Lifecycle

Where the company is, what the next stage expects, and what is missing for it.

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Stages carry expectations. What a seed company is measured on and what a Series A company is measured on are different, and the gap between where you are and what the next round expects is knowable in advance.

This tracks the metrics that matter at your stage against the ranges investors at the next one look for, from your own books rather than from a survey.

Where everything sits

Lifecycle
Lifecycle
Current rung
Current rung
Stage readiness
Stage readiness
Retained ownership
Retained ownership
Capital efficiency
Capital efficiency
The ladder
The ladder

How to work this page

Confirm the stage honestly

It sets which measures matter. A company positioning a stage ahead of itself gets measured against expectations it will miss.

Read the gaps

Revenue, growth rate, efficiency and runway against next stage expectations. The gap is a work list.

Watch the leading measures

Growth rate and efficiency move before revenue does. They are the ones that indicate the next round is reachable.

Track time in stage

Time since the last round against remaining runway is the constraint everything else operates inside.

On a phone

Lifecycle on iPhone 15 Pro Max

Every figure from the desktop appears here, stacked rather than reduced. Tables scroll inside themselves so the page never moves sideways, and figures keep their separators and their alignment at every width.

Questions people actually ask

Where do the expectations come from?

Published benchmarks, cited and dated. They are context rather than a rule, and a business can raise well outside them.

Does this predict whether we will raise?

No. It shows where you stand against what is typically expected. Fundraising outcomes turn on a great deal this does not see.