Every month
Maintained throughout the year
Financial records and supporting documentation are kept organized throughout the year, reducing last-minute preparation when fundraising begins.
Due Diligence Readiness
Due diligence, ready before investors ask.
We keep your financials and supporting records current, track required filings and intercompany documentation, and help prepare the finance side of your data room before investors start asking questions.
What you get
Every cross-charge
Papered when it happens
The agreement behind an intercompany transaction exists before anyone asks to see it.
Your files
Released on request
At any time, in a usable form. It's one of the five commitments in the engagement letter.
When investors ask for a document, it already exists.
US startups with international operations face additional diligence requirements.
Asked of any startup
- Cap table, option grants, and board consents
- Revenue, contracts, and customer concentration
- Financial statements and tax returns
Additional requirements for cross-border structures
- Which entity owns the IP, and on what paper
- Intercompany agreements and transfer pricing documentation
- Form 5472 reporting for applicable related-party transactions, where required
- Form 5471 reporting for foreign subsidiaries, where applicable
Deals stall on missing documents more often than on bad numbers.
We put the paperwork in place as transactions happen.
One calendar with every deadline and its owner.
One named person who replies within a business day.
CFO-led oversight from day 1, helping identify and address financial risks before investors do.
What we keep ready.
What stays current in every engagement, and what we take on when a round actually opens.
Kept current, every month
- Financial statements produced from closed and reconciled books
- Federal and state filing history, tracked and kept current
- Intercompany agreements and transfer pricing documentation
- Corporate records, good standing, and registered agent
- Employment classifications and state registrations
When the round opens
- The finance section of the data room, assembled from what's already kept
- Counsel's questions answered from the detail underneath
- A dated remediation plan for anything that isn't clean yet
- The CFO leading the finance workstream through to close
- The same numbers in the data room, the board pack, and the return
How it works: review, fix the gaps, keep it current.
Step 01: Read the file
First call to day 5What exists, what's missing, and what it costs to fix. Written down, before you commit.
Step 02: Close the gaps
Timeline depends on what's missingMissing agreements put in place, late filings addressed with tax and legal specialists, records organized and indexed.
Step 03: Keep it current
Every month afterEach close, filing, and cross-charge lands in the file as it happens.
Step 04: Open the room
When the round startsThe finance section is populated from what's already there, not built from scratch.
Asked about diligence on most first calls.
It's the cheapest time. Everything on the list is quicker and less expensive to put right before a term sheet exists than during a process.
Find out how diligence-ready you are. Start with a free 30-minute review.
A written summary of what's filed, what's late, what's undocumented, and what it costs to fix. Free, whether or not you hire us.
Or write to hello@naveh.ai. We reply within one business day.