For pre-seed and seed founders raising their first institutional round
Friends and family backed you. Institutional investors will check you.
We audit your data room and public presence the way an investor’s diligence team will. You fix the gaps before outreach starts, so no momentum is lost once investors are interested.
A 30 minute call. Your audit is delivered within 7 working days of receiving your full data room.
Founders who have worked with Funden
Your first round ran on trust. The next one runs on evidence.
No amount of introductions or meetings can make up for a poor data room and public presence.
Interest peaks after a good first meeting. That is when investors ask for the room and look you up.
One audit. Everything a diligence team will open.
This is the stress test every founder needs to run before they speak to investors and raise.
We test what you claim against what your documents and public presence support, benchmarked to your stage, location and industry.
Financials
Accounts, model and quoted metrics agree
Cap table and equity
Every SAFE, note and option, fully diluted
Corporate, legal and IP
Incorporation, approvals and IP assignment
Team and contracts
Vesting, employment and contractor terms
Customers and commercial
Contracts and revenue behind your claims
Product and technology
Docs, roadmap and technical claims
Regulatory and data protection
Licenses and privacy, where they apply
Traction and execution
User data and proof you are executing
Public presence
Website, LinkedIn, blogs, podcasts and press
What you get
- A full audit report. What we found, what it means and how to fix it. Not just a score.
- Benchmarked to you. Your stage, location and industry.
- Investor objections and FAQs. Specific to your company, with the evidence to answer each one.
- A debrief call. We agree the next steps and who runs the fixes.
Investor readiness auditCOMPLETENESS BY AREA
How it works
Book a readiness call
30 minutes on your round, your timeline and where your room stands. If an audit is the wrong next step, we will tell you.
Share your data room
Google Drive, Dropbox or whatever you use today. No room yet? Start with the free coach.
We run the audit
Your findings arrive within 7 working days of receiving the full room.
Debrief, then fix
We walk through the report and agree next steps. The fee is credited toward your first month of a full engagement if you sign within 30 days.
Founders we have prepared for institutional money
“We’re a complex, seed-stage deep-tech company, so we needed investors who could understand both the opportunity and the risk. Funden quickly figured out where we fit, cast the net in the right places, and got to work fast. The process was light weight, efficient, and easy to work through. Today, I’m thrilled with the calibre of investors and support we’ve been able to attract.”
“Asynchronously we created a new pitch deck from scratch, with a waaaayyy better story than I had before. Storytelling is key to raise funds today.”
“[The Funden team] put a great deal of time into understanding Cased, its product, mission and competitive landscape. Fundraising is intense and you can often feel alone.”
Built for the step between your first checks and your first institution
This is for you if
- You raised from friends, family or angels, or you are raising for the first time
- You are planning a pre-seed or seed round with institutional investors
- You do not want to waste valuable time trying to find the gaps yourself
- Investor conversations are about to start and your room needs to be ready before the first meeting
This is not for you if
- You only want a list of investor introductions
- You want to pay a success fee on what you raise
- You are raising Series A or later. Email us about a full engagement instead.
- You want a guarantee that you will raise
Questions founders ask first
Will you introduce us to investors?
The audit is about readiness, not introductions. Introductions only help if the room holds up when the investor opens it. We do not broker deals and we do not take a success fee.
When you are ready for outreach, we can refer you to Metal, a platform for investor research, outreach and relations, where you get 25% off any plan after booking a demo. Or our team can build out your Metal pipeline and manage it for you. Funden is a Metal partner and earns a share of referred subscriptions.
What does the audit cost?
A fixed, one-off fee, agreed on your readiness call before any work starts. If you sign a full engagement with us within 30 days, the audit fee is credited toward your first month. This applies to audits booked by December 31, 2026.
We do not have a data room yet. Is it too early?
No. Start with the Funden Data Room Coach. It is free, runs inside Claude, and helps you set up the folders and record what you already have. Email team@funden.com with the word coach and we will send it.
How long does it take?
Your findings arrive within 7 working days of receiving your full data room. The debrief call follows.
We are not based in the US. Can you still help?
Yes. Most founders we work with are in the US, and we also work with founders across Europe and the rest of the world. Tell us where you are incorporated on the call. If you have entities in more than one country, the audit covers the group structure too.
Will the audit tell us we are ready to raise?
It tells you what is in your room, what is missing and what to fix first. Nobody can promise you a raise, and we will not.
Who sees our documents?
Your files stay private and are held only for the length of the audit or engagement. When the work ends, all data is deleted, and we confirm this on request. We are happy to sign an NDA if you want one, and our terms cover privacy in full.
Start Q1 with nothing for diligence to find.
Our Q1 cohort fills on December 31. The next intake opens in Q2 2027.