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:

• Move from idea to pilot
• From pilot to Series A
• From Series A to scaled deployment

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Readiness tells us how far you can go right now—and how to get to the next level.

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📊 The 10 ClimeNow Readiness Dimensions

1. Leadership Readiness

✔ 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.

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2. Technology Readiness

✔ 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.

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3. Market Readiness

✔ 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.

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4. Commercial Readiness

✔ 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.

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5. Fundraising Readiness

✔ 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.

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6. Financial Readiness

✔ 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.

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7. Business Model Readiness

✔ 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.

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8. Ecosystem Readiness

✔ 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.

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9. Governance, Risk & Sustainability Readiness

✔ 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.

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10. Defensibility Readiness

✔ 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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🚀 Why Founders Should Care

• 🧭 These dimensions become your pre-due diligence checklist
• 🛠️ They highlight what to fix before you fundraise
• 📈 They form the basis of a compelling pitch deck + capital stack design

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💸 Why Investors Use These Signals

• Reduce time-to-thesis
• Match capital intensity with maturity
• Identify outliers early
• Price risk properly across archetypes

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