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Go-to-market focus
How specific is your target customer, and how clearly does your positioning support the way you sell?
Free post-funding growth assessment
You've raised funding. Where should you focus next?
A new round brings decisions about hiring, customer acquisition and how far your capital needs to take you. Before you commit more resources, take a closer look at the growth plan behind those decisions.
Assess five areas of post-funding readiness and identify the priorities worth addressing with your leadership team.
18 questions · About 5 minutes · Results available on completion
What the assessment covers
Look at the decisions behind your growth plan.
A funding announcement can get attention. What follows depends on how you prioritize customers, people and resources. This assessment helps you examine those choices together.
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Team & execution
Does your team have the ownership and capacity to deliver on the priorities behind this round?
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Metrics & milestones
Are you tracking progress against useful milestones, with metrics your team can act on?
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Runway & resource allocation
Does your spending plan reflect your priorities and the time needed to reach your next milestone?
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Visibility & credibility
Can the customers, partners and investors you need understand your business and find reasons to trust it?
Your results
A clearer starting point for your next team conversation.
See where you stand
Get an overall score and a breakdown across all five areas, based on your responses.
Identify what needs attention
Review priority gaps and critical risk flags that may need attention regardless of your total score.
Decide what to discuss
Use the recommended next steps and your strongest areas to guide a more focused leadership conversation.
Get your post-funding growth score
Answer 18 questions about your current growth plan. Your report highlights the areas that need attention and gives you priorities to discuss with your team.
We ask for your contact details at the end, once you have completed the questions, so that we can send you a copy of your report.
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YOUR GROWTH STRATEGY SCORE
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Readiness by area
Critical risks
These items sit outside the numerical score because each one can undermine growth on its own, regardless of your overall score.
Your top priorities
What you are already doing well
Recommended next step
Turn your results into executive priorities
The Post-Funding Strategy Sprint offers a focused advisory engagement to help your leadership team evaluate its next stage of growth. Explore the engagement and decide whether it fits your priorities.
Based on your results, these are the areas most worth covering:
This is an ARTÉMIA diagnostic based on commonly used indicators of post-funding growth readiness. It is a structured judgment based on your answers rather than a statistically validated prediction of outcomes, and it does not forecast revenue, runway or fundraising outcomes.
Post-funding reading list
Resources for what comes after funding.
Tools and guidance to help you organize your next steps, avoid common pitfalls and plan for growth.
Free Notion template
Startup Command Center
Keep strategic priorities, hiring plans, investor commitments and key decisions together in one connected workspace for your leadership team.
Founder guide
Why You Need a Good Post-Funding Strategy
Consider how a post-funding strategy connects new capital with the priorities and decisions that follow.
Founder guide
10 Common Mistakes Founders Make After Closing a Seed Round
Review common post-Seed pitfalls as you plan hiring, spending and your next stage of growth.
Founder guide
Seed vs. Series A: What Changes?
Explore ARTÉMIA's analysis of Seed and Series A funding rounds and what the differences can mean for your planning.
Post-Funding Strategy Sprint
Work through your next growth decisions with experienced counsel.
For recently funded companies evaluating their next stage of growth, the Sprint provides focused executive advisory support with Barbara Wichmann, ARTÉMIA's founder and CEO.
Bring your current priorities and materials into a structured engagement, with an Executive Priorities Brief to guide your next decisions.
ARTÉMIA Communications was founded in San Francisco in 1995.
Focused executive advisory
$5,995
- Structured intake
- Review of up to three existing materials
- Two 60-minute strategy sessions with Barbara Wichmann
- Executive Priorities Brief with key findings, risks, three to five prioritized recommendations and high-level next steps
A focused advisory engagement. See the offer page for full scope and details.
Before you begin
About the assessment
Who is this assessment for?
Founders and leadership teams at recently funded startups, including companies planning their next steps after a Seed or Series A round. Answer based on how your business operates today.
What will I receive?
Your report includes an overall score, a breakdown of five growth readiness areas, priority recommendations, strengths and any critical risk flags identified from your responses.
Do I need to provide contact details?
Yes. After the questions, we ask for your name, work email and company before showing your results. You can choose separately whether to receive occasional ARTÉMIA resources and updates.
Does my score predict whether my startup will succeed?
No. This is a self-reported diagnostic to support planning and discussion. It does not validate market demand or predict revenue, runway or fundraising outcomes.
Do I need to purchase the Sprint?
No. The assessment, guides and Startup Command Center are free resources. The Post-Funding Strategy Sprint is a separate paid advisory engagement.
Start with your current plan
Find the priorities worth addressing next.
Take five minutes to review where your growth strategy stands before committing more time and capital.