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Everything you need to raise your first round

Practical templates, playbooks, and guides built from real conversations with pre-seed founders. Free to use, no signup required.

Playbook

The Pre-Seed Fundraising Playbook

A complete 40-page guide covering investor targeting, deck structure, warm intro tactics, data room setup, and close mechanics for first-time founders.

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Template

Cap Table Template (Google Sheets)

A clean, formula-driven cap table template covering founders, advisors, SAFEs, convertible notes, and ESOP pool. Handles pre-money and post-money scenarios.

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Checklist

Pre-Seed Data Room Checklist

27 documents and signals that investors expect to find in a well-prepared data room. Organised by category with notes on format, recency, and what each document communicates.

27 items PDF + Notion
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Framework

Warm Intro Mapping Framework

A structured method for auditing your first-degree network, scoring connection strength, and identifying the fastest path to a warm intro for each target investor.

Google Sheets Interactive
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Templates

Investor Outreach Email Templates

12 email templates covering: cold outreach, warm intro requests, post-meeting follow-ups, check-in nudges, and round closure updates. Includes notes on personalisation.

12 templates PDF + Notion
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Calculator

Dilution & Ownership Calculator

Model multiple fundraising scenarios side by side. See how different note structures, valuations, and pool sizes affect founder ownership at Series A and beyond.

Google Sheets 5 scenarios
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