{"id":3,"date":"2025-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/what-a-vc-actually-looks-at-in-your-mis-and-what-most-founde\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"what-a-vc-actually-looks-at-in-your-mis-and-what-most-founde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/what-a-vc-actually-looks-at-in-your-mis-and-what-most-founde\/","title":{"rendered":"What a VC actually looks at in your MIS \u2014 and what most founders miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The MIS most founders send \u2014 and why investors stop reading at page 1<\/h2>\n<p>After a fundraise closes, most founders send their investor a Tally printout or a 40-page Excel file with no summary. The investor reads the first page, puts it aside, and makes a mental note about the founding team&#8217;s financial discipline.<\/p>\n<h2>What investors actually want to see<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Revenue vs plan<\/strong> \u2014 actual vs what you said you would do. Variance matters more than the number.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Burn rate and runway<\/strong> \u2014 how much cash you spent and how many months remain at current burn.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gross margin<\/strong> \u2014 are unit economics improving or deteriorating?<\/li>\n<li><strong>One key metric<\/strong> \u2014 MRR, GMV, ARR \u2014 just one, the most important one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What changed and why<\/strong> \u2014 two sentences in plain language on the most important variance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What you need<\/strong> \u2014 if you need an introduction or a decision, say it at the bottom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>The MIS is not a report. It is a conversation starter. Its job is to make the investor feel informed and confident \u2014 not to demonstrate that you track 47 metrics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"bb-ctabox\" style=\"background:#1F2D54;border-radius:12px;padding:34px;text-align:center;margin:44px 0 0;\">\n<div style=\"font-family:'DM Mono',monospace;font-size:10px;color:#B8770A;letter-spacing:.12em;text-transform:uppercase;margin-bottom:12px;\">Start today<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family:'Cormorant Garamond',Georgia,serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:300;font-style:italic;color:#fff;margin-bottom:8px;line-height:1.3;\">Did this help? Get the full picture.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:rgba(255,255,255,.55);margin-bottom:22px;line-height:1.7;max-width:420px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\">Book a Health Check and find out exactly where your business stands \u2014 in 45 minutes. Written report in 24 hours. Refund guarantee.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/919711187655?text=Hi%20Siba%2C%20I%20read%20your%20article%20and%20want%20to%20book%20a%20Health%20Check.\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#B8770A;color:#fff;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;padding:12px 26px;border-radius:40px;text-decoration:none;\">Book Health Check \u2014 &#8377;10,000<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;color:rgba(255,255,255,.3);margin-top:10px;\">UPI on confirmation &nbsp;\u00b7&nbsp; Response within 4 hours<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIS most founders send \u2014 and why investors stop reading at page 1After a fundraise closes, most founders send their investor a Tally printout or a 40-page Excel file with no summary. The investor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investor-readiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bebaak.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}