fundraising-stage-selector SKILL.md skillA
fundraising-stage-selector from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/fundraising-stage-selector@git:20260705.a28c4cePins git:20260705.a28c4ce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/fundraising-stage-selector/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260705.a28c4ce, committed Jul 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 3,414 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Use when a founder is deciding whether and how to raise. Triggers on "am I pre-seed or seed", "how much should I raise", "what stage am I", "what valuation can I get", "should I raise now or wait", "is my round too big". Sets the round, amount, and valuation envelope that every later step depends on.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Fundraising Stage Selector Every later step - deck, targeting, terms - is wrong if the stage is wrong. The most common founder error is raising at the stage they wish they were at, not the one their evidence supports. This skill fixes the stage first. ## When to use this skill Reach for it before writing a deck or emailing an investor, whenever the founder asks how much to raise, what valuation is realistic, or whether to raise at all yet. It produces the envelope; everything downstream is calibrated to it. ## Read the stage off evidence, not ambition Place the company by what is *proven*, not what is hoped: - **Pre-seed**: a team and an insight, maybe a prototype or design partners. You are selling the founder and the bet. Typical raise $250k-$1.5M. - **Seed**: a shipped product and the first signal of pull - early revenue, retention, or week-over-week usage growth. Typical raise $1.5M-$4M. - **Series A**: a working engine. Repeatable acquisition, real retention, and a metric that scales (often ~$1M+ ARR for SaaS, with strong growth/retention). Typical raise $6M-$15M. If the evidence straddles two stages, you are at the lower one. Investors price …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/fundraising-stage-selector@sha256:c41f1aaa41f03549The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260705.a28c4ce, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 5, 2026.
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| git:20260705.a28c4ce latest | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 3,414 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 3,422 B | A | view |
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_unqw54pwckmqlem7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/fundraising-stage-selector GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c41f1aaa41f03549bac8a23229a3e2c7b99c62d04219a05ef5b59bf139211f0a
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.