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Startup RX Tear Sheets

what is a startup rx tear sheet?

Startup Rx Tear Sheets are principal-level investment analyses that enable your firm to get smart on a potential investment at speed. Each Tear Sheet is a single-page document outlining the pros and cons of an investment from an unbiased, expert perspective. Each Tear Sheet also provides only the most salient details that back up our top-level analysis, so you can remain focused on decision-making. Last, we provide sample additional questions you might like to ask founders before writing a term sheet.

Download an example tear sheet here.

WHY

Startup Rx

Tear Sheets?

Startup Rx Tear Sheets:

  • Reduce the cost of your initial investment analysis (by between 43% and 71%).

  • Lead to faster investment decisions.

  • Reduce bias from the media or your social network.

  • Leverage higher quality analysis from Starup Rx’s internal network effects. We run more analyses than any one VC professional.

use cases include:

  • Reducing investment analysis costs.

  • Speeding investment decisions.

  • Freeing junior investment professionals to source more deals and spend more time networking.

  • Socializing a deal within the investment team.

  • Socializing a deal within an investor network.

  • Leverage for future pitch materials if investment outperforms analysis.

  • Strengthen LP relationships by providing insight into reasons for/against a deal.

HOW TO USE

STARTUP RX

TEAR SHEETS?

what’S in

startup rx

tear sheets?

where applicable,

tear sheets evaluate:

  • Key merits and risks.

  • Founder(s) and team.

  • Business model.

  • GTM strategy.

  • Company financials.

  • Market size.

  • Competition/comps.

  • Investment trends.

  • Exit trends.

  • Intellectual property.

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