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🧪 ValuLab

What's your startup worth?

Triangulate your pre-money valuation using up to 4 established methods — Berkus, Scorecard, Revenue Multiple, and the VC Method. Takes 3 minutes. Steps 1–2 free, no login. Full report with Founder Pro.

Startup name (optional)

Which best describes your stage?

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Idea

No product yet

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Building MVP

Pre-launch

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Pre-Revenue

Live, no revenue

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Revenue Stage

Paying customers

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Growth

Scaling revenue

Sector (select one or more)

Where will you raise funding?

📊 Valuation Methods

Run all four methods

Each tab is self-contained — fill in what you can, skip what you can't. All four results appear in your final valuation report.

Revenue Multiple (Market Comps)

The most common way early-stage investors value revenue-generating startups. Investors look at sector benchmarks — how much similar companies trade for relative to their revenue — and apply that multiple to your numbers. Even for pre-revenue startups, investors often use projected first-year revenue post-funding as a proxy. Used at: Seed to Series B.

If you received funding today, what would your annual revenue be in 12 months? $USD

Low Multiple × revenue

High Multiple × revenue

Auto-filled from your sector — adjust if you have more specific comps.

Valuation Range

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Where in this range you land depends on your growth rate, team strength, and market timing.

Berkus Method

Developed by US angel investor Dave Berkus. Assigns up to $500K to each of 5 dimensions of your startup — giving a maximum pre-money of $2.5M. Best used for: pre-revenue startups at idea or MVP stage. Not suitable once you have meaningful revenue. Used at: Pre-seed / Idea stage.

Original Berkus Method by Dave Berkus (US angel investor). US benchmark: up to $500K per factor ($2.5M total). India adaptation: benchmarks adjusted to ₹50L per factor (₹2.5 Cr total), reflecting Indian early-stage angel/pre-seed valuations. Factors and weightings remain unchanged.

Sound Idea / Value Proposition

$250,000

How clearly defined and defensible is your core value proposition? Do customers recognise the pain you solve?

None ($0)DevelopingExceptional ($500K)

Working Prototype / Technology

$250,000

Do you have a working prototype or demonstrated technology that removes execution risk?

None ($0)DevelopingExceptional ($500K)

Quality Management Team

$250,000

Experience, domain expertise, and completeness of your founding and leadership team.

None ($0)DevelopingExceptional ($500K)

Strategic Relationships

$250,000

Advisors, pilot customers, distribution partnerships, or industry relationships that reduce market risk.

None ($0)DevelopingExceptional ($500K)

Product Rollout / Sales Channels

$250,000

Clarity of your go-to-market plan, early traction signals, and sales channel readiness.

None ($0)DevelopingExceptional ($500K)

Berkus Valuation

$1,250,000

Scorecard Method

Developed by Bill Payne, a prominent US angel investor. Start with the median pre-money valuation for startups at your stage and geography, then adjust it up or down by comparing your startup across 6 weighted factors. 100% = average for your market. Used at: Pre-seed to Seed, especially useful for pre-revenue startups where revenue multiples can't apply.

Scorecard Method by Bill Payne (US angel investor). Originally calibrated to US angel deal sizes. Baseline pre-money is adjusted to Indian market benchmarks when India is selected.

Regional Baseline Pre-Money $USD — auto-suggested, adjust if you have better data

Suggested based on your geography and stage.

Team Strength (30% weight)

100%

Experience, track record, domain expertise, and completeness of your founding team.

0% (none)100% (average)150% (exceptional)

Market Size / Opportunity (25% weight)

100%

TAM, market growth rate, and timing of the opportunity relative to your region.

0%100%150%

Product / Technology (15% weight)

100%

Stage of development, technical differentiation, IP, and defensibility.

0%100%150%

Competitive Environment (10% weight)

100%

How favourable is the competitive landscape? Do you have clear differentiation or a moat?

0%100%150%

Marketing / Sales / Partnerships (10% weight)

100%

GTM strategy clarity, sales pipeline, distribution partnerships, and early traction signals.

0%100%150%

Need for Additional Funding (10% weight)

100%

Higher score = more capital-efficient, fewer dilutive rounds needed to reach profitability.

0%100%150%

Scorecard Valuation

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VC Method

How a VC thinks about your valuation
VCs don't guess what a company is worth — they work backwards from a required return. A VC who invests $1M and needs 20× back expects $20M at exit. That return requirement drives every valuation they offer. Whether the number comes up in the room or not, they've already computed it.

The formula — three steps

            Required Exit Ownership  = (Raise × Return Multiple) ÷ Target Exit Value

            Ownership at Investment   = Required Exit Ownership ÷ (1 − Future Dilution %)

            Pre-Money                 = (Raise ÷ Ownership at Investment) − Raise

Return multiples by investor type

Investor type	Typical multiple
Angel / Early Seed	10×
Typical Seed VC	15×
Typical Series A	20×
Top-tier VC	25×
Highly competitive deal	30×

💡 This is the number your investor computed before they walked into the room. Whether they share it or not, this is the ceiling they are privately working from.

Round Size $USD — amount you're raising

Target Exit Value $USD

Years to Exit

Required VC Return

Total Dilution at Exit % the VC ecosystem will own by the time you exit across all rounds

50%

Typical total investor dilution from this round through exit: 40–60%. Higher = more future rounds expected.

Live Calculation

Fill in all fields above to see the VC's exact calculation.

VC Method Pre-Money

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