Financial Forecasting
Pre-Seed & Seed Funding for Financial Forecasting Startups
We back founders building software for finance teams: faster closes, better risk decisions, and models people can trust, including for industries whose numbers don't fit a template.
Beta Boom Perspectives
Where we're looking in financial forecasting
Finance teams are asked for faster, better answers on shrinking timelines. These are the areas where we see founders making headway.
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Accounting and close
A close that drags on
Usage-based pricing, multi-year contracts, a few entities, and a few currencies all make revenue hard to book. The close drags and people question the numbers. We want to meet founders who make the books fast and right for companies that don't fit a standard setup.
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Risk and credit decisions
Underwriting that still runs on manual review.
Lenders, insurers, and finance teams still make credit and risk decisions by reading statements, filings, and applications by hand, which makes approvals slow and uneven. We want to meet founders who turn those documents into a decision a person can defend and sign off on.
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Financial modeling
Financial models that are slow to build and hard to verify.
Deals, budgets, and investment decisions rest on spreadsheet models that take a long time to build, and errors can sit unnoticed until it's too late. We back founders who build the model from the source documents and show where each number came from.
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Industry-specific forecasting
Forecasting for critical industries: finance, construction, logistics, and manufacturing
General planning tools assume a software company's revenue model, and many industries run on drivers those tools don't handle. A lender's losses follow credit quality and interest rates, a contractor's cash depends on project milestones and change orders, a freight company's margin moves with fuel and lane volume, and a manufacturer's costs follow input prices and seasonal demand. We want to meet founders who know one industry or use case well enough to model it.
Founders
we're
looking for in
Financial Forecasting
Who We Want To Back
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Founders who have run the close. You've worked in finance, or sat with the people closing the books each month, and you know where the numbers break.
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Founders who show their work. You can explain how each number in a forecast was built, and your customer's CFO can trace it back to the source.
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Founders who earn the CFO's trust. Finance buyers move carefully and remember mistakes. You start with one team, prove the numbers, and let the results make the case.
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Founders with a unique insight. You've seen a pattern in how companies plan that others miss, and you can say what it is in two sentences.
An Open and Transparent Process
We've been founders, and we remember how it feels to wait on an investor. So we built our process around what we wished we'd gotten. Here's what to expect.
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No Warm Intro Needed
We welcome direct applications. Nobody gets a head start from a referral, so you can skip the hunt for an intro.
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A Response Within a Week
You'll hear back within a week, either a pass or an invitation to talk. Either way, you'll know where you stand.
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Conversation First
Skip the rehearsed pitch. We'd rather talk through what you're building, where you want to take it, and learn about what got you where you are.
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We Come Prepared
We take every meeting seriously. We’ll never show up distracted or unprepared. Your time is valuable, and we treat it that way.
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Mutual Fit Matters
Taking on an investor is a long-term relationship. Ask us hard questions and take the time you need to decide if we're the right partner.
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Diligence in 4 to 6 Weeks
Our diligence process typically takes about 4 weeks. If we decide to pass along the way, we'll tell you quickly so you can get back to building and raising.