IRP for Founders

The Investment Readiness Process

The IRP prepares your company for raising external venture capital. It is an effective and structured process carried out with the company’s founders under the guidance of a Certified IRP Instructor. The process includes five two-hour meetings and 8 tasks and takes place over a 5-10 week period and the end result is the IRP Report which you can share online to attract early stage investors.

The goal

Ensure that the members of the founder team are in complete agreement on the goal for the company, and that there is a well-considered vision and plan for how to achieve the goal.

Reality check

Ensure that the plan is realistic and that it is described in financial terms and figures.

Financing plan

Ensure that there is a financing plan for achievement of the goal.

Return of investment

Ensure that there is a return defined for the investor, and that it is in line with the founders’ financial goals.

What is the aim of IRP?
The goal

Ensure that the members of the founder team are in complete agreement on the goal for the company, and that there is a well-considered vision and plan for how to achieve the goal.

Reality check

Ensure that the plan is realistic and that it is described in financial terms and figures.

Financing plan

Ensure that there is a financing plan for achievement of the goal.

Return of investment

Ensure that there is a return defined for the investor, and that it is in line with the founders’ financial goals.

What is the aim of IRP?

How it works

In between the meetings, the founders work on the eight tasks included in the process. The IRP instructor leads the meetings, documents the discussions and provides feedback regarding the founders’ input. Video lectures are included, and instructions for the tasks are provided in the IRP tool, a cloud-based tool in which the meetings are documented by the instructor and the tasks are performed by the founders.

What do Founders gain?

The result

The result of The Investment Readiness Process is that the founders are well prepared for a capital acquisition process and have a well-considered and agreed investment offer with value-driving factors, strategic activity plan, milestones, financial forecast, exit strategy, valuation model and investment design, including total capital requirement, pre-money valuations, dilution effect for the founders and potential return for the investors. After an IRP, the founder team has a well-considered and agreed investment offer and everything is summoned in the company’s IRP Report. 

The IRP Report includes:

Get in touch

Interested in doing The Investment Readiness Process?  Contact one of the IRP Partners directly to get started!

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