Investor Readiness Score
Paydia · Seed
53/100
Building
The foundations are there, but several areas need work. Most businesses at this level need three to six months of preparation before opening a round.
How to read this report. This measures how ready your business is to be examined by an investor. It does not predict whether you will raise. A business can be fully ready on every measure here and still be turned down, because that decision belongs to the investor and rests on things a score cannot capture: their thesis, their timing, the market they believe in, and their read on you.
What this report does control for is the avoidable part. Investors regularly back companies that have gaps, as long as the founder knows what they are and can explain how they are being closed. The problem is a gap you have not seen yourself, because you then find out about it in front of an investor. Everything below is what diligence would raise, so that you can deal with it first.
2 blockers found
Fix these before you speak to another investor.
No formal financial records
With nothing beyond bank statements, there is nothing for an investor to review. Revenue, margin and burn cannot be confirmed, so the figures in your deck remain unverified and the process tends to stop at the first request for data.
No documented cap table
Undocumented ownership regularly delays or stops a term sheet. Promises made early to advisers, developers or friends tend to surface during legal review, when they are most expensive to resolve.
Score composition
Where the 47 points were lost.
The six dimensions are weighted differently, so the same shortfall costs more in some areas than others. The figures below show how many of the 47 points each dimension accounts for. The largest is not always the lowest score.
Financial Integrity accounts for 13.4 of those points, more than any other dimension. It carries 20% of the total and scored 33.
Financial Integrity20% of score
33
13.4
points not awarded
Revenue Quality20% of score
47
10.6
points not awarded
Governance & Structure16% of score
47
8.5
points not awarded
Capital Readiness18% of score
67
5.9
points not awarded
Market & Moat12% of score
60
4.8
points not awarded
Team & Execution14% of score
73
3.8
points not awarded
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- Every answer that cost you points, with what to do about it and how an investor is likely to read it.
- What is already working, in each of the six areas.
- Your five priority actions, ordered by how much each one improves the score.
- A consistency review. 3 pairs of your answers do not agree with each other.
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