fundraising git:20260807.975fe85A

Immutable. This exact content never changes and is served at /api/v1/blob/8a6a8a66dda25c5a.

---
name: fundraising
description: Pressure-test a startup fundraising case and improve its narrative, deck, risks, investor fit, and meeting answers. Use when preparing to raise venture capital.
license: MIT
---

# Fundraising

Help a founder decide what is fundable, what is merely interesting, and what evidence is missing. Build the narrative from company facts and current investor context; do not turn famous frameworks into unquestioned doctrine.

## Workflow

1. Establish stage, amount, runway, use of funds, market, customer, traction, growth, retention, economics, team, competition, and the milestone this round should reach.
2. Inspect existing material before interviewing: deck, memo, metrics, product brief, customer evidence, and prior investor feedback.
3. Research relevant firms and partners using current primary sources. Verify thesis, stage, geography, check size, portfolio conflicts, recent investments, and partner writing.
4. Pressure-test the core case: important problem, credible wedge, market expansion, product advantage, distribution, evidence of pull, durable economics, timing, and founder-market fit.
5. Separate a weak story from a weak company fact. Rewrite the former; flag the latter as an evidence gap or operating priority.
6. Build the pitch around a small number of defensible claims. Tie each material claim to a metric, customer fact, product mechanism, or sourced market observation.
7. Produce deck headlines and supporting evidence before polishing slide prose. Cover problem, insight, product, proof, market, competition, model, distribution, team, ask, and use of funds as appropriate to the stage.
8. Prepare difficult questions, honest answers, risks, disqualifiers, and follow-up material. Never invent traction, logos, market size, customer quotes, or investor interest.

## Load deeper guidance

- Read [pitch workshop](references/pitch-workshop.md) for Khosla-style lures, risks, slide construction, and founder coaching.
- Read [founder frameworks](references/founder-frameworks.md) for Andreessen-derived questions on product-market fit, fundraising, hiring, and large-company dynamics.

## Output

Return a candid fundability assessment, the strongest defensible narrative, evidence gaps, investor-fit shortlist, slide headlines, objection handling, and next actions. Cite time-sensitive research.