The practitioner's lab

Sources & uses, hold-period EBITDA growth and debt paydown, exit equity, MOIC, IRR, and a value-creation bridge that splits return between EBITDA growth, multiple expansion, and debt paydown.

Pre/post-money math, price-per-share, and the cost of the pre-money option-pool shuffle versus a fair post-money top-up.

Multi-round cap table with founders, options, and any number of priced rounds. Computes 1× non-participating, participating, and stacked-preferences waterfalls at three exits.

A focused waterfall solver: stack any sequence of preferred rounds (1×, 2×, participating with cap), sweep across exit values, and identify the price at which the founder economics flip.

Identity check (A = L + E), eight tells (working-capital, AR/inventory days, debt structure, goodwill, deferred revenue), and a verdict band.

Score each EBITDA add-back against a quality rubric. Returns adjusted EBITDA, what the seller will defend, and what diligence should challenge.

A weighted checklist of patterns that have killed deals — commercial, financial, legal, team, tech — with a verdict band that’s a sanity check, not a decision.

A seven-block scaffold for the investment committee memo. Drafts in your browser, exports to clean Markdown.

Reduce any deal to its five questions: what changed, who’s the buyer, the moat, the unit economics, the exit. Forces an answer in under a page.

A one-page thesis: secular driver, structural advantage, target archetype, value lever, exit market, and the disqualifiers that would prove you wrong.

Thirty drills, three per other tool, graded beginner / intermediate / expert. Mark each not-started / attempted / passed; progress saved locally.

Model a VC fund’s portfolio: fund size, check size, reserve ratio, ownership target. Simulates power-law return distribution — shows how many companies need a 50× outcome to hit 3× fund.

Score 16 key term sheet provisions — valuation, option pool, pro-rata, board seats, anti-dilution, pay-to-play, and more. Returns a founder-friendliness rating with negotiation priority flags.

Run four valuation methods side-by-side: VC method, DCF, comparable transactions, Berkus scorecard. Highlights convergence and divergence to stress-test your entry price.

Live DPI / TVPI / RVPI / Net IRR calculator with a J-Curve bridge chart. Enter fund commitments, called capital, distributions, and NAV. Flags LP pressure triggers and benchmark gaps.

European waterfall model: layer-by-layer distribution of fund proceeds. Return of capital, preferred return, GP catch-up, and carried interest split. Computes LP MOIC and effective carry rate.

16-criterion weighted evaluation matrix across sourcing, market, team, traction, moat, business model, exit, and valuation. Returns a conviction rating with category bar breakdown and flags.

Built for the cohort's weekly cadence — six-step framework from sourcing through IC memo, with vertical-aware (B2B / Consumer / Deep Tech / Impact) pass-email and follow-up email drafters.

Seven-section thesis canvas with seeded templates for HealthTech, FinTech, Defense, Climate, SaaS, Deep-Tech / AI, and Consumer. Outputs an investable one-pager.

Six-module PE evaluation: bear / base / bull IRR & MOIC, value-creation bridge, sponsor fit, and a PE-specific quality score for control buyouts.

Score yourself against any PE/VC posting on six dimensions, generate a gap analysis, role-specific talking points, a cover-letter draft, and a 30-60-90 plan.

Structured intake with stage benchmarks and the four-vertical Q&A model. Hands off cleanly to IC memo, deal scorecard, and valuation comparator.