Pressure-test a fundraise by anticipating the hard investor questions and arming the founder with crisp answers. Use when asked to prep for investor Q&A, anticipate due-diligence questions, handle pushback on a raise, or build a fundraising FAQ. Produces the toughest questions an investor will ask — grouped by theme — each with the strongest honest answer and the trap to avoid.
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Use fundraising-faq to prepare an investor Q&A for [company, stage, and raise], grounded in [traction, team, and soft spots], with honest answers, traps to avoid, and assumed facts clearly labeled.
Required inputs
[company, stage, and raise]
[traction, team, and soft spots]
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name: fundraising-faqdescription: "Pressure-test a fundraise by anticipating the hard investor questions and arming the founder with crisp answers. Use when asked to prep for investor Q&A, anticipate due-diligence questions, handle pushback on a raise, or build a fundraising FAQ. Produces the toughest questions an investor will ask — grouped by theme — each with the strongest honest answer and the trap to avoid."
Fundraising FAQ Skill
Founders lose rounds in Q&A, not on the deck. This skill surfaces the questions a sharp investor will ask, then drafts the answer that holds up — honest, specific, and confident.
Working from a brief
Given a short company description, generate the full Q&A anyway — infer the likely concerns from the stage, market, and model. Mark any assumed metric (assumed — replace). Never leave placeholders; show a strong model answer the founder can adapt.
Required Inputs
Ask for (if not already provided):
What the company does, stage, and how much they're raising
Known soft spots (weak metric, crowded market, regulatory risk, single big customer)
Traction and team facts the answers can stand on
Output Format
Group questions by theme. For each question give: Q, the strongest honest answer (2–4 sentences, specific), and ⚠️ the trap (the weak/defensive answer to avoid).
1. Market & why-now
How big is this really? Why hasn't it been done? Why now?
2. Traction & metrics
Is the growth real or a one-off? What's churn / retention / payback? What happens if your top customer leaves?
3. Moat & competition
Why can't [incumbent] just do this? What stops a fast follower? What's your unfair advantage?
4. Business model & unit economics
Do the unit economics work at scale? What's CAC, LTV, gross margin? When are you default-alive?
5. Team & execution
Why this team? What's the biggest risk to execution? What have you learned that others haven't?
6. The raise
Why this amount? What does it buy? What milestones get you to the next round? What's your valuation rationale?
End with:
The 3 questions you're most afraid of — name them, and give the answer that turns each into a strength.
Red flags to never say — defensive tells ("we have no competitors", "we just need marketing", "the market is so big we only need 1%").
Quality Checks
Answers are specific and honest, not spin
Each weak spot the founder named has a prepared, non-defensive answer
The "afraid of" section confronts the real risks, not easy ones
No placeholder metrics left un-flagged
Anti-Patterns
Dodging the hard question instead of answering it
"No competitors" and "we only need 1% of the market"
Over-long answers that sound rehearsed and evasive
Pretending a real risk doesn't exist instead of framing how you'll manage it