Financial modeling for startups
You have one job as an entrepreneur: don't run out of money. Your runway is important to determine how quickly you can scale and deploy your efforts and how much revenue you can gather.

Templates for Startup Financial Models
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How does a financial model work?
A financial model consists of the company's revenues and expenses. Models are based on historical data, so businesses can track KPIs such as gross margin and net margin, as well as forecast future performance based upon critical metrics like customer cost of acquisition.
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For founders, the Financial Model is an essential tool for managing the business and making informed business decisions about its future.02
However, it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel. Most executives are aware of a standard set of variables in a financial model template.03
In addition to creating a blank version, we built a sample financial model. It is based on all the sheets available on our fully-built spreadsheets but it contains no projections or business models.
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You can customize your finances
We offer a custom startup financial model that provides you with a list of your company's revenue and expenses. In correlation with historical data, a model allows a business to monitor KPIs such as gross margin and net margin, as well as forecast future performance based on critical metrics like customer cost of acquisition.The custom financial model starts at $1200
Read our terms of service for more details about how this process works.
Main parts of a financial model
WK-CAPEX
WK-CAPEX
The company maintains assets such as cars, computers, and servers here, with their depreciation, automatically calculated.
SG&A
SG&A
The most common costs for a company include payroll, marketing, sales, rent, and services, all included in Selling, General and Administrative Expenses.
COGS
COGS
Costs of Good Sold may be used differently across industries. It usually accounts for the cost of materials and inventory. For software companies, servers are usually accounted for here.
REVENUE
REVENUE
We believe it's important to estimate revenue accurately and project it. Additionally, it is important to link these predictions to COGS and SG&A requirements.
Capitalisation Table
Capitalisation Table
Investing by founders, investors, and other investors in each round helps determine the percentage of ownership, equity dilution, and value of equity in a company.
Revenue and Expense Dashboards
Revenue and Expense Dashboards
Dashboards with summarized data and their graph representations
Input Sheets
Input Sheets
The following are the assumptions required to estimate cash flow
Working capital
Working capital
Next-generation working capital requirements, including debtors, creditors, provisions, advances
Expense Inputs sheet
Expense Inputs sheet
Estimation of overheads (opex, Staffing expenses)
Profit and Loss Workings
Profit and Loss Workings
In assessing the costs and pricing of each product head (provided by the client) and projecting the company's topline.
Scenario & Sensitivity analysis for key variables
Scenario & Sensitivity analysis for key variables
Normal, Best and Worst-case scenario for key variables
Consolidated financial statement
Consolidated financial statement
The financial projections for the year. Revenues and balance sheets)
Loan Ammortisation Table
Loan Ammortisation Table
At the end of the loan term, all payments are listed on the schedule.
Fund utilisation and Breakup
Fund utilisation and Breakup
A breakdown of the fund's use between multiple expense heads
The capabilities of our financial model
- Use real industry data to predict future revenues
- This text file is natively implemented in Microsoft Excel and compatible with Google Sheets
- Cap Tables are used to estimate seed and Series A funding
- Up to 4 business models may be supported
- Easily calculate your team scalability based on your performance
- Finance, capital expenditures, and asset depreciation

Financial model templates for startups
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Make your model
- We can custom-build your financial model if your company's business model does not match one of our templates.
- Imagine our spreadsheet as a custom-built calculator, where you and your team can input your numbers to project different company outcomes.
We provide more details about how this process works in our terms of service.