Supporting Startups with Financial Advice Is Different
Plans change fast
Startups tweak prices, channels, even whole products every few weeks, so their numbers must update just as quickly.
Founders arrive with no model—or ten messy ones
You waste hours rebuilding the basics before real advice can start.
You’re coach and analyst at once
It’s not enough to show the figures; you must teach founders what the figures mean so they can act.
Anastasia Nikolaeva
“I created startup-specific financial models to help founders with forecasting, commercial strategy, and fundraising. Teams in 36 countries already use these templates. Now I’m opening them up to partners—companies and organizations that guide startups on strategy and finance. My job is to provide the tools and tech support so you can spend more time on insights and client strategy.”
You can download PDF previews of my financial-model templates to see exactly what’s inside.
I’m launching a pilot Partner Program for advisors, accelerators, and other startup-support organizations. You’ll receive plug-and-play financial templates built for early-stage companies — already wired with the right formulas — and, if you need it, dedicated customization and ongoing support. Stop spending hours building spreadsheets and focus on what really matters: insights, strategy, scenarios, benchmarking, and stronger client relationships.
What’s inside the Financial Model Templates
Finance Linked to Product Roadmap
Map product milestones directly to revenue start-dates and cost ramps, so founders see how timing affects cash.
Acquisition & Sales Funnel
Model leads, conversions, and retention by channel to spot weak links and plan commercial strategy.
Capital Needs & Valuation by Rounds
Size each funding round automatically, track dilution, and show valuation ranges based on common methods.
Guided Projections
In-cell comments walk you through every assumption, making it easy to adjust numbers without breaking formulas. This is your work space, results are automated.
Unit Economics Breakdown
Live CAC, LTV, churn, and payback calculations help teams test pricing or channel changes in seconds.
Financial Statements & Investor Metrics
Auto-generated 5-year P&L, cash-flow, balance sheet, and KPI dashboard—ready for board decks or investor updates.
Key Modeling Features & Benefits
The Roadmap tab lets you tie startup financial projections directly to key milestones, revenue, and expenses. You can set event dates manually or dynamically link them to your fundraising timeline. In other tabs, simply select predefined roadmap events from a dropdown menu to quickly align hiring plans, revenue streams, and expenses with your strategic goals.
Set up multi-tier pricing and different revenue streams. The screenshot shows a SaaS example with three subscription tiers, but the same logic adapts to any startup model, letting you test price points and rollout dates while your revenue forecast updates automatically.
Drill down into every acquisition channel—set monthly budget, expected CPC, learning-curve cost reductions, and step-by-step conversion rates from click to trial or lead. The screenshot shows a paid-traffic setup, but similar structure let you model organic, outbound, or partnership funnels so customer growth, CAC, and revenue forecasts stay realistic and granular.
Link headcount directly to usage KPIs. Specify how many active users each Customer Success or Support role can handle, and the model auto-adds new hires as subscriber numbers grow—keeping payroll, retention efforts, and customer experience in sync with real demand.
Schedule any operating cost with full control: set start events from the roadmap, choose monthly, quarterly, or annual payments, apply flat or percentage increases at custom intervals, and cap spend when needed. The model automatically rolls these rules into cash-flow and runway projections.
Track CAC, LTV, and LTV:CAC ratios for every acquisition channel month by month. Quickly see which sources scale profitably and which need optimization or budget cuts—all rolled up into a blended view for board-ready metrics.
Validate your growth targets in one glance. Set TAM, SAM, and the share you aim to capture, and the model automatically checks that your 5-year user and revenue forecasts stay realistic against market size—perfect for investor sanity-checks.
Calculate exactly how much cash each funding round should cover. Enter runway months, buffers, and contingencies, and the model sums operating burn, cap-ex, and working capital—then displays the capital required plus a visual expense breakdown, so you hit the right raise target without over- or under-funding.
Compare multiple valuation methods—VC, Scorecard, and exit-multiple—side by side. Enter target exit year, revenue or EBITDA multiples, and investment amount; the model instantly returns pre- and post-money figures plus investor return expectations, so founders and advisors can negotiate rounds with clear, data-backed numbers.
Model shareholder payouts with guardrails. Pick a start year, set the payout % of net income, and define minimum cash coverage and earnings thresholds. The sheet then calculates annual dividend pools and shows the exact distribution to each shareholder—only if liquidity conditions are met—so founders and investors can plan returns without risking runway.
Track ownership changes automatically as you model each funding round. The model pulls the pre-money valuation and raise amount from your prior inputs, then updates the cap table with post-money valuation, new share count, and the exact percentage each founder and investor holds—so dilution never catches anyone by surprise.
Who Can Be a Partner
Business Advisors & Consultants
Fractional CFOs, growth consultants, and boutique advisory firms can deliver investor-grade forecasts in hours and keep every client on one clear financial framework.
Startup Support Organizations
Accelerators, incubators, and venture studios use the bundle as a standard toolkit for each cohort—saving staff time, teaching founders finance fundamentals, and simplifying portfolio benchmarking.
Business Angels & Serial Entrepreneurs
Active angels or founders-turned-mentors equip portfolio companies with plug-and-play models, speeding due diligence, follow-on funding decisions, and ongoing performance tracking.
How You Can Use the Templates
Financial-model templates do far more than generate forecasts
Financial Modelling & Forecasting
Duplicate the template, plug in assumptions, and hand founders a 5-year forecast—complete with runway, unit economics, and funding-round sizing—in a single working session.
Strategic Consulting & Workshops
Run live strategy days: toggle scenarios on screen to show how pricing, channels, or hiring plans change cash flow, then lock in the roadmap your client will follow.
Commercial & Go-to-Market Planning
Break down CAC, LTV, and churn by acquisition source; test channel mixes and price points so founders leave with a concrete marketing and sales plan.
Education Programs
Use the step-by-step comments and built-in examples as teaching material for cohort classes or internal training—turning every template into an interactive lesson.
Cooperation Options in the Partner Program
I’m launching a pilot Partner Program and offer several ways to collaborate — while staying open to your own ideas.
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Financial Model Templates Bundle
Purchase the same startup financial-model templates I use with my clients. A single one-time payment grants lifetime access to the files “as is,” ready for immediate use in your advisory work.
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Limited early-bird offer: join the first cohort and help shape new features and decide which industries we tackle next.
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Need my financial logic under your own brand? I’ll build a private bundle of templates tailored to your client types or internal workflow.
Tailored logic
Sheets, metrics, and comments match the business models you serve.
Your look & feel
Logo, colours, and tone of voice applied throughout.
Team-ready guides
Step-by-step instructions so your staff can use and adapt the templates with confidence.
Exclusive rights
Unlimited use with your clients; the files remain unique to your firm in the white-label option.
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Tell me how to reach you and I’ll contact you to pick a convenient time. In this quick call we’ll explore your goals, answer questions, and outline the best next steps for a custom template set.
On-call help to adapt the template to a client’s specific case—troubleshooting calls, annotated videos, or quick chat replies—so your team never gets stuck.
Client-Level Customization
Need extra sheets or industry-specific metrics for a project? I’ll extend the core logic—add cohorts, pricing tiers, or new revenue streams—so the file fits a particular client perfectly while your team focuses on consulting and strategy.
Staff Education
Live or recorded workshops on startup financial modelling, plus step-by-step guides and FAQs, giving your team the confidence to use and explain the templates.
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