Startup Advisory & Investor Readiness
Astelion has supported more than 1,000 startups and founders through advisory, consulting, accelerators, courses and growth programs across different stages of company development.
New: Astelion Investor Readiness Review
Launch Price: $199
Strengthening business fundamentals
Clarifying KPIs, business model assumptions, financial logic, and growth drivers to support stronger strategic and investor discussions.
Increasing fundraising readiness
Improving investor materials, fundraising logic, due diligence preparation, and Q&A readiness before approaching investors.
Balancing growth and financial discipline
Helping founders prioritize growth initiatives while maintaining realistic budget assumptions, operational discipline, and financial sustainability.
Executive readiness overview
Understand your overall readiness, key strengths and the most important investor-readiness risks.
Section-level assessment scorecard
See where your company appears stronger and where additional work, clarification or evidence may be needed.
Priority actions & evidence guidance
Focus on the priority issues that require management attention first, together with the evidence, information, or materials that may strengthen your investor case.
Fundraising & investor guidance
Receive practical direction on how your investment case may be structured and presented, including fundraising narrative and relevant investor categories where applicable.
Detailed findings and next steps
Understand the reasoning behind the assessment — including what works, what needs attention, what evidence may need strengthening, and the recommended actions.
Full findings register
Review the underlying field-level observations, including material findings and lower-priority items retained for transparency, detailed correction, and preparation.
What the review covers
A structured view of your investment case as a whole
The review examines your startup as a connected investment case - not simply as a collection of individual answers. It considers how the key areas fit together, where they reinforce or contradict one another, and what may affect investor confidence — from your team and company fundamentals to market, business model, timing, traction, fundraising and investor fit. Questions are adapted to your company profile and stage.
Structured across key areas
The 12 core sections remain consistent across all reviews, while the questions within them are adapted to the company profile.
How it works
Start your review and follow the guided process
No payment is required to start. You can review your answers before payment and final submission.
Confidentiality
Your information is treated as confidential.
Astelion does not sell your company information or share it with third parties for unrelated purposes. We do not use or disclose your company information for unrelated external purposes without your authorization, subject to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Next Steps After the Review
Your Investor Readiness Review identifies the issues that require attention and helps prioritize what should be addressed first. If you want additional support in addressing the findings, Astelion offers optional follow-up services ranging from expert validation to focused improvement work and more comprehensive fundraising or due-diligence preparation.
Expert Validation Call - 90-minute review session
Review the key findings with an Astelion expert, clarify priorities, discuss questions arising from the report, and determine the most important next steps.
Investor Readiness Improvement Sprint — 10 hours
Focused professional support to address selected priority issues identified in the Review — for example, business and financial logic, evidence gaps, investor materials, fundraising assumptions or other areas requiring improvement.
Investor & Due Diligence Preparation
More comprehensive, scope-based support for companies entering serious fundraising or due-diligence processes. This may include investor materials, financial and business-model review, preparation for investor questions and meetings, documentation readiness, and support in addressing material issues in preparation for due diligence.