Our co-founder Logan Burchett set one rule for himself before Forecastr existed: talk to a hundred people before touching a pitch deck or writing a line of code.
The real skill is hearing the answers without lying to yourself. It's easy to read interest into a nice comment or a
Forecastr helps founders forecast revenue, predict runway, understand their numbers & get funded
- Your existing investors are the cheapest capital you will ever raise. No roadshow, no six-week diligence grind. They already believe in you, or at least they did on the day they wired the money. Keeping that belief alive between rounds is a skill, and almost nobody teaches it.
- Two founders can hold the exact same runway number and be nowhere near the same position. One just closed a round on good terms. The other is negotiating with four months left, and every investor at the table can tell. The gap comes down to timing. One side used the number to
- Cash doesn't run out. It sneaks out. A contract that renews itself in the middle of the night. A customer who pays on day 47 instead of day 15. Neither one will ever feel like an emergency, and both of them are quietly shortening your runway while you're busy building. On
- Our CEO and Co-founder Steven Plappert has a simple rule for data rooms: make them fat and juicy. Corp docs, cap table, contracts, a teaser of your deck and model, all in one place. That's what tells investors you're organized and ready. Building one from scratch is a whole

