
The Readiness Dimensions are a structured way to evaluate:
✅ Whether your startup is prepared for the next funding stage
✅ What internal gaps you need to close before raising
✅ How to position your business to align with capital sources
They help you:
Readiness tells us how far you can go right now—and how to get to the next level.
✔ Do you have the right team for this stage?
✔ Are roles and incentives aligned?
Why it matters:
Investors back teams, not tech. Without a credible and complementary founding team, funding stalls—especially at Series A/B.
✔ Is your tech validated in lab or field (TRL 3–7)?
✔ Have you documented performance, reliability, or IP?
Why it matters:
Tech risk is capital risk. The further you are on the TRL scale, the easier it is to attract institutional or strategic capital.
✔ Is the market clear, large, and growing?
✔ Are early adopters visible and reachable?
Why it matters:
VCs and corporate partners look for addressable, reachable, and burning markets. If your market thesis is fuzzy, your valuation will be too.
✔ Do you have pilots, LOIs, or first customers?
✔ Is your go-to-market strategy designed and resourced?
Why it matters:
This is your proof of relevance. It tells investors that someone is willing to pay—not just test.
✔ Do you know how much to raise, from whom, and for what milestones?
✔ Is your pitch aligned with your archetype?
Why it matters:
Investors fund de-risked opportunity. If your ask isn’t grounded in a milestone-based capital plan, you’ll either under-raise—or burn trust.
✔ Is your model robust? Do you have CAC/LTV projections, unit economics, and burn scenarios?
✔ Have you benchmarked margins against your model type?
Why it matters:
Your financials should tell a story: How you use capital, how it converts into growth, and when you hit breakeven.
✔ Is your revenue model clear, recurring (or predictable), and scalable?
✔ Do you have early revenue or a tested pricing structure?
Why it matters:
Capital allocators look for repeatable mechanics, not one-off sales. If your model doesn’t scale, your capital won’t either.
✔ Are you plugged into the right accelerators, partners, or strategic players?
✔ Do you have advocacy or access in your domain?
Why it matters:
ClimateTech and DeepTech are ecosystem games. Partnerships de-risk go-to-market and build legitimacy fast.
✔ Are you managing legal, ESG, and reputational risks?
✔ Do you report on impact and compliance?
Why it matters:
Especially in ClimateTech, institutional investors expect early signs of governance maturity, including sustainability disclosures and impact frameworks.
✔ Do you have IP, data moats, regulatory advantages, or network effects?
✔ Is your edge persistent and hard to replicate?
Why it matters:
No matter how good your product is, if someone with more capital can copy it, your value will shrink in every investor’s eyes.
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Ready when you are—let’s close the Readiness Gap.