Raise Ready is the fundraising system for founders who are serious about their round — a scorecard that tells you where you actually stand, investor matching built on 800+ real relationships, and a pipeline that shows you exactly where your raise is stuck.
Free to start, free to run your whole raise — no card, ever. This is phase one: five minutes to know exactly where you stand before anything else happens.
First investor added
Unlocked
First outreach logged
Unlocked
First meeting booked
Locked
First term sheet
Locked
Fundability Scorecard
68 / 100
What This Is
Raise Ready is the free starting point — a real scorecard, a working pipeline, and investor matching, all free, no paywall, no upsell. It's where you find out exactly where you stand before you're in the room. What comes after — content strategy, the syndicate, everything else in the Next Round Ready ecosystem — starts with a conversation, not a purchase.
How it works
Score your company across the 5 pillars investors actually evaluate: Team, Market, Traction, Business Model, and Fundraising Readiness.
Book a call to walk through your results. From there, we figure out the right next step for exactly where you are — never a purchase to get that conversation.
Track every investor through a pipeline built for fundraising, not sales, with follow-up reminders and progress milestones.
The Scorecard
Investors size you up in the first five minutes. The Fundability Scorecard grades you across the same 5 pillars they use — so you find your gaps before you're in the room, not after the meeting is over.
Fundability Scorecard
68 / 100
Investor Matching
Every other fundraising tool hands you a database and wishes you luck. Raise Ready pairs you personally through a booked investor match call, built on relationships developed over 100+ recorded investor interviews.
Investor match call booked
Thursday · 3:00 PM with Chris
Sequoia Scout Program
Pre-seed · B2B SaaS
Harlem Capital
Seed · Underrepresented founders
Recursive Ventures
Pre-seed · Data infra
The Pipeline
Every stage of a real raise, from the first name on your list to the term sheet on the table.
Avg days in stage
9.4
Across active founders
Top conversion
42%
Meeting Booked → Diligence
Median time to term sheet
11 wks
From first intro
Milestones
A raise is won in small wins strung together. Each milestone unlocks the moment you hit it — no cheerleading, just clear proof of momentum.
First investor added
Unlocked
First outreach logged
Unlocked
First meeting booked
Locked
First term sheet
Locked
100+
Recorded investor interviews
800+
Investors in the network
2,500+
Investors in the directory
The directory is updated monthly with new investors sourced from the Next Round Ready podcast and live founder conversations — so you're matching against people who are actually deploying.
Most fundraising tools are built by people who've never raised a round or sat across from an investor. Raise Ready is built from real conversations with the people writing checks.
Pricing
Every feature, no card required.
The Fundability Assessment and the full Raise Ready CRM are free — no card, no trial clock, no upsell to unlock features.
Five minutes and a free assessment tells you.