The trail
Every funding stage asks the company to prove new ground. Vanward walks ahead: the same verified evidence carries from the first outside check to the last, and each product is a marker on the way.
Stage 1
Two founders, a formation certificate, an idea.
What you are asked to prove
Formation documents, the EIN letter, founder agreements, an IP assignment, a first cap table.
What Vanward does
CapReadi, free until you share. Upload the founding documents, mark what does not exist yet as not applicable, and see your first readiness score. The trail starts here.
Stage 2
First outside money. Angels, a seed fund, a SAFE or priced round.
What you are asked to prove
The Universal Core 22: corporate, equity, financials or a plain statement that there are none yet, forecast, team, customers, IP, and compliance.
What Vanward does
CapReadi Founder. Each investor gets a ReadiLink scoped to them, watermarked and revocable, with a package download for their file. The readiness score tells you what to fix before they ask.
Stage 3
An institutional lead, a board, a controller or fractional CFO, monthly reporting.
What you are asked to prove
Everything from seed, now current, plus historical financials that tie, management accounts, a board package every month, and evidence that the numbers are reviewed.
What Vanward does
FinReadi Close runs the month-end close with a preparer and a reviewer on every step; every reconciliation lands on the same trail CapReadi scores. BoardReadi turns the close into the board package on one link.
Stage 4
Series B and beyond, or sponsor-owned: a fund owns the company and the founder has moved on. A finance team, an audit, a lender that wants its reporting on time, customers who run their own diligence on you.
What you are asked to prove
Audited statements, controls, a close that finishes on business day five, a clean equity ledger, customer and vendor contracts organized and current.
What Vanward does
FinReadi keeps the close, the audit preparation, and the equity records continuous. Twelve closed months in Vanward is the history a buyer or an underwriter wants to see, already verified.
Stage 5
An acquirer, a strategic, a public listing. Advisors, lawyers, a quality of earnings review.
What you are asked to prove
The full diligence package: financial, legal, commercial, and operational, with working capital, customer concentration, and key-person risk addressed before the buyer raises them.
What Vanward does
DealReadi turns the verified history into the diligence package and the data room, priced as an engagement. Nothing is rebuilt from a folder; the trail was built for this moment.
There is one record. A bank statement uploaded for a seed investor is the same row the controller reconciles in the close, the same row the board sees in its package, and the same row a buyer reads in the diligence file. Each product is a different door into the same verified trail, so nothing is rebuilt and nothing drifts.
Whatever stage you are at, the first step is the same: set up the company and place the first marker. The first 30 days of CapReadi Founder are free, no card needed.