Founder Toolkits
Founder toolkits are the financial models, templates and checklists a founder would otherwise build from scratch, ready to use.
Service within Cohort Venture Partnering
How we help with Founder Toolkits
Every founder rebuilds the same spreadsheet, badly, at two in the morning.
Ship the models that get rebuilt every time
Financial model, cap table, runway and hiring plan, built properly once so a founder is not rebuilding them badly at two in the morning.
Include the checklists
Diligence readiness, the statutory calendar and the month-end close, as lists you can work through rather than principles you have to interpret.
Make them usable without us
Documented, with the assumptions labelled, so they work in the hands of someone who did not build them.
Keep them current
Updated as rules and market norms change, because a template carrying last year's thresholds is worse than no template.
More services within Cohort Venture Partnering
Government Scheme MatchmakingWhich Indian government schemes a company is actually eligible for, and what applying really requires.
Investor MatchmakingIntroductions to investors whose thesis, stage and cheque size actually fit the company.
Masterclasses and ClinicsWorking sessions and clinics for cohorts: the practical finance and capital knowledge founders are expected to already have.
FAQ
Questions founders ask about Founder Toolkits
What is in the toolkits?
Financial models, a cap table template, runway and hiring planners, a diligence readiness checklist, the statutory calendar and a month-end close checklist.
Are they free?
Several are available to download from the resources library. The deeper ones come with the cohort programmes and the advisory engagements.
Can a founder use them without help?
That is the point. They are documented and the assumptions are labelled. Where a founder wants a second opinion on their own version of the numbers, the clinics exist for that.
Do these replace advice?
No. A template is a structure, not a judgement. It saves the hours of building and leaves the hours of thinking, which is the right way round.
What our research says about Founder Toolkits
I ask every founder we work with to build a mini-P&L for each demand channel: fully loaded cost, pipeline generated, and, critically, CAC payback.
Further reading
The people behind Founder Toolkits
Founder Toolkits is run by the studio team: one multidisciplinary team whose pods work in tandem, matched to the sector and the stage the company is in.
Impact, Growth & MSME pod
Led by Sanskriti Jhaveri
Lead - Growth & Partnerships, Impact Consulting. Growth and impact for India's MSME base.
See the pod structureWhat usually runs alongside this
- Masterclasses and ClinicsWorking sessions and clinics for cohorts: the practical finance and capital knowledge founders are expected to already have.
Investor ReadinessThe model, the deck and the market case that survive a second meeting, prepared before the raise, not during it.
Fundability AssessmentAn honest read on how fundable a company is right now, and the specific things standing between it and a term sheet.
