Find the flaws in your raise before the investors do.
Ninety minutes with a senior CFO. A written memo. A tailored pitch deck blueprint. An AI-assisted execution kit. So you go to market knowing exactly what's solid and what isn't.
Purchase the Diagnostic — USD 990Every stalled fundraise had a moment, weeks earlier, when it could have been saved.
It's the unit economics that didn't hold up under a real investor's second read. The use-of-funds that didn't connect to a measurable outcome. The model that fell apart on the third question. The deck that answered the founder's questions instead of the investor's.
These problems are easy to spot from the outside and almost impossible to spot from the inside. By the time the rejection email arrives, you've already burned weeks of momentum, a chunk of your founder credibility with that investor, and a slot in their pipeline that's hard to win back.
The Diagnostic exists to compress that moment of clarity into ninety minutes — before the rejection, not after.
Six deliverables. One outcome: a raise that survives institutional scrutiny.
An honest read on your unit economics
What your current data is actually telling you about revenue per customer, churn, contribution margin and the real cost of acquiring growth. Signal, not narrative — calibrated so you can stand behind every number in a room of institutional investors.
A defensible use-of-funds story
How to size the raise, and how to make the link between every dollar of capital and a measurable business outcome legible to a sceptical investor. Replaces "we'll spend it on growth" with a chain of cause and effect.
The three viability gaps, named clearly
The specific structural issues an investor will surface — and which you should close before the conversation starts. Named in priority order, with a recommendation on which to fix and which to disclose.
Your financial model, architected
A blueprint of the model you should build: the drivers, the scenarios, the assumptions to expose, the outputs that anchor an investor conversation. Not the finished model — the structure that lets you build a finished model that holds up.
A pitch deck blueprint, tailored to your business
A 12–14 slide structure built specifically for your business model and stage. For each slide: the question it must answer, the data point that goes on it, and the pitfall founders in your category typically fall into.
An AI-assisted execution kit
A structured set of prompts for Claude or GPT — one per workstream — to build the model and the deck yourself, plus a short guide to what AI can reliably help with and what you must reality-check by hand. The senior CFO judgment is in the prompts.
Three ways to get fundraise-ready. Only one is calibrated to early-stage reality.
- You build a model from a template
- You write a deck from a blog post
- You don't know what investors will challenge until they do
- You learn by losing the meetings
- Senior CFO judgment on what's solid and what isn't
- Tailored model architecture and deck blueprint
- AI-assisted execution kit so you can build it yourself
- You learn before the meetings, not during
- We build the model with you, investor-grade
- We build the deck with you, fully designed
- We support the outreach and prepare you per meeting
- For founders ready to commit to a full process
The Diagnostic is for a specific type of founder.
- You have early revenue and you intend to raise institutional capital in the next 12 months
- You want a sharper read on whether the economics support the raise you have in mind
- You're smart enough to know what you don't know — and you want senior CFO judgment rather than a sales pitch
- You're willing to hear hard answers and act on them
- You are pre-revenue and pre-product
- You are looking for an advisor to find investors on your behalf — we don't provide that service
- You want someone to execute the fundraise for you rather than tell you whether the business is ready
From purchase to memo, in two weeks.
Purchase
Pay USD 990 upfront. You'll receive the booking link and an intake form by email within one business day.
Intake
A short pre-session form. Send your latest financial data, your current deck if you have one, and one paragraph on the round you're planning.
Session
A 90-minute working session with Emilio. Focused, structured, and unsparing on the issues that matter.
Memo and kit
The written memo, pitch deck blueprint and AI-assisted execution kit delivered within five business days of the session.
A senior CFO with USD 60M+ of capital raised behind him.
Emilio Parente is the Founder of CFO Ventures, a Dubai-based fractional CFO and financial advisory practice. He holds an MBA from London Business School and an MSc from Bocconi University, and is recognised as a Toptal Top 3% finance professional. Over the last decade he has supported more than fifty companies across fifteen countries on financial planning, fundraising preparation, and M&A — and a cumulative USD 60M+ of capital raised by the founders he has advised.
USD 990 is less than the cost of getting it wrong.
- One billable hour with a tier-1 corporate lawyer
- One-tenth the cost of a junior analyst for a month
- 0.2% of a typical seed round
- Less than the cost of one failed investor meeting — preparation, opportunity, reputation
Don't take a half-built raise to a real investor.
The Diagnostic is ninety minutes that change the trajectory of the next twelve.
Purchase the Diagnostic — USD 990