Startup valuation range builders
Estimate, compare, and pressure-test early-stage valuation assumptions using recognised startup valuation methods. These tools help you prepare for investor conversations; they do not produce a guaranteed company value.
Valuation methods
Equity calculators
Business model canvas
- 1Startup basics
- 2Run the methods
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Pick the question you are trying to answer.
Start with the plain-language question, not the finance method. Each tool gives a rough planning range and highlights the assumptions an investor is likely to challenge.
Your startup basics
These choices adjust the built-in planning estimates used by the tools. They are saved in this browser and are not live market data. Changing the currency changes the label only — built-in benchmark amounts are not converted.
What might we be worth?
A broad first-pass range. Use it when you do not know which valuation method to start with. The range appears once you pick an industry benchmark and answer at least 8 questions.
How strong is the idea?
Score the evidence you have before revenue: idea, product, team, partners, and sales readiness.
How do we compare with similar startups?
Start with a typical valuation, then move it up or down based on team, traction, market, and exit potential.
What risks change the valuation?
Start with a typical valuation, then mark whether each risk makes the company more or less investable.
What would an investor need to own?
Work backwards from a possible future exit to estimate the ownership an investor may ask for today.
How do the methods stack up?
Every completed valuation method side by side, plus one combined negotiating range. Cite the individual methods to an investor, not this blend.
"Not run yet" methods are excluded from the combined range and the report. This range is a starting point for a conversation, not a number to hand an investor on its own.
Quick ownership check
Step 1 of 2: use this for a rough ownership impact of a single raise. It is approximate and not legal advice. When you need multiple rounds, option-pool refreshes, or founder-by-founder detail, carry these numbers into the full Investor Equity tool below.
Who owns what after funding?
Step 2 of 2: full multi-round modelling with founder-by-founder detail. See how founder, investor, and option pool ownership changes as new money comes in over up to 3 rounds.
How should founders split equity?
Compare founder contributions with a simple weighted score. Use it to start a conversation, not end one.
Browser-saved BMC
Add sticky notes to each block. Notes are saved locally in this browser.
Runway & burn
How long your cash lasts at this canvas’s burn rate. A planning estimate, not financial advice.
How much should I raise?
A simple rule of thumb: raise enough to reach your next meaningful milestone, plus a buffer — commonly around 6 months, or roughly 18 months of total runway.
Raise too little and you risk running dry before the milestone (and a down round); raise too much and you over-dilute early. A planning rule of thumb, not financial advice.
Ask Lucence about your model
Turn your canvas into a pitch outline, a validation plan, an action list, or the objections an investor will raise. Uses only the notes and numbers on this canvas.
Add revenue or cost notes to your canvas to enable these.
This is educational guidance only. It is not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice.