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Seed Round Fundraise

A seed round run as a process: readiness and amount, a one-page story, a live investor pipeline with follow-ups, lead and allocation decisions, and the steps from first meetings to close.

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Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Seed Round Fundraise, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own money decisions. It is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice. Check decisions that matter with a qualified, licensed adviser in your country, and remember that investing and trading can lose money.

What it installs.

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Projects

192

Starter tasks

💰 Fundraising & Investor Relations

Seed Round Fundraise

Running a seed round end to end: story, targets, meetings, follow-ups and closing, for founders with early traction.

  1. Seed readiness check against your traction
  2. Seed amount and runway decision
  3. Milestones the seed money must reach
  4. Priced seed or SAFE round decision
  5. Startup lawyer engaged for the seed
  6. One-page seed story memo
  7. Founder and IP paperwork clean-up before the raise
  8. Raise roles split between co-founders
  9. Ten-week seed process calendar
  10. Seed investor pipeline tracker
  11. Weekly fundraising stand-up
  12. Follow-up within one working day of each meeting
  13. Weekly progress note to investors in diligence
  14. Pass reasons log and weekly pitch fixes
  15. Committed versus target round board
  16. Company metrics kept moving during the raise
  17. Living investor question bank
  18. Meeting-day blocks in the founder calendar
  19. How seed funds make an investment decision
  20. Investor types at seed and how each writes cheques
  21. Reading investor signals in seed conversations
  22. Presenting early traction with retention and cohorts
  23. Bottom-up market size for the seed story
  24. First priced round valuation basics
  25. Competitive landscape you can explain in a minute
  26. Lead investor choice among seed offers
  27. Single lead or party round decision
  28. Multi-stage fund seed cheque and signalling risk
  29. Allocation plan for an oversubscribed seed
  30. Mid-raise round size adjustment
  31. Operator angels picked for specific gaps
  32. Stop rule for a stalled seed raise
  33. Pre-launch briefing with existing backers
  34. First batch of seed meetings week
  35. Seed fund partner meeting preparation
  36. Funding announcement for the seed
  37. First thirty days after the seed lands
  38. Seed round retrospective
  39. Solo founder running a seed round
  40. Seed raise from outside the main startup hubs
  41. Pre-revenue seed raise built on pilots and usage
  42. Deep tech or hardware seed with a long build
  43. Second-time founder seed raise
  44. Raising a seed in a slow funding market
  45. Founder-parent seed raise on limited hours
  46. Tight-window competitive seed process
  47. Handling a pre-emptive seed offer
  48. Seed funnel conversion analysis
  49. Small cheques pooled into one cap table line
  50. Series A relationships started during the seed

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Seed readiness check against your traction

Seed investors back early evidence, not ideas, and the bar moves with the market: some want paying customers, others strong usage or a waitlist that converts. Before booking a single meeting, setting your numbers beside what recently funded companies in your sector showed at seed tells you whether to raise now or spend another quarter building proof.

First tasks

  • List five recently funded seed companies in your sector
  • Write your current revenue, usage and retention figures on one page
  • Ask two founders who raised a seed this year what investors probed
  • Record the decision to raise now or build for another quarter

Seed amount and runway decision

The amount you ask for is a statement of plan, and a number picked because it sounds right falls apart at the first question about use of funds. Working back from the hires, burn and months needed to reach Series A milestones, with a buffer for a slow next raise, gives an ask you can defend and a minimum you could close on.

First tasks

  • Write down every hire planned for the next two years with a start month
  • Estimate monthly burn from the hiring plan and current costs
  • Agree a target amount and a minimum you would close on
  • Draft the three-sentence use of funds with your co-founder

Milestones the seed money must reach

Every seed investor is privately asking what the company will look like when it needs a Series A, and whether that picture will be fundable. Writing down the three or four milestones this money must buy, such as a revenue run rate, a retention level or a shipped product, gives the story its spine and gives you a scoreboard once the money lands.

First tasks

  • Draft three or four milestones the company must hit before a Series A
  • Ask one Series A investor or founder whether those milestones are fundable
  • Link each milestone to the hires and spend that produce it
  • Check progress against the Series A milestones @recurring(monthly:20)

Make it yours.

Install Seed Round Fundraise, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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