RaiseRoom helps you prepare your raise properly: your story, your numbers and the right investors, ready before the first conversation. In hours, not weeks.
01 · Truth Matrix
Five chapters, a score each, three gates, and the one next step with the highest leverage. A market analysis built bottom-up, a competitor analysis: who they compare you to, and where you win. Your business model, challenged before an investor does. Every fact with source, confidence and date.
02 · Equity Story
Eleven sections, each with an action title and its sources. Then the talk track and the questions a VC will fire at you, answered from your own numbers. When the story and the numbers stand, a lightweight pitch deck is easy to build.
03 · Investors
Your top 200 from 2,800+, graded against your Truth Matrix. Behind each fund: the partners, what they look for, and how to approach them. From longlist to the pipeline: outreach, briefing, term sheet.
The expensive way, €30k
You are raising for the first time. You do not know where to start, what to prepare, or what investors will look at. The people who do know sit behind gatekeepers: advisors and interim CFOs, weeks of lead time, a five-figure cost.
“What was missing? Expertise, plain and simple.”
The do-it-yourself way, 2 a.m.
Your runway says it is time to raise, right when the product has momentum. So you sit there at 2 a.m. with a spreadsheet and a half-built financial model, when you would rather focus on product, sales and marketing.
“I don't have the time to do this myself, and a fundraising advisor costs too much.”
One shot, no second chance
You feel it before the first calls: the story is not tight yet, and investors notice you are not at 100 percent. A first meeting is rarely granted twice. If it goes badly, that investor does not come back this round.
“Seed we closed on relationships. For the Series A they wanted numbers we did not have ready.”
You bring what exists. Out comes the standard an investor holds you to, encoded from €50M+ of raises.
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Co-founder, fundraising substance, sales and marketing
Startup CFO and interim mandates, financing rounds run from the company side. Owns the advisory rubric inside the product and the brief Finn works from. Mentor and coach at the Frankfurt School Entrepreneurship Center, supports teams at the Frankfurt Accelerator. €50M+ helped raise for startups, from the company side of the table.
Co-founder, product and operations
Former consultant, then COO in a startup, where he ran fundraising, the finance function and the operating processes. Today also an operating founder of his own consumer brand, so he brings current practice rather than theory. Owns the product, the research pipeline, the investor workspace and the operations behind them.
Every startup that plans to raise at some point. Most of all founders who want to start their raise soon, or who are mid-raise and notice the conversations are not going the way they imagined. In truth you are always in fundraising mode, so it pays to always be properly prepared.
No. There is no marketplace here and no investor logged in. The investor list is yours: your top 200 from 2,800+ DACH investors, graded against your facts, and you decide who ever hears from you.
The rollout price is €499 instead of €999: one-time, six months of access, excl. VAT. We walk you through it on the demo call.
One-time payment, six months of access. After six months, access ends. An extension is always possible.
You bring what exists. Out comes the standard an investor holds you to, encoded from €50M+ of raises. In hours, not weeks.
You get the first conversation with an investor exactly once. If it goes badly, that investor does not come back this round, and every week you spend recovering is runway.
ChatGPT does not always have the latest information, it does not have all the information, and it cannot think your raise through end to end. A lot of what it produces is generic or invented, and you are never working from a single source of truth. RaiseRoom is built on exactly that: your facts, each with source, confidence and date.
Finn is your 24/7 sparring chat inside RaiseRoom. He answers from your own numbers: the questions a VC will fire at you, where you break first, and the one next step with the highest leverage.
Then we will say so. A founder who has no raise in sight does not need this yet, and selling it to them helps nobody. Come back when there is a date in the calendar.
No, and we do not claim it. Readiness improves the signal an investor evaluates. It does not decide their fund strategy, their timing or their thesis.
Thirty minutes with Andreas, on your company instead of a demo account. You see where your raise stands, and if it is too early, we say so.
Not ready to talk? Once or twice a month we write about what actually gets asked in investor meetings.