Self-score your profile
Is your profile tight enough?
Twelve questions score each profile axis — team, product, market, traction, management — to see which axis is weakest.
Team
Product
Market
Traction
Governance
Điểm sẵn sàng gọi vốn
Trả lời đủ 12 câu để xem điểm và phân tích 5 trục (0/12).
Scores are based on your self-assessment, not appraisal results and not investment commitment from HCM VIF.
What does funding readiness mean and what does this score say?
Capital readiness is a matter of how well a business's profile can withstand investor review, not how attractive the idea is. This self-assessment includes twelve questions, divided into five groups of criteria that investors often review: founding team, products and competitive advantages, market, growth index, and legal and governance including data room documents. Scores help you see the weakest group of criteria to tackle first, instead of spreading your efforts evenly.
Dùng công cụ này khi nào
- Before sending documents to investors, check to see which criteria groups have gaps that can easily be questioned.
- When planning for the next three to six months, you need to choose between perfecting the product, accumulating growth metrics, or legal standardization.
- When the founders and the Board of Directors need to agree on a common view on the level of readiness, instead of evaluating according to their own feelings.
How to calculate points
Each answer corresponds to a score, from lowest to highest Score of a group = (Total group score − Total lowest score) ÷ (Total highest score − Total lowest score) × 100 Total score = Apply the same conversion method to all twelve questions
Each question has three options corresponding to three different levels of completion. The score of each group and the total score are converted to a scale of 0 - 100 by anchoring 0 at the lowest choice combination and 100 at the highest combination. This allows groups with different numbers of questions to be compared, and each group's chart shows where to focus on improving.
Ví dụ: The legal and administration group has three questions, each scored from 1 to 5 points, meaning the lowest is 3 and the highest is 15 points. If you choose the lowest level on all three questions, the converted group score is 0 out of 100. If you choose the middle level on all three questions, the total raw score is 9 and the converted group score is 50 out of 100.
Thuật ngữ trong công cụ
- Product-market fitProduct–market fit
- The status of a product that correctly addresses a real need, demonstrated by customers proactively returning to use it and being willing to pay. This is a condition that is often considered before discussing scale expansion.
- Growth indexTraction
- Quantitative evidence that the business is moving forward: number of customers, revenue, customer retention rate, pilot contracts or signed memoranda of understanding. Numerical evidence is always more convincing than qualitative descriptions.
- Ownership structureCap table
- List of share ratios of each shareholder, with options and conversion commitments. A confusing or inappropriately dispersed ownership structure at an early stage can cause the capital call to stall.
- Document warehouseData room
- Access-controlled storage space brings together legal filings, financial statements, contracts and product documents for investor review. Preparing an inventory of documents helps significantly shorten appraisal time.
- AppraisalDue diligence
- The process by which investors review all information provided by the business, including legal, financial, technological and human resources. Discrepancies between presentation documents and inspection results are a common cause of trade stops.
- Advantages are difficult to copyMoat
- Factors that make it difficult for competitors to catch up in the short term: intellectual property rights, accumulated data, high switching costs or established partner networks.
Đọc kết quả thế nào
From 80 points or more
None of the criteria groups have obvious gaps. The remaining thing is to complete the set of documents and choose the appropriate time to approach investors.
55 – 79 points
The profile has a foundation but some groups are still weak. You should deal with the group with the lowest scores before expanding your contact with investors.
Under 55 points
The profile still has many gaps in basic groups. It is customary to spend more time consolidating products, data and legal requirements, because calling capital too early with incomplete documents often results in losing the opportunity to approach the next time.
Results from the tool are for reference only, based on your own assessment and associated assumptions. This is not investment advice or a commitment by the Fund as to its funding capacity.
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