How Investory can Help your Start-Up

Modern-day start-ups need better management systems if they want to succeed.

The term start-up can be misleading. Start-ups are not just five people in a basement anymore, but they are still building new companies, using technology to disrupt industries, and hoping for greater market share. Despite this, approximately 90% of start-ups fail. And 10% fail within the first year. 

Most start-ups and small business ventures fail in the first year because of inadequate cash flow.  It is very important to properly manage your investments throughout the start-up phase so that you can be successful and reach your initial goals. One of the secret weapons for success is to use a software for startups- a specific software designed to assist with managing many aspects of successfully growing a startup.

Start-Up Investments: Keys to Success

Start-up investments are important in helping you to develop your new business. They are the initial funds you need in order to get started, whether you are starting a new service or product or opening a new physical space for your business. Once they are in place, these investments will allow you to get your business on its feet and begin earning money. Knowing how they fit into your financial plan will help you set appropriate goals for the future of your business.

A comprehensive solution that sorts your data in one location sounds like a dream to most start-up investors and start-up founders alike. You can easily centralize all of your important portfolio documents, communicate with anyone within the network, and build a document library at your fingertips. Even better, with Investory’s cloud-based software, you can access your information from any device – anytime.

What Investory Can do for your Start-Up

Rethinking start-up Reporting

• Allows you to automate the collection and presentation of your company data across any database or accounting platform, so you can focus more on growing your business.
• Gives you the tools to better understand and convey your company's value through metrics and insightful reporting. 

• The tool allows you to collaborate with your team to create and share real time reports with investors. 
  
  

Management Dashboard

Founders have enough on their plates. The Management Dashboard is an online portfolio management solution for start-up founders, fundraisers, and C-Levels to manage the company’s information, metrics, forecasts, cap table D&B score, and social profiles. Our portfolio management solutions consolidate your company's most important metrics, investors, team members and resources into one customizable screen that allows you to monitor key business information from any connected device, at any time of day or night, on an ongoing basis.

The dashboard is key to effective management. This allows you to track your business better and make better asset management decisions in less time. 

Investor Updates

Wouldn't it be nice to have a tool that makes it really easy for you to keep your investors informed about everything that is happening with your company? Investor Updates will help you create professional and impressive updates for investors and other people you may need to impress (like advisors, PR etc). As an entrepreneur, you sometimes feel like you can't get enough funding - but with Investor Updates, we want to make it easier for you.

The update is the single most important communication your company makes to its investors. You can tell your story in a professional and powerful manner with Investor Updates. A wide range of templates, including custom templates, allows you to create dazzling updates in no time. Tracker views allow you to visualize important metrics for your business within one page - everything on one screen.

Captables

The right captable matters not only for investors but for entrepreneurs as well. Investory.io makes sure you can easily set up your cap table, share the information with investors and let them know what the current valuation is.

The captable created by investory.io accurately captures multiple valuations, details meaningful holdings and provides access to any information whenever and wherever. Captable provides an instant view of all historical valuations as well as the ability to share the details with anyone including employees, investors, advisors and board members.

Data Room

Our data rooms provide the security, privacy, and convenience that online investors have been looking for—all at no charge when you use Investory. 

With Investory, you can create a unique data room link. The investors receive the link and work directly in this data room for due diligence or to view documents. You have full control over who can view what and access is limited only to specific users. You can retrieve documents from anywhere in the world and not have to worry about long-distance charges from the hosting service. 

While the data room is a new financial tool that has been taken up by venture capitalists and other equity investors, many of them have gone for costly solutions to get things going. We have developed a more practical solution with a free version for everyone on investory.io, which means you can get on board with all the essential features of portfolio management tools.

What about Data Security?

Because we know how essential data security is for you, Investory is deeply committed to your data security. Here are some ways we put your concerns to rest:

When it comes to your data security, Investory is never out of its depth. The Investory data security system has been developed by a team of developers and security engineers. We have designed Investory's security to provide all of the features that are essential to the smooth functioning of your business. With strong encryption, you can be confident that our platform and your data is protected.

It's not just a tagline - the Investory team have collectively created, maintained and audited highly secure web applications, and are confident that the technology is fundamentally sound.

Even though we have skilled engineers and database specialists, we never want you to be concerned about your data privacy. If anything goes wrong on our end then we as a management team take responsibility and will make sure that your data remains safe and secure. 

Access & Authentication

• HTTPS/SSL access only 

• Data is stored using the latest cutting-edge security techniques. 

• The investory team can only access data which they require for business purposes. Login credentials are always processed in a secure manner.

• Data security audits are performed on regularly 

• incident response planning is in place for incidents that compromise data security

• Investory is designed to be simple enough for anybody to use, but also capable enough to handle large scale projects. Not only is it built on reputable cloud providers (Amazon Web Services), but it is also fully redundant and hardened against unauthorized access. 

• Data is stored in an encrypted format, with regular backups performed.

The Bottom Line

If you want your start-up to succeed, you’re going to need your bottom line in a place that makes existing investors satisfied, and attracts new investors if necessary. But beside the bottom line, you will need to provide investors with the necessary data and metrics to offer visibility into your start-up’s performance. With so many metrics to track, it is impossible to manage this manually. Investory can help bridge the gap between you and your investors, helping your start-up to catapult towards success.