AI Funding Calculator

Before you start

The calculator reads your monthly burn rate and team size from your startup questionnaire. Fill those in first. Without a burn rate it has to estimate your spending from team size (about $5,000 per person per month), and without a team size it starts from a generic $50,000 a month. Your own numbers give a much better answer.

If you have them, current revenue, customer acquisition cost, lifetime value and market size from your profile are used too.

Answer the questions

The calculator asks one question at a time. You can go back to change an answer before you click Calculate.

1. Runway. How many months the money should last: 6, 12, 18 or 24.
2. Equity. The percentage of the company you are willing to give for this round, between 1 and 100.
3. Projected revenue. Yes or no.
4. Projected revenue amount. Only asked if you answered yes. Enter the monthly revenue you expect to reach 12 months from now.
5. International expansion. Whether you plan to expand into other countries during this runway.
6. Top 3 expense categories. Pick exactly three from Team, Marketing, Tech, Operations, R&D, Legal, Infrastructure and Sales.

How the number is worked out

The calculator takes your monthly burn, adjusts it for your expense categories and expansion plans, and multiplies it by the runway you chose. It then adds a safety buffer of at least 20%. The buffer is larger if you are pre-revenue, expanding internationally, or asking for 18 months or more, since those plans tend to cost more than expected.

Valuation follows from the equity you entered. If you raise $500,000 for 20%, the post-money valuation is $2,500,000 and the pre-money is $2,000,000.

The figures are calculated the same way every time. AI is only used to write the recommendations and risk factors that go with them.

Read the results

• Funding Ask is the amount to raise, buffer included.
• Pre-Money and Post-Money Valuation are your company's value before and after the investment.
• Dilution is the share of the company new investors would own.
• Monthly Expenses Breakdown splits your monthly burn across all eight categories. Your top three share 70% of it and the other five share the rest.
• Revenue Projections show expected revenue for each month of the runway. With a projected amount, revenue climbs in a straight line from today's figure to that amount by month 12. Without one, it grows 10% a month from your current revenue.
• Cash Flow Analysis shows starting and ending cash, the month you break even, whether the runway is long enough, and a month-by-month table.
• Recommendations and Risk Factors are written for your startup from the numbers above.

All amounts are in US dollars.

Export or recalculate

Use the export button on the results to download a PDF or an Excel file, save the raw data as JSON, or copy a text summary to your clipboard.

Your last result is saved and shown when you come back. Click Recalculate to clear it and answer the questions again, for example after you update your burn rate. Investor Finding also shows this result on its Overview tab.

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