What is the formula for how much to raise?

Monthly burn, including any missing founder salaries, multiplied by months to your next milestone plus six months of buffer to raise the next round, plus one-off costs the milestone needs.

Raising a round takes time. Six months of cash after the milestone lets you raise from strength instead of from a cash emergency.

What is the Round Ready Engine?

A self-service tool for founders preparing a raise. It has an Ask Calculator that checks your raise against your next milestone, and a Hard Question Lab that trains your answers to ten investor questions with the FLIP method. One payment of $67.

Founders and founding teams preparing a pre-seed, seed or angel round, or already in investor meetings, who want to walk in knowing their number and their answers.

Do you see my numbers or answers?

No. Everything you enter stays in your browser on your device. Nothing is uploaded or stored on this site.

Can I do this with ChatGPT or Claude?

A chatbot writes answers. This engine checks your ask with investor math and trains the answers against the words that lose investors, based on 19 years of fundraising work.

Will this get me funded?

No tool can promise that. The engine removes two of the most common reasons a meeting goes cold: an ask that doesn't add up, and an answer that sounds unsure.

While you decide, another founder is booking the meeting you want.

Startup ask calculator

Your ask is the first number an investor checks. Make it survive the check.

Investors divide your ask by your burn in their head. If the result falls short of a milestone plus time to raise again, the meeting is already over.

$67 One payment. Instant access. Yours to keep.

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To set your ask, multiply your monthly burn by the months to your next value changing milestone plus six months to raise again, then add one-off costs. The engine runs this for you and shows the gap.

Signs your ask is guesswork.

You chose a round number because others in your space raised it.

Asking too little is expensive too.

An ask that runs out before the milestone forces a bridge round on worse terms. An ask that is too high without a milestone reads as a founder who skipped the math.

Two tools. One method. Built from the rooms I sat in.

The Ask Calculator

Enter your burn, your milestone and the amount you plan to ask for. You see the real number your company needs, the gap, and the exact sentence an investor will say when they do the same math.

The Hard Question Lab

Ten questions investors use to test a founder. You build each answer with my FLIP method: Face, Link, Illustrate, Pivot. The lab flags the words that make you sound unsure, live, while you write.

Everything inside

The Ask Calculator, tied to your next value changing milestone
Ten hard investor questions, with what each one really tests
The FLIP answer builder with live weak phrase checks
A copy ready answer for every question you prepare
Your work saved on your device. Nothing is uploaded
Lifetime access to the version you buy

Secure Stripe checkout. Opens on this page. Access starts the second you pay.

Who built this.

19 years: in capital raising and startup advisory
500+: projects across fundraising, strategy and presentation work
$220K+: earned through Upwork and Fiverr, independently verified

Pitched on the 4YFN stage at MWC Barcelona 2023.

“Anna's work has directly impacted my company's ability to present a new program in a clear and concise manner that is immediately understood.”

Scott, Blue Equinox

“Anna is fantastic. The quality of the design work was excellent and she went out of her way to understand our concept and to help us improve our content.”

Idan Cohen, CEO & Co-Founder, Reflectiz

“Anna continues to be our 'go-to' when we have a presentation that needs to impress.”

Arik, Founder & CEO, WizeDrive

“We've been working with Anna for the past 2.5 years on dozens of projects... With her presentation, we were able to close new deals, onboard new customers and deliver outstanding training materials.”

Tal Nagler, Co-Founder, mybites.io

On stage and on air: 4YFN, MWC Barcelona 2023 · The She Leads Podcast · meet.capital Podcast · Africa FounderHaus · Entrepreneur Mirror

Why ChatGPT can't give you this.

AI will write you a confident answer. It has no idea which answer makes an investor stop listening.

These tools encode what I learned in conversations with hundreds of investors and donors, across 19 years of raising capital.

The calculator does the math investors do in their head. The lab trains the reflex they test with silence.

Questions founders ask first.

What is the formula for how much to raise?: Monthly burn, including any missing founder salaries, multiplied by months to your next milestone plus six months of buffer to raise the next round, plus one-off costs the milestone needs.
Why add six months?: Raising a round takes time. Six months of cash after the milestone lets you raise from strength instead of from a cash emergency.
What is the Round Ready Engine?: A self-service tool for founders preparing a raise. It has an Ask Calculator that checks your raise against your next milestone, and a Hard Question Lab that trains your answers to ten investor questions with the FLIP method. One payment of $67.
Who is it for?: Founders and founding teams preparing a pre-seed, seed or angel round, or already in investor meetings, who want to walk in knowing their number and their answers.
Do you see my numbers or answers?: No. Everything you enter stays in your browser on your device. Nothing is uploaded or stored on this site.
Can I do this with ChatGPT or Claude?: A chatbot writes answers. This engine checks your ask with investor math and trains the answers against the words that lose investors, based on 19 years of fundraising work.
Will this get me funded?: No tool can promise that. The engine removes two of the most common reasons a meeting goes cold: an ask that doesn't add up, and an answer that sounds unsure.

$67