fundraising-strategy

fundraising-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from LeadMagic/gtm-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (3,755 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing startup ownership, including cap tables, valuations, option pools, employee share grants, dilution, and secondary sales. A cap table is the record of who owns what in a company; a 409A valuation is a US tax valuation used for some employee options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up a cap table, plan an option pool, issue employee or advisor grants, compare ISO and NSO options, model dilution, and prepare for fundraising.
Why use it?
It helps founders avoid ownership records and employee grants becoming confusing or inaccurate as the company grows. It also explains how new investment, option pools, and share sales can change ownership.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the gtm-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up a cap table, plan an option pool, issue employee or advisor grants, compare ISO and NSO options, model dilution, and prepare for fundraising.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/leadmagic/gtm-skills/fundraising-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add LeadMagic/gtm-skills --skill fundraising-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeadMagic/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gtm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,755 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00064 $0.03755
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01878
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00751
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00376

Measured 7d ago against content hash b944f285f5f0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fundraising-strategy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-output.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/founder-led/fundraising-strategy/SKILL.md · 334 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 334 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fundraising Strategy

Overview

Fundraising is selling a piece of your company. The mistake: treating it like a financing event instead of a sales process. You are selling equity in exchange for capital, and like any sale, it has a funnel, close rate, and negotiation. This skill covers the full fundraising motion — deciding whether to raise, building pipeline, running the process, evaluating terms, and closing.

Authoritative Foundations

  • Jason Lemkin (SaaStr). 3x YoY at seed; burn multiple gates at A/B; VP Sales hiring ~$2M ARR.
  • Christoph Janz (Point Nine). ARR napkin — stage-appropriate growth expectations.
  • David Skok. Unit economics before scale — LTV:CAC, payback.
  • Rob Walling (TinySeed). Bootstrap-first path; raise from strength at $1–2M ARR.
  • Brad Feld — Venture Deals. Term sheet mechanics (not valuation advice).

Load references/vc-milestone-gates.md for round-by-round metric gates.

Investor diligence: Present committed ARR bridge (not bookings TCV) aligned with references/saas-mrr-accounting-nuances.md. Clean books handoff → references/saas-tax-founder-awareness.md. Annual budget scenario → references/gtm-budget-playbook.md + financial-modeling.

When to Use

Trigger phrases: "fundraising strategy", "raise seed round", "Series A prep", "pitch deck for investors", "SAFE vs priced round", "VC vs bootstrapped", "how much should I raise", "term sheet evaluation", "investor pipeline"

Should You Raise?

Raise VC if:

  • Market is winner-take-most (network effects, data moats)
  • You need capital to capture market before competitors
  • Your growth rate can support VC expectations (3x+ YoY at seed, 2-3x at Series A)
  • You're building a $1B+ outcome company
  • You want/need the network, brand, and pressure of institutional capital

Stay bootstrapped if:

  • Market is fragmented (many winners possible)
  • You can reach profitability on customer revenue
  • You value control and independence above growth speed
  • Your lifestyle business can hit $5-20M ARR without outside capital
  • You'd rather optimize for profit than valuation

Read the full file on GitHub · 334 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 334 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A b944f285f5f0

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fundraising-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeadMagic/gtm-skills (49 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 3,755 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.