Founder's Desk, volume 1

The Data Room Test

The Indian founder's funding-readiness manual: what investors check, what you must have on file, and what it costs when you don't.

What it does for you

Walk into a first investor conversation with the numbers, documents and cap table an investor's counsel will ask for, and know which of the twelve readiness gaps you still have.

Inside

1. Part 1Why readiness, not pitching, decides the round
2. Part 2The company you are raising into
3. Part 3Numbers investors read
4. Part 4Instruments and terms
5. Part 5The round itself

At the back: Master checklist by stage; four worked models (runway, dilution across three rounds, pre-money from post-money, break-even); what you'd otherwise pay; statute index; a glossary of 200-plus investor terms; the data-room folder map and readiness scorecard; a ninety-day readiness plan; four templates.

Written for

First-time founders of Indian private companies at pre-seed or seed who are preparing for a first investor conversation, and the co-founder or first finance hire who will run the data room.

Also in Founder's Desk, all seven (₹3,499) and Every EzComply handbook (₹11,999).