Make Your Startup Investor Ready

This is the track to pick if your only goal is to be ready to raise. It is built around six one-to-one mentorship sessions with Avelo Roy over a sixty-day period, each an hour long and extendable by fifteen minutes if he thinks it is needed. Sessions run by phone or video. The incubation page gives the length as around two months and says it can vary with your speed and need.

What you get

• Six one-hour sessions with the managing director over sixty days.
• Tasks set after each session, to be finished before the next.
• WhatsApp support between sessions, with a stated response time of a few minutes to forty-eight hours.
• Introductions to three potential investors, depending on your stage and how ready you are to pitch.
• Stated outcomes in sixty days: a complete business plan, a complete pitch deck, a one-page executive summary, a use-of-funds document, and the ability to pitch and answer the questions investors commonly ask.
• Legal and accounting support at discounted rates, and professional pitch-deck design as a paid add-on.

Who can apply

• Founders preparing to raise. The investment form marks post-revenue applicants as preferred over pre-revenue ones.
• No sector or location restriction is stated.

How selection works: you apply through the funding page's form, which asks for your problem statement in thirty-five words or fewer, your target market segment, your solution and what makes it different, your traction, your founding team's credentials and how much you want to raise. Kolkata Ventures says it will come back to you within seven days. It also states plainly that whether investment follows depends on the founder and the investor, and that it gives no guarantee of it.

How to apply: use the application form on the startup funding page, or call the number on the site to schedule. Follow up at admin@kolkataventures.com if you do not hear back.