Top 10 Free Founders Templates

Embark on your entrepreneurial journey with confidence using my Startup Data Room Template. This all-encompassing toolkit is designed to get you in touch with what you need in your data room for a successful fundraising. You can use it as centralized hub for crucial information across three key domains: Investment, Legal, and Commercial. Yet, it's primarily made to inform you about what you need and aggregate all the information in a central spot.

🌐 Investment Round:
- Pitch Deck: Craft an irresistible presentation that captivates investors.
- Vision and Strat: Define your startup's vision and strategic objectives.
- Metrics Dashboard: Visualize your performance metrics with clarity.
- Financial Model: Build a robust financial model for insightful projections.
- Financial Plan: Develop a comprehensive plan for financial success.
- Market Size Analysis: Dive into detailed market size assessments.
- Cap Table: Manage and organize your capitalization table effortlessly.
- Competitive Analysis: Conduct a thorough analysis of your competitive landscape.
- Valuation Analysis: Dive into detailed valuation assessments.
- Term Sheet: Clearly outline the terms of your investment deal.
- Investors FAQ: Anticipate and address potential investor queries.

⚖️ Legal Cornerstones:
- Company Registration: Navigate the process of company registration seamlessly.
- Memorandum of Association: Formalize your company's structure.
- Articles of Association: Outline the articles governing your startup.
- SEIS/EIS Advance Assurance: Secure tax benefits with advance assurance.
- Employment Contracts: Establish clear and comprehensive employment terms.
- NED LoA: Formalize agreements with Non-Executive Directors.
- Advisors and Consultant Contracts: Structure agreements with key contributors.
- Sweat Equity: Define terms for contributors receiving equity.
- IP: Safeguard your intellectual property.
- Insurances: Ensure comprehensive insurance coverage.

📈 Commercial:
- Business Roadmap: Develop a clear roadmap for your business journey.
- Strategic Roadmap: Align your strategies with a well-defined roadmap.
- GTM Strategy: Nail your go-to-market strategy for success.
- Product Demo: Showcase your product with a compelling demo.
- Marketing Plan: Execute your marketing plans with precision.
- Sales Pipeline: Manage and optimize your sales pipeline effectively.
- Commercial Agreements: Document and streamline your commercial agreements.
- Commercial Contracts: Outline the details of your commercial contracts.
- Feasibility Reports: Prepare detailed reports outlining project feasibility.
- Employees and Hiring Plan: Plan for growth with a detailed hiring strategy.

Stand out from the crowd and create your pitch deck using Notion. This template structure is based on an analysis of the most successful startup pitch decks, and it helps you build a compelling pitch deck that can get you funded.

This template can be a valuable resource for individuals or teams seeking to start a company. By providing a comprehensive set of questions to ask a potential co-founder, it helps to ensure that all relevant topics are covered in the due diligence process. This can lead to a more informed decision-making process and a stronger foundation for the new company. Additionally, the template can help to identify potential areas of conflict or misalignment early on, which can save time, resources, and potentially avoid costly mistakes down the road.

Define your company purpose, problem, solution, timing, market potential, competition, team, financials, and vision with this pitch deck template.

Accidentally emailing an investor you've already pitched, or showing up to a meeting unprepared is like the real-life version of that dream where you show up to a class in your underwear. So use this template as one place where you can track every contact and your communication history.

Track different kinds of data in the same database — whether it's average check size, emails, or warm contacts. View contacts by status to see which investors you've won or lost, and how much progress you're making. Then click into each investor's subpage to add meeting notes, links to their websites, or pitch prep.

A data room is a valuable tool for your startup during its fundraising process, giving potential investors a deep insight into your business. This template will get you up and running quickly and give you a central location to store your documents, business details, and important data.

Launch your startup's vision with this Notion template, designed to compellingly present your business ideas, market analysis, and strategic plans to potential investors and partners.

Raising funds is an important activity for nonprofits. While they can be a great source of revenue for an organization, they can also be time-consuming. With this template, you and your team can keep track of every individual and foundation/corporation fundraising to ensure that everything is on track.

This template is designed to make the whole process simple. The perfect way to have a clear indication of the status of every fundraising, who is leading it, when the expected close date is, and a lot more.

Template for the Y Combinator application form, so you can plan your application, collaborate with others and send to previous founders and mentors for a quick review before submitting.

Funding OS is a tool that helps founders to acquire and manage fundraising. It works like a CRM but also covers requirements to fundraising. I created it based on my five years of experience working with business owners and supporting them in their funding rounds.