The 10 Fundraising Templates for Founders

The 10 Templates and Databases That Matter and The Claude Second Brain That Reads All of Them at Once

There are documents you should be able to hand over the moment someone asks at any point in the life of your startup.

And this isn’t only about the moment someone asks. These are the documents the whole life of the startup runs on.

This is a curated collection of the 10 Templates and Databases every founder should have ready, always. They matter on the day you raise and they matter far more on all the ordinary days in between.

Here's what's inside:

1. Pitch collection: 90+ decks from the most successful startups ever, from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Perplexity to Airbnb and Revolut, plus fill-in templates from Sequoia and Creandum

2. Investors list: a database of 1,000+ angels, family offices, and VCs investing all around the world, filterable by check size, stage, and sector

3. Data room template: the complete Creandum structure investors expect the moment they start diligence.

4. Cap table plus SAFE dilution template: the template to check the right dilution and manage how your SAFEs dilute you as they convert

5. Valuation model: a defensible way to frame what your company is worth before the number comes up

6. Financial model template: the complete Creandum’s SaaS Model

7. Runway and burn template: how much you spend a month and how many months of cash that leaves

8. KPI and metrics dashboard calculator: the few numbers that describe the health of your business, computed right

9. Investor update template: the monthly note that keeps investors warm between rounds (by 500 Global)

10. The Startup Press Access Database: 500+ verified press touchpoints, journalists and publications that cover startups

And then there’s the part that makes this different from every other startup toolkit floating around.

The package comes with two things on top:

1. A prompt that interviews you inside Claude and turns your answers into a single company-context.md, which Claude then uses to fill any template from your real numbers

2. A Cowork setup: drop all ten documents in one folder, point Claude at it, and ask anything about your startup

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Inside you will find:

1. The Five Documents That Get You Funded

2. The Three That Tell You If You’ll Survive the Year

3. The Two That Keep Investors and Press on Your Side

4. How to Fill Any of Them Without Starting From a Blank Page

5. How to Ask Your Files and Get One Answer

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💰 Investor Database & Tools
↳ The Family Office List — 1,000 family offices actively writing cheques. Used by 5,000+ founders raising their round.

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