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Future Fundraise Model
Free
How to forecast your fundraising till you exit. How much do you need to grow at each and every stage, and how much funding do you need to support that?
- Plan your required raise now
- Plot path to exit
- Free tool in Excel
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What
What is the Future Fundraise Model?
It is an Excel spreadsheet that enables you to plan your fundraising plan to exit. Specifically, it helps you figure out how much you need to raise now, by unintuitively starting at your exit and working back till now.
This will enable you to achieve a few goals:
- How much do you need to raise at this round
- How much do you want to sell your startup for
- How much do you need to raise and over how many rounds to get to the exit
- The quantifiable metrics you need to deliver to obtain a successful raise
- Communicate your plan logically to investors
WHY
Why did I invent this?
I was running a workshop for DTAC’s accelerator programme in Bangkok on fundraising. I asked everyone to write down how much they wanted to raise and then proceeded to go around the room and ask the founders “why they were raising that amount?” No one had an answer.
I came up with an idea “what if we start with how much founders want to exit for and then work their way backwards to figure out how much they need to raise now?”
I drew a chart on paper with an exit at the top right and their current status at the bottom left and had them map out in rounds how they get from now to exit.
After teaching this approach to many more founders, I nerded out and made this Excel to help others do it faster (with the math done for you).
who
Who Needs a Future Fundraise Model?
Everyone in startup-related land needs to know about this topic. So whether you are a founder, investor or advisor, why not have a little play with this!
Details
What Does the Tool Look Like?
Here are a few images to have a little gander at for your viewing pleasure.
Need
Why Do You Need a Future Fundraise Model?
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Have a Fundraising Plan
- Why why you need to raise $xm now
- Know what you need to achieve with this raise over 18 months
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Convince Investors of Your Raise Ask
- Investors always ask “why are you raising $xm?” and you don’t have a logical answer
- VCs know you need to deliver milestones, so showing them a plan will be compelling to them
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3
Gain Clarity On the Basics
- Founders never question “how much do I actually want to sell for?“
- How long it will take to build their startup
- How many rounds of capital and how much at each round
- What traction and key milestones need to be delivered over time
Plan Your Raise Backwards
Start at the exit and work backwards to now
- Set exit value/multiple to work from
- Triangulate total raise over rounds as you plan
- Use simple growth rates, ARPA, CAC assumptions
- See how much you need to grow in this round!
Plan Your Fundraise Forwards
See how funds are used
- How many people to hire (R&D, S&M, G&A)
- How much marketing spend to be used
- Set runway for each round (up to 8 rounds)
Understand How Funds Will be Allocated
Sense check by working forwards
- Set % growth and raise for each round
- See how the numbers appear quickly
- Compare against backwards plan to iterate
Visualise in Charts
3 sheets of charts
- Funding plan – Backwards
- Funding plan – Forward
- 2 charts to show revenue and raise per round
Need
Why is My Tool Worth Getting
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1
I Make Cool Things (and am capable)
- There is a lot of blah around by people who aren’t terribly good at Excel/PowerPoint etc
- You’ll see the attention to detail and actual thought put into what I gift you (so you aren’t wasting your time)
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2
My Free Tools Are Better Than What Some Charge For
- I only made tools because I couldn’t find anything I would use myself
- Even if you don’t ‘actually need the tool’, the point is to teach you concepts you can apply
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3
I Don’t Have a Hardcore Marketing Funnel
- I make tools to actually help founders
- You aren’t going to be hounded with emails to get you to buy things
- Whilst I do sell some stuff, seeing the quality I give for free is way better marketing than using fancy words to convince you
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Watch a Video on the tool
Here’s a 25 minute video to explain the future fundraise model tool to you.
If you’re a little lonely, you can always play it in the background and pretend you’re hanging out with me. Just saying 😉
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FAQs
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Once you uncompress, the ZIP file will remain, and you will see a new file (sort the download folder by date modified if confused).
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