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Pre-Seed

Pre-seed funding strategies, investor expectations, and early-stage startup preparation

Data Room

The Data Room Checklist for Pre-Seed and Seed Startups

A data room checklist for pre-seed and seed startups: what to include at each stage, how to organise it, and the gaps that slow a round down.

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Data Room

The Startup Data Room, Field by Field: What Investors Actually Open in 2026

A startup data room is not a folder of PDFs. The field-level structure investors expect in 2026, what they open first, and what stalls a round.

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Benchmarks

The State of Early-Stage Capital 2026

Record global venture volume, brutal early-stage selectivity. The 2026 data on round sizes, graduation rates and diligence cycles.

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Readiness Score

The Fundraising Readiness Score: How Investors Rate You Before the First Call

Investors score you before you speak. The four-dimension readiness framework, what each level means, and the six tasks that raise your score.

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Benchmarks

Pre-Seed and Seed Benchmarks 2026: Round Sizes, Valuations, Dilution

The 2026 numbers on pre-seed and seed rounds: median raise, pre-money and post-money valuations, dilution, and why Carta and PitchBook disagree.

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Data Room

The Pre-Seed Data Room: Five Documents That Unblock a First Check

At pre-seed you need five documents, not fifty. The minimum viable data room, and the IP gap that kills more rounds than anything else.

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Readiness Score

Team, Product, Market, Deal: The Four Dimensions of a Fundable Company

The four dimensions every early-stage investor assesses, what separates a 2 from a 4 in each, and why three strong dimensions and one weak one still fails.

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Due Diligence

Proportionate Diligence: A Pre-Seed Checklist That Is Not a Series A Checklist

A pre-seed diligence checklist sized to a pre-seed cheque: what to verify in days, what to skip, and the four items that are never optional.

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Readiness Score

Fundable vs Fundraising: The Difference Investors See in 90 Seconds

Some companies are raising money. Others are fundable. The distinction is visible almost immediately and it has very little to do with traction.

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Market Data

New VC Funds 2026: 89 Funds Writing First Cheques

89 early-stage VC funds that closed new vehicles in 2026 across AI, deeptech, fintech and B2B software, with stage, first cheque and thesis.

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