Funding and fundraising
Funding and fundraising: resources to prepare your business plan, structure your metrics and fund your growth, with Ember guides and tools.
Guides
Statutory Auditor or Accountant for a French SME Fundraising?
Learn how French SMEs decide between a statutory auditor and an accountant for fundraising. This guide offers a structured approach to make the right choice.
Stalled sales pipeline: read the finance signal first
A stalled sales pipeline is also a cash signal: check stage quality and dates, then turn each delay into a cash scenario and choose a reversible action.
What Evidence to Check Before Choosing Fund Your Growth
What evidence a founder should gather before choosing Fund Your Growth: problem, demand, market and figures, with no promise of funding.
How to Turn Founder Conversations into B2B Pipeline?
Turn founder conversations into a measurable B2B pipeline without a marketing team. A structured method for SME leaders to capture and qualify relationships.
Essential financial documents for a Series A data room
Prepare a Series A financial data room: historical accounts, forecast, cap table and B2B traction evidence, with clear ownership and staged access.
Fund Your Growth Use Cases for Founder Operations
Automate financial operations and focus on scaling. This guide helps early-stage founders structure decisions with Fund Your Growth.
Problems That Block Your Project Funding and Automation
Identify the problems blocking your project funding and automation strategy. Use this diagnostic to avoid costly mistakes and build with confidence. 156 chars
How Finance ta croissance Works for Early-Stage Founders
How Finance ta croissance works for a founder who automates operations and funds a project without picking the wrong strategy.
Cap Table Mistakes in Seed Due Diligence: A Founder's Guide
Avoid common cap table mistakes in seed due diligence to build investor confidence. Our guide helps early-stage founders organize ownership and prevent errors.
A Defensible Investor Target List for a B2B Founder in 2026
A practical guide to building a defensible investor target list when raising in 2026: qualification criteria, limits and next steps.
Pre-seed without a network: a seven-gate fundraising process
Turn this B2B signal into a reviewable diagnosis. Keep facts, sources, assumptions, limits and correction conditions visible before taking action as a team.
Investor Silence After a Pitch: Diagnose the Decision Gap
Analyse this B2B problem without confusing signal and cause. Preserve facts, sources, limits and next actions in one reviewable decision record for the team.
How Do Small B2B Sales Teams Build a Trustworthy Revenue Forecast?
Learn to structure a revenue forecast that angel investors trust, not just a spreadsheet. This guide turns assumptions into a clear, fundable plan for pre-seed.
Sales Commissions and Accruals: Ending Finance and Sales Disputes
How to set up sales compensation and commission accruals so finance and sales stop arguing at quarter-end: written rules, tools and limits.
Funding pathway selection for early-stage founders: how to choose
Choose between bootstrapping, angels, venture capital and revenue-based financing at an early stage by comparing control, timing and actual funding needs.
Who funds startups? A practical guide
A deep, practical guide to who funds startups, for early-stage founders.
Which B2B Business Models Are Fundable in 2026, and Which to Skip?
Learn which B2B business models attract funding in 2026 and which to avoid. Get a practical framework to align your project with a fundable strategy.
Capital-Efficient Seed Round: How Small Can It Be?
A practical guide to sizing a capital-efficient seed round: how small the round can credibly be, what it signals to investors, and how to structure it.
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Cofounder Departure: SeedLegals or Ember for Your Cap Table?
Clean dead equity from your cap table to protect founder control before raising capital. Learn how SeedLegals and Ember align legal records with funding strategy.
SeedLegals vs Ember: Choosing the Right Funding Platform
Compare SeedLegals and Ember to prevent cap table dilution and pick the best path for early-stage funding. Balance strategic modeling with legal paperwork.
How to Protect Your Business from Operational Illiquidity
Protect your business from cash flow collapse by identifying working capital friction before reserves run out. Learn how to stress test runway and stay default alive.
Pennylane vs Agicap: Which Tool Protects Your Runway?
Choose Pennylane for unified accounting compliance or Agicap for complex multi-bank cash flow forecasting. Compare features and pricing to secure your runway.
Is Your Business Default Alive or Default Dead?
Find out if your business is default alive by testing your runway against real cost pressures. Learn how to audit your burn rate and protect your cash.
Regulation D vs Regulation A+: How to Choose Your Raise
Compare Regulation D and Regulation A+ to choose the right fundraising path for your speed, budget, and investor base. Review SEC rules, costs, and reporting.