, fractional CFO, and technical audit.
Global Structuring And Expansion
Help founders understand holding companies, operating entities, subsidiaries, IP ownership, hiring footprint, tax review triggers, and expansion sequencing.
Cap Table And Instrument Studio
Explain SAFEs, convertible notes, priced rounds, preferred shares, warrants, option pools, MFN, pro rata rights, liquidation preferences, and dilution.
Market Exposure Programs
Run 3-month founder-hosted market residencies for expansion learning, customer discovery, supplier engagement, co-creation, and investor visibility.
Events, Livestreams, And Podcasts
Host founder market briefings, demo days, VC office hours, podcasts, livestreamed sessions, and replay libraries that feed CRM and readiness workflows.
Capital markets readiness
Pre-IPO work starts years before the listing decision.
Series F is not automatically the final private round. Pre-VC should help growth-stage teams understand whether they are ready for public-market scrutiny or another private capital pathway.
Pre-IPO Data Room
Shows the founder team what exists, what is missing, what is stale, and what needs expert review.
- Audited financials
- Board minutes
- Shareholder register
- Risk factors
- Material contracts
- Investor relations materials
Public Company Operating System
Helps a private company rehearse public-company discipline before listing.
- Board and committee cadence
- Internal controls
- Monthly close
- Risk register
- Quarterly reporting rehearsal
- Disclosure workflow
IPO Venue Mapper
Compares routes such as NYSE, Nasdaq, London, Euronext Amsterdam, JSE, HKEX, TWSE, TSE, B3, and Shanghai STAR.
- Eligibility gaps
- Adviser map
- Comparable companies
- Exchange programs
- Timeline
- Next workbooks
Exchange Partner Track
Prepares founders for exchange-linked programs, office hours, director education, IPO-readiness bootcamps, and adviser introductions.
- Program fit
- Application readiness
- Governance education
- Capital markets events
- Partner follow-up
- Progress tracking
Scenario modelling studio
Self-hosted modelling tools for every founder decision.
Pre-VC should help founders model product, MVP, service, market, costing, pricing, growth, churn, unit economics, fundraising, and pre-IPO scenarios with auditable open-source engines.
Market and segment
Estimate reachable market, prioritize launch segments, compare public comps, and expose the assumptions that drive upside.
Grist, OpenBB, PyMC, BGE-M3MVP and service cost
Model build cost, operating cost, support load, service capacity, automation level, and delivery bottlenecks.
Grist, PyMC, MetabasePricing and unit economics
Compare packaging, price sensitivity, gross margin, CAC payback, break-even customers, and runway impact.
PyMC, DoWhy, EconML, GristGrowth and churn
Forecast acquisition, conversion, activation, retention, churn risk, intervention lift, and cohort decay.
PostHog, StatsForecast, LightGBM, CatBoostFounder workbench
Spreadsheet-style assumptions and scenario templates that founders can inspect, edit, and compare.
- Grist
- Metabase
- Apache Superset
Modelling engines
Statistical, Bayesian, causal, and tabular engines run as internal services, not opaque black boxes.
- StatsForecast
- PyMC
- DoWhy and EconML
- LightGBM and CatBoost
Model governance
Every scenario run should keep inputs, datasets, model version, outputs, and confidence notes.
- MLflow
- DVC
- Feast
Hugging Face models
Use open models for forecasting, small-data tabular prediction, embeddings, and document retrieval.
- Chronos, TimesFM, Moirai
- TabPFN
- BGE-M3
Template
Unit Economics And Runway
MetricBaselineDownsideFundraise
Runway4.8 mo3.2 mo18 mo
Gross margin70%55%72%
Break-even9 mo14 mo11 mo
Global structuring
Help founders build companies that can raise, expand, and scale globally.
Pre-VC should help founders prepare for major capital and expansion markets while routing jurisdiction-specific decisions to qualified experts.
New York
US capital markets, enterprise buyers, fintech, media, and global investor access.
San Francisco
Silicon Valley venture norms, Delaware-style expectations, technical talent, and startup network density.
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil market entry, local operating structure, regional partnerships, and Portuguese-language go-to-market.
London
UK holding and fundraising considerations, European access, fintech, climate, and global finance networks.
Amsterdam
EU expansion planning, talent access, data protection review, and European operating footprint.
Hong Kong
Asia capital access, cross-border trade, regional holding structures, and Greater China market adjacency.
Taiwan
Hardware, semiconductor, supply-chain, and technical partnership expansion pathways.
Shanghai
China market-entry questions, local partnerships, licensing, and regulatory review triggers.
Tokyo
Japan enterprise sales, strategic investment, localization, and partnership-led expansion.
Johannesburg
Southern Africa scaling, corporate partnerships, financial services, and regional operating hubs.
Company structure readiness
- Holding company versus operating company
- Subsidiaries, branches, and local registration
- IP ownership and licensing map
- Founder vesting and equity cleanup
- Cross-border employment and contractor review
- Tax, data protection, and sector-regulation triggers
Cap table and capital structure
- Founder ownership and dilution scenarios
- Option pool and advisor grant planning
- SAFE and convertible note conversion
- Priced round and preferred share economics
- Warrants, pro rata, side letters, and MFN clauses
- Liquidation preference and anti-dilution education
Market exposure programs
Founder-hosted residencies for learning a market from inside another startup.
A founder can offer to host vetted founders in their city and startup, or request to be hosted in a target market for 3 months.
Offer market access
Publish city, sector, startup context, capacity, preferred guest profile, target synergies, and confidentiality boundaries.
Request immersion
State expansion objective, customer targets, supplier needs, fundraising goals, co-creation thesis, and expected outputs.
Build trust and symmetry
Verify founders, surface references, manage conflicts, align expectations, and create shared visibility for vetted angels and investors.
Track real progress
Measure customer meetings, pilots, supplier conversations, investor introductions, partnerships, capital raised, and follow-on plans.
What founders can achieve
- Understand a market through an operating founder
- Find expansion and distribution partners
- Meet early customers and local suppliers
- Co-create products, bundles, or regional plays
- Engage angels, investors, and strategic backers
Trust infrastructure
- Founder and company verification
- Reference and program-history checks
- Information symmetry for both sides
- Conflict and confidentiality disclosures
- Weekly progress reports and outcome records
Events and media
Turn programming into deal intelligence and founder momentum.
Events, livestreams, and podcasts should create visibility, but also produce structured follow-up, investor signals, and reusable founder content.
Market briefings
Founder-host sessions on cities, sectors, suppliers, customers, and expansion constraints.
VC office hours
Investor Q&A, thesis matching, mock investment committees, and structured follow-up.
Demo days
Accelerator showcases with tracked investor interest and data-room follow-through.
Podcasts
Founder journeys, market-entry lessons, investor explainers, and clips founders can reuse in marketing.
Livestreams
Live workshops, panels, supplier sessions, and replays indexed into the knowledge base.
Angel roundtables
Vetted angels and operators discover startups through curated themes and market exposure programs.
AI agent network
Specialized agents that turn founder inputs into investor-ready outputs.
Pre-VC should not rely on a single chatbot. The platform uses focused agents with human approval gates and structured artifacts.
Readiness Diagnostic Agent
Scores fundability and creates the weakness map.
Market Cartographer Agent
Evaluates market size, urgency, competition, and why now.
Metrics Analyst Agent
Finds momentum, gaps, and investor-grade KPI narratives.
Deck Review Agent
Checks whether the pitch answers what investors care about.
Data Room Auditor Agent
Flags missing diligence documents and risky inconsistencies.
Investor Fit Agent
Ranks capital sources by fit, not raw database volume.
Mock IC Agent
Creates investment memos, objections, and readiness verdicts.
Ecosystem Scout Agent
Maps regional accelerators, grants, angels, VCs, and strategic partners.
Global Structure Agent
Maps entity, IP, hiring, investor-market, and expansion structure questions.
Cap Table Strategist Agent
Models ownership, dilution, option pools, SAFEs, notes, warrants, and priced rounds.
VC Instrument Explainer Agent
Explains SAFEs, notes, preferred shares, liquidation preferences, side letters, and founder risk.
Template Librarian Agent
Recommends legal, operations, finance, marketing, sales, expansion, and investor-relations templates.
Market Exposure Match Agent
Matches host offers and guest requests by city, sector, objectives, trust, and strategic synergy.
Trust And Vetting Agent
Checks identity, company proof, references, conflicts, and missing information before visibility expands.
Event Programming Agent
Builds agendas, speaker briefs, livestream runbooks, and follow-up workflows.
Podcast Research Agent
Creates episode briefs, question maps, clips plans, and founder resource links.
Workbook Orchestrator Agent
Recommends stage-appropriate projects, creates task sequences, and flags missing artifacts.
IPO Venue Mapper Agent
Ranks exchange pathways and partner programs against company stage, metrics, structure, and governance.
Pre-IPO Data Room Agent
Audits pre-IPO materials for missing, stale, inconsistent, or expert-review-sensitive items.
Public Company OS Agent
Finds gaps in board cadence, reporting, controls, investor relations, and public-company communications.
Founder template library
Reusable operating assets for every part of the company journey.
Templates should be practical, editable, and connected to expert review where legal, tax, securities, or employment decisions are involved.
Legal
Founder agreement checklist, IP assignment, advisor agreement, NDA, board consent, data room checklist, and term sheet comparison.
Operations
Operating cadence, hiring plan, contractor onboarding, vendor review, compliance calendar, expansion plan, and market exposure residency plan.
Finance
Runway model, unit economics, cap table scenario, fundraising tracker, investor update metrics, monthly close checklist, and pre-IPO reporting pack.
Marketing
Positioning brief, ICP worksheet, launch plan, content calendar, case study, PR brief, and partner marketing plan.
Sales
Discovery script, sales pipeline tracker, enterprise pilot plan, pricing proposal, sales forecast, and customer reference plan.
Investor relations
One-pager, monthly update, board deck, demo day script, diligence Q&A, IPO venue brief, market exposure investor briefing, and objection tracker.
Subscription model
Priced as fundraising infrastructure, not generic startup content.
Free
Basic diagnostic, limited templates, and readiness checklist.
Founder
Full dashboard, deck builder, data room, KPI tracking, investor CRM, recommended workbooks, template library, and learning modules.
Pro / Fundraise
AI or expert deck review, investor matching, cap table modeling, workbook gap analysis, market exposure applications, event visibility, and readiness reports.
Premium / Advisory
Human mentor sessions, investment memo review, pre-IPO review, global structure review, exchange partner prep, market exposure concierge, and expert credits.
Pre-VC accelerator
A selective program powered by platform diagnostics.
We help promising startups become investor-ready before they raise.
Program format
- 8 to 12 weeks
- Cohort-based
- Venture-readiness milestones
- Mentor sessions
- Investor simulation
- Final demo day or investor preview
Revenue model
- Founder subscriptions
- Accelerator fees
- Corporate and government sponsorship
- University and ecosystem licensing
- VC-backed scouting partnerships
- Equity or warrants only after a high bar
Build the startup investors can underwrite.
Pre-VC prepares founders, organizes diligence, simulates investor objections, and routes the right startups to the right capital.
Start with readiness