What problem does it solve?
Founders often approach fundraising without knowing whether VCs will fund them, how much to raise, on what instrument, or which term-sheet clauses to fight. This Skill designs the fundraise end-to-end before any deck or outreach exists, grounding every recommendation in a 625-source corpus of investor essays, fund data, and market benchmarks.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Fundability Diagnosis: Runs a 12-point self-assessment against what VCs actually evaluate, including fund-returner arithmetic and check-size math, delivering a raise-now, fix-first, or different-capital verdict.
- Narrative & Round Design: Builds the fundraising narrative memo (archetype, why-now test, compression ladder) and the round spec (three converging sizing methods, valuation via the ⅓ rule, dilution budget, milestone map).
- Term-Sheet Analysis: Scans term sheets clause-by-clause for economics and control red flags with market prevalence data, plus SAFE hygiene and conversion modeling.
- Use Case: A technical founder building an AI-infrastructure tool asks whether to raise a $3M seed on a SAFE. The Skill assesses fundability, constructs the devtools positioning narrative, sizes the round against current seed benchmarks, and flags risky terms when paper arrives.
Quick Start
Use the vc-strategy skill to assess whether my startup is fundable and design the round size, instrument, and valuation for our seed raise.
