Timespade's finance co-founder team prepares businesses to raise money and to scale: unit economics, financial models, pitch decks, data rooms, introductions to investors the team knows, and hiring and operations as the company grows. Timespade takes no equity and no fee tied to money raised. Its founders have raised from angels, VC funds, private equity and corporates for companies they founded.
Finance co-founder
Helps you onboard ideal investors. Prepares every doc.
Pricing, forecasts, pitch deck, contracts and hiring plans, all ready in your data room. Always be ready for your next round.
What you get
Six things off
your plate
Gets the business ready for investors and for scale, whether you raise money or fund it yourself.
Business model
Pricing and profit per customer that work before real money goes in.
Financial model
Forecasts an investor can test without finding holes.
Pitch deck
A story that explains the business in the first two minutes.
Data room
Contracts, ownership records and tech documents ready before anyone asks.
Investor introductions
Introductions to angels and funds we know, once the business is ready.
Hiring and operations
The people, processes and tools to run a bigger company.
Every customer has to pay back what they cost
It's the first thing an investor checks, and the first thing that sinks a business you fund yourself. We work out what a customer costs to win, what they bring in each month and how long they stay.
Every example on this page follows Limber, a made-up home physio service.
One Limber customer
Costs $75 to win. Brings in $25 profit a month.
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Will the money last until sales cover your costs?
Savings or an investor's cheque, the question is the same. Often the fix is simply changing the order you spend in.
Will the money last?
Same $180k in the bank, same product. Only the order of spending changes.
Two hires in the first months. The cash runs out in month 8, eight months before sales would have covered the costs.
Answers ready before investors ask
Investors give a pitch deck a few minutes. Each slide answers a question they already have, and a shared folder of documents, the data room, backs up every claim.
The pitch deck
ExampleSlide 1 of 8 answers
"Is this a real problem?"
- The problem: Patients skip physio when the clinic is a drive away. Answers: Is this a real problem?
- What Limber does: A licensed physio at your door, booked in a minute. Answers: What exactly do you do?
- Why now: Home visits became normal. Booking them never got easier. Answers: Why hasn't anyone fixed this?
- The market: Start with one city. Then every city like it. Answers: How big can this get?
- Traction: Bookings, month on month. Answers: Is anyone actually paying?
- Business model: $75 to win a customer. Paid back in month 3. Answers: Does each customer make money?
- The team: Two physios and an operator who has run clinics before. Answers: Why are you the ones to do it?
- The ask: Enough for 18 months. Here is where it goes. Answers: What will the money pay for?
Paperwork with no surprises
Deals often fall apart late, when investors go through the paperwork. We find the gaps while there's still time to fix them.
Company
Registration and shareholder agreements
Ownership
Who owns which shares, with every option
Code and designs
Signed over to the company by everyone who made them
Contracts
Customers, suppliers and staff
Financials
Model, bank statements and tax filings
ProductFrom your tech co-founder
How the tech works and keeps data safe
Fewer investors, better matched
A deck emailed to two hundred strangers mostly gets silence. We shortlist the angels and funds that back businesses like yours, at your stage, and introduce you to the ones we know.
Whether they invest is their call. We take no cut of what you raise.
Who to pitch
- AK
Angel
Health
- GF
Growth fund
Health
- LO
Angel
Consumer
- RM
Seed fund
Health
- MP
Corporate
Health
- SJ
Seed fund
Fintech
- DV
Angel
Any sector
- BQ
Growth fund
Software
- HW
Seed fund
Health
- TE
Family office
Any sector
- KI
Corporate
Insurance
- NT
Pre-seed fund
Health
- VR
Angel
Consumer
- FN
Growth fund
Fintech
- YU
Pre-seed fund
Health
- OZ
Seed fund
Software
- CB
Angel
Health
- EC
Late-stage fund
Health
Meetings close together
We book first meetings within a few weeks of each other, so every investor knows others are looking. You rehearse each pitch with us first.
First meetings
ExampleWeek 1
Week 2
Week 3
The money's in.
Now build the company.
New hires burn through a raise faster than anything else, so each one waits for a milestone. We also run the finance and admin behind the business and write the update your investors get every month.
Who joins, and when
ExampleLaunch
You, with Timespade
100 customers
+ Customer support
Repeat sales
+ First salesperson
Next round
+ Head of finance
- Revenue
- $17k up 16% on last month
- Spending
- $26k a month
- In the bank
- $70k
- Sales cover costs
- Month 15 on track
Good news: two orthopaedic clinics now send us every knee patient.
Bad news: our first salesperson left after six weeks. We're hiring again.
How you can help: introductions to surgeons in new cities.
Proof
We've sat on your side of the table
4
Investor types we raised from
Angels, VC funds, private equity and corporates, for companies we founded
$500K+
In partner perks
Credits that cut your first-year costs before you raise
10
People on finance
Strategy, fundraising and operations
The rest of the team
Your other two co-founders
FAQs
Questions about the finance co-founder
No. We take no equity and no fee tied to the money you raise. You keep 100% of your company.
No one honestly can. We make the business and the pitch as strong as they can be and introduce you to investors who back companies like yours. Whether they invest is their call.
Many of the business owners we work with fund the company themselves. Then this work becomes a plan for spending your own money well: what to build first, what to hold back and when the company starts paying for itself.
A few months before you need the money. An early, short catch-up lets an investor watch you hit the targets you told them about, and that counts for more than any slide. We start those conversations once your numbers hold up.
No. They still sign off on tax, legal and company filings. We build the model, the plan and the paperwork investors ask for, and work alongside them.
Angels, early-stage funds and corporate investors we've raised from or worked with over the years. Who we introduce you to depends on your sector and stage.
No. We take no equity and no fee tied to the money you raise. You keep 100% of your company.
No one honestly can. We make the business and the pitch as strong as they can be and introduce you to investors who back companies like yours. Whether they invest is their call.
Many of the business owners we work with fund the company themselves. Then this work becomes a plan for spending your own money well: what to build first, what to hold back and when the company starts paying for itself.
A few months before you need the money. An early, short catch-up lets an investor watch you hit the targets you told them about, and that counts for more than any slide. We start those conversations once your numbers hold up.
No. They still sign off on tax, legal and company filings. We build the model, the plan and the paperwork investors ask for, and work alongside them.
Angels, early-stage funds and corporate investors we've raised from or worked with over the years. Who we introduce you to depends on your sector and stage.
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