{"id":"a60ffe28-1d6d-4ad0-8db3-5a7889d25239","slug":"startup-fundraising","kind":"skill","name":"startup-fundraising","summary":"From first pitch to closed round — the founder’s fundraising playbook.","owner":"SkillMedev","repoUrl":"https://github.com/SkillMedev/startup-fundraising","license":"MIT","licenseTier":"permissive","trust":"community","stars":0,"match":null,"fewStars":true,"format":"skill","createdAt":"2026-06-19T21:48:26.000Z","addedAt":"2026-10-21T10:15:04.944Z","logoUrl":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/298078254?v=4","linkOnly":false,"collection":null,"skillPath":null,"categories":["writing"],"tags":["business","claude","fundraising","investors","skill-me","startup"],"runtime":"binary","local":true,"cloudCapable":false,"cloudCapability":"unknown","cloudReadyOnPlatform":false,"needsApiKey":false,"reviewed":false,"syncedAt":"2026-10-28T01:59:17.640Z","sample":false,"url":"https://conduits.dev/tools/startup-fundraising","language":"","transports":["stdio"],"install":{},"requirements":{"env":[],"upstreamMayCharge":false},"tools":null,"readme":"# Startup Fundraising\n\n**For founders raising a round: pitch, narrative, market, investor updates, and term sheets.** — built in-house by [Skill&nbsp;Me](https://skillme.dev/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pack-startup-fundraising).\n\nReach for this when you're a founder running a fundraise and want every artifact investors actually judge you on. Land the cold intro and tell a fundraising story that earns the meeting, size the market defensibly, pressure-test your Series A readiness and data room, and decode the term sheet before you sign - then keep investors close with crisp monthly updates. The end-to-end founder playbook from first outreach to closed round.\n\n## Install\n\n- **Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor (connector):** [install the whole pack from skillme.dev](https://skillme.dev/pack/startup-fundraising?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pack-startup-fundraising) — one connection, then ask for any skill by name.\n- **As files for Codex, Cursor, or Claude Code:** `npx @skillme/cli add fundraising-narrative market-sizing fpa-model vc-pitch-email series-a-readiness term-sheet-explainer investor-update-writer --target all`\n- **With the skills CLI:** `npx skills add SkillMedev/startup-fundraising`\n- **Manually:** copy any `skills/<slug>/SKILL.md` into `.agents/skills/`, `.cursor/skills/`, or `.claude/skills/`.\n\n⭐ **If this is useful, star the repo** — it's how we gauge what to build next.\n\n## Skills in this pack\n\n- **[Fundraising Narrative](skills/fundraising-narrative/SKILL.md)** — Builds the five-beat narrative spine - origin, insight, wedge, traction, vision - that answers why now, why you, and why this before any deck exists.\n- **[Market Sizing](skills/market-sizing/SKILL.md)** — Builds a defensible TAM/SAM/SOM market-sizing model with bottom-up and top-down triangulation and a low/base/high sensitivity range.\n- **[FP&A Operating Model](skills/fpa-model/SKILL.md)** — Builds a driver-based FP&A operating model linking business inputs to P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow outputs.\n- **[VC Pitch Email](skills/vc-pitch-email/SKILL.md)** — Writes cold investor outreach under 100 words - a subject line built on the company's strongest verifiable metric, a personalized why-them opening line, traction before the ask, and a low-friction meeting request - delivered as three subject options, the email body with word count, and a follow-up line for five days later.\n- **[Series A Readiness](skills/series-a-readiness/SKILL.md)** — Audits whether a seed-stage company clears the Series A bar - benchmark metrics, narrative, team, and data room - and produces a red/yellow/green readiness scorecard with a 90-day gap-closing plan.\n- **[Term Sheet Explainer](skills/term-sheet-explainer/SKILL.md)** — Decodes every clause of a VC term sheet into plain English, marks each term founder-favorable, market-standard, or investor-favorable, and flags deviations in priority order.\n- **[Investor Update Writer](skills/investor-update-writer/SKILL.md)** — Drafts a monthly or quarterly investor update - TL;DR, consistent metric block (revenue, growth rate, burn, runway), highlights, honest lowlights, a specific ask, and next-period priorities - in a repeatable one-screen format.\n\n## License\n\nMIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). Skills are portable `SKILL.md` files; the canonical\ncopies live in the [Skill&nbsp;Me catalog](https://skillme.dev/browse?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=pack-startup-fundraising).\n"}