Are you ready for investors?
Explain your investment opportunity in a structure reflecting investors’ needs. Be concise and cover all relevant aspects of your business with the template.
5 Topic Areas
Get the overview on investor readiness
The investor readiness check covers the five most relevant areas for investor readiness: from founder team alignment to financial plan and company valuation.
Individual Tipps
Professional recommendations
After processing each of your answers, you will receive specific recommendations on how to improve. You will get personal feedback via email from us.
Your Assessment
Orientation with the overall score
Learn how much is still missing and how to get there. The traffic-light system shows where to improve your investor readiness areas.
Universität Duisburg
“A big thank you for your workshop “Debunking the investor process” in our Accelerator programme at Gateway. It was an absolute highlight for me this year. Especially the concept of “Rich or King” will accompany me from now on.”
Traxit investor readiness
Big thanks to all SWG Team and all supporting and external mentors for the highly valuable insights. In particular Paola Gariglio, Juan Carlos Martinez Barrio, Petra Wolkenstein and Patrick Collins. We loved being there and being pushed to the limits!
SaaS Accelerator investor readiness training
It was great having you here Petra, thank you for all the support for the founders of our programs!
VoiceRecognition Startup investor readiness
Hi Petra! Thank you for such an energetic and in all senses absolutely excellent and highly valuable SWG Q&A session on anything investor process.
MusicTech Startup investor readiness
Thank you so very much for the SWG Q & A session on anything investor process. That was very insightful!
HealthTech Startup investor readiness
The program of Startup Wise Guys was an invaluable resource of information for our startup, empowering us to understand all facets of the startup journey. Big thanks to our mentors: Patrick Collins, Petra Wolkenstein, Mario Krivokapic, … and the SWG alumni & team.
HRTech Startup investor negotiations
Petra did one of the best workshops when we were participating in the Startup Wise Guys program. She is an expert in negotiations. Her help and suggestions in terms of our company strategy were extremely valuable. Thank you!
RealEstateTech Startup
We really appreciate the great help and tips we received during Investor Dynamics training. The valuable feedback and hands-on approach gave us a clear picture, what activities are most important for us and how to execute them!
Analytics Startup investor readiness
I just re-watched your videos – they are fantastic! Thank you so much for such a structured and “templates-based” attitude! Also lots of great insights into how an investor thinks during the Q&A sessions.
Productivity Startup investor readiness
Thank you very much for your time and valuable insights on investor-readiness!
Accelerator Program investor readiness
Thank you, Petra, for great insights on the investor readiness topic!
SaaS Startup investor readiness
Really good! The virtual lab was very informative with a lot of useful things to make a better approach to investors.
GreenTech Startup investor matching
Petra helped us in structuring the key message and all relating documents for finding venture capital for a newly founded start-up in the field of green chemicals. She also provided us with contacts and venture opportunities for our mission. We totally appreciated her very experienced, well-skilled but still hands-on way of working with us. Petra is perfectly capable of sensing what her customers really need. We really learnt a lot! Thank you, Petra.
FinTech Startup investor matching
Petra Wolkenstein has supported and consulted us in several phases in a very professional way. Working together has been excellent when looking for new investors. She matched us with qualitatively valuable and very suitable investors. Her cross-border investor network is truly extensive. Many thanks for your excellent and proactive support!
E-Commerce Startup exit
Selling a company is a complex process. When I was looking for a buyer to exit my company, the experience of the consulting team helped a lot. In the end, the professional teaser documentation and the invaluable negotiation support were decisive for the sale.
