Interactive Cohort & Course
Founders’ Masterclass
The core finance curriculum for founders who want to run their numbers, instead of being run by them. Get decades of VC and M&A expertise inside a 4-week framework.
Secure Your SpotIf you are raising capital, you have likely run into this:
Building a company is hard enough. Pitching it with confidence without deep institutional finance knowledge makes it nearly impossible.
An investor asks about your unit economics and you don’t have a clean, bulletproof answer.
You struggle to defend your dynamic financial model assumptions under heavy VC scrutiny.
You send your deck out to hundreds of targets without knowing who is actively deploying capital right now.
Proven Frameworks
What You’ll Master
By the end of this 4-week course, your narrative will be battle-tested and investor-proof.
Ideal Customer Profile
Identify your core user with absolute precision. Learn to model growth loops that scale cleanly from your first 100 users to 10,000+.
Financial Modeling
Build a beautiful, reliable, bottom-up model from scratch using realistic, research-backed growth assumptions you can confidently defend.
Competitive Moat
Map out your ecosystem. When an investor asks, “What about competitor X?” your strategic analysis will render their concerns obsolete.
The Investor Pitch Deck
Formulate a 10-slide narrative that makes the upside undeniable, aligning your numbers perfectly with your visionary story.
Targeted Investor List
Receive a highly custom, human-curated list of 20 active investors match-fit for your specific vertical, round size, and geography.
High-Converting Outreach
Stop cold-mailing blindly. Use proven copy blueprints, follow-up sequences, and psychological hooks that unlock direct partner intro meetings.
Syllabus
Program Structure
49 high-impact lessons engineered to structure your strategy, math, narrative, and distribution. Check out the free preview modules.
Join the Masterclass- Program Overview
- Buyers/Users: Core Ideation Tutorial & Worksheet
- Competitors & Complementary Players
- Pricing Structures & Scale Models
- Growth Engine Mechanics & Math
- Case Study: Startup Lessons from Non-Traditional Markets
- Revenue vs. Expense Modeling
- The Salient Six Core Indicators
- Startup Metrics: CAC, LTV, and Runways
- Valuation Math & Cap Table Dilution Models
- AI Prompts for Financial Engineering
- Alternative & Traditional Capital Sources
- Formulating the Right Funding Strategy
- What VCs/Angels Check Behind the Scenes
- The 10 Must-Have Presentation Slides
- Email Copy templates & Outreach Scripts
- Identifying active funds vs. inactive deployers
- The Meeting Framework: Narrative, Tone, Hooks
- Close and Follow-up Sequences
- Bonus: Accessing fresh global venture databases
Your Instructor
Lili Balfour
Startup CFO & Strategic Advisor
I started my career in Silicon Valley tech M&A, progressed into healthcare investment banking on Wall Street, and subsequently dedicated my passion to helping venture builders master critical company financials.
Having advised on over $500M in strategic capital raises and exits, I designed the Founders’ Masterclass to synthesize institutional knowledge. This represents decades of experience condensed into actionable frameworks.
Our program alumnae have built companies successfully acquired by companies like Netflix, Nielsen, and FlexTrade.
20+
Years in M&A & IB
18k+
Founders Reached
$500M+
In Raises & Exits
90m
Core Video Content
Immediate Access
Lifetime Access Pass
Founders’ Masterclass
- 49 High-Impact Masterclass Lessons
- Pre-built Downloadable Spreadsheets & Planners
- Custom List of 20 Curated VC Targets
- Unlimited Email Support Questions