Application & Structured Onboarding
A detailed onboarding questionnaire covering your company, product, traction and your personal objectives.
Current availability: Limited
Enter the fundraising market prepared.
Fundraise Launch gives you the strategy, structure, investor narrative and targeted starting point required to approach your raise with confidence. Before you spend months learning through rejection.
Limited engagements are accepted each month.
- 1:1 ADVISOR CALLS
- Two - 1 hour calls
- Deliverable
- 90 day Launch plan
- TAILORED LIST OF
- Investors
- If declined
- Fully refunded
01The problem
Most founders never get to launch.
Fundraising is learned in public, at cost. Founders enter the market, absorb months of vague feedback, and only then discover what should have been fixed before the first meeting. The damage is rarely a single rejection — it is lost time, lost momentum and a narrative that hardens around the wrong story.
Live investor calls should not be the first place you discover the weaknesses in your pitch.
- 01Begin fundraising before the company is ready.
- 02Targeting the wrong investors.
- 03Raising the wrong type or amount of capital.
- 04Working from an unclear or over-complicated investment narrative.
- 05Losing momentum through unfocused outreach.
- 06Spending months collecting feedback that could have been identified before launch.
- 07Losing motivation after constant rejection and unclear feedback.
02The outcome
Know what investors want to see before you approach them.
01
Move faster
Enter the market prepared and ready to close, instead of learning through trial and error.
02
Protect your time
Spend more time building your business and less time decoding fundraising.
03
Understand your fundability
Know whether you are ready to raise — and precisely what needs to change if you are not.
04
Target the right capital
Focus on investors and capital structures that fit your stage, business model and objectives.
Getting funded is not the only objective. Finding the right form of capital, from the right investors, at the right time is equally important.
03What you get
Nine components. One tailored plan.
A highly structured assessment with strategic guidance, direct advisor input and a 90 day Fundraise Launch Plan built specifically for your company.
Initial Strategy Call
A one-hour session to understand the business, clarify the fundraising objective, identify material gaps and explore the most appropriate capital strategy.
Fundability Assessment
A practical read on how investors are likely to evaluate the company: strengths, weaknesses, fundraising risks, missing information, positioning gaps, proof points, valuation range, ideal financing type, and whether you appear ready to enter the market.
Narrative & Positioning Recommendations
Strategic direction on the investment narrative, the core fundraising message, your strongest investment attributes, how the opportunity should be framed, likely investor objections, and where the story needs more evidence.
Fundraising Materials Review
Review of your existing deck, financial model, executive summary, data room, and cap table, with clear and actionable recommendations.
Capital Strategy
How much to raise, what milestones the raise should fund, which type of capital suits the business, which investor profile fits, and how this round should support the next stage.
Tailored Investor List
A curated list of good-fit investors selected on stage, sector, geography, check size, business model, traction and the capital strategy identified in your plan.
90 day Fundraise Launch Plan
A tailored plan: fundability assessment, positioning, capital strategy, material gaps, required improvements, investor targeting criteria, initial investor list, next steps, and a clear recommendation. Launch now, change specific things first, or reconsider the financing approach.
Final Review Call
A second one-hour call to review the completed plan, work through the investor list, answer questions and confirm the recommended next steps.
PUBLIC provides recommendations and strategic direction. Fundraise Launch does not include rewriting or redesigning your pitch deck, and the fundability assessment is not a promise of financing.
04How it works
Five steps from application to launch plan.
- 01
Apply and pay deposit
Complete a concise application and submit payment of the $1,000 deposit.
- 02
Application review
PUBLIC reviews every application before onboarding. If it is declined, your deposit is refunded in full.
- 03
Complete onboarding
Accepted founders receive a calendar link, the detailed onboarding questionnaire and instructions for submitting materials.
- 04
Strategy and assessment
A one-hour strategy call, followed by the fundability assessment, materials review and capital strategy work.
- 05
Receive and review the plan
Your 90 day Fundraise Launch Plan and investor list, reviewed together on a second one-hour call.
APPLY FOR FUNDRAISE LAUNCH
Your payment is fully refundable if your application is not accepted.
05Fit
Built for committed founders. Not for everyone.
Who it is for
- Pre-seed founders preparing for an initial institutional or sophisticated angel raise.
- Seed-stage companies preparing for their first institutional capital.
- Founders uncertain whether they should be raising capital at all.
- Founders who need clarity on the right form of capital.
- Founders who want a targeted investor starting point.
- Series A companies that need a sharper, more focused approach.
- VC-backed founders evaluating alternatives.
Who it is not for
- Founders looking for guaranteed financing.
- Companies expecting PUBLIC to perform all investor outreach for $1,000.
- Founders unwilling to pitch their own business.
- Companies looking only for pitch-deck design.
- Founders who are unwilling to learn and improve.
- Founders unwilling to make changes based on investor-readiness feedback.
- Businesses seeking legal, accounting or securities advice.
06Scope
What the Launch plan does not include.
Fundraise Launch prepares you to enter the market properly with a focused starting point, so you don’t lose months to avoidable rejection. It is not a done-for-you fundraise.
- Investor outreach performed by PUBLIC.
- Fundraising process management.
- Pitch-deck design or rewriting.
- Financial model construction.
- Negotiating with investors.
- Investor follow-up.
- Closing support.
- Legal or securities advice.
- Guaranteed introductions.
- Guaranteed financing.
08Pricing
Fundraise Launch
$1,000USD · one-time
A complete fundraising-readiness engagement, delivered in 10 business days after onboarding materials are received.
Fully refundable if your application is not accepted.
Current availability: Limited
Includes
- Application review.
- Detailed onboarding.
- Two one-hour 1:1 calls.
- Fundability assessment.
- Fundraising materials review.
- Narrative recommendations.
- Capital strategy.
- Curated investor list.
- Fundraise Launch Plan.
Accepted founders may also be eligible for ongoing done-with-you fundraising support.
09After launch
Need support after launch?
Founders accepted into Fundraise Launch may be invited to engage PUBLIC for ongoing, done-with-you fundraising support across the raise.
Initial Term
60 days
Pricing
Contact Us
- Ongoing capital strategy.
- Additional investor research and contact lists.
- Outreach strategy.
- Pitch and investor meeting preparation.
- Strategic introductions when appropriate.
- Negotiation and closing support.
- Investor follow-up management.
- Feedback analysis and process guidance.
10FAQ
Questions, answered directly.
Do not spend the first three months of your raise learning how you should have prepared.
Understand your fundability, sharpen your approach, identify the right capital, and enter the market with a focused investor starting point.
Limited monthly capacity. Fully refundable if your application is declined.