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.
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.
Ensure that the plan is realistic and that it is described in financial terms and figures.
Ensure that there is a financing plan for achievement of the goal.
Ensure that there is a return defined for the investor, and that it is in line with the founders’ financial goals.
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.
Ensure that the plan is realistic and that it is described in financial terms and figures.
Ensure that there is a financing plan for achievement of the goal.
Ensure that there is a return defined for the investor, and that it is in line with the founders’ financial goals.
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.
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.
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The Investment Readiness Process is the most widely spread standardised, preparation process for raising external venture capital in the Nordics. More than 200 startups and scaleups from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland have been IRP Certified and the IRP is used and approved by almost all incubators and accelerators in the Nordics. The IRP is a copyright-protected method that has been developed by Beels Consulting AB based on theories and practice in combination with systematised and in-depth reflection regarding external funding processes and exit negotiations. The aim is to provide knowledge and methodology to founders intending to finance their company’s development through equity, loans or grants from external, financial investors.
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