Solten Score: your signal for investment readiness
Build trust through clarity, consistency, and strategic narrative
The Solten Score™ is a proprietary metric that measures how well-positioned a startup is for investment. Designed for both founders and investors, it offers a fast, data-backed signal of a company’s strengths, gaps, and funding potential—based on real-world investor expectations. The score ranges from 0 to 100, offering a transparent snapshot of a startup's overall investability.
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How the Solten Score works
The Solten Score is derived from a rigorous analysis of 70+ data points across 12 strategic categories.
Each category contributes up to 10 points, combining to a total of 100. This structure delivers a holistic view of a startup’s trajectory, readiness, and scalability.
Financial Health
Assesses financial stability, revenue trends, burn rate, and runway.
• Metrics: Revenue growth, cash runway, unit economics, burn multiple.
Product–Market Fit
Measures alignment between the product and its intended market.
• Metrics: Retention, churn, user feedback, competitive relevance.
Market Potential
Analyzes total addressable market (TAM), growth rate, and share potential.
• Metrics: Market size, velocity, trend alignment.
Team & Leadership
Evaluates the founder(s), key hires, and organizational maturity.
• Metrics: Domain expertise, execution history, team dynamics.
Risk Profile
Identifies key risks across financial, operational, market, and legal areas.
• Metrics: Regulatory exposure, IP vulnerabilities, concentration risk.
Operational Efficiency
Examines internal processes, customer delivery, and scalability.
• Metrics: Process automation, scalability signals, quality controls.
Legal & Compliance
Assures foundational compliance across legal, tax, and IP frameworks.
• Metrics: Corporate structure, IP protection, employment practices.
Traction & KPIs
Benchmarks key performance indicators across growth and engagement.
• Metrics: User growth, revenue, conversion, funnel consistency.
Investor Readiness
Assesses clarity, professionalism, and credibility in the capital-raising process.
• Metrics: Pitch materials, narrative strength, investor interaction.
Business Model Viability
Validates the scalability, sustainability, and monetization strategy.
• Metrics: Revenue design, pricing logic, cost structure.
Innovation & Technology
Measures technological edge and ability to differentiate at scale.
• Metrics: Tech stack, IP, R&D, defensibility.
Customer success & Retention
Evaluates satisfaction, loyalty, and repeat usage.
• Metrics: NPS, support quality, churn, upsell performance.
Solten Score for pre-seed startups
At early stages, not all metrics are equally weighted. For pre-seed companies, the Solten Score prioritizes signal over scale—highlighting potential through team strength, early validation, problem-solution fit, and future-facing readiness. Founders get credit for clarity of thinking, not just traction.
Founders
- Clarity – See what investors will see, before they do
- Focus – Pinpoint areas that move the needle on fundraising
- Credibility – Show up investor-ready with a third-party benchmark
Investors
- Efficiency – Filter high-potential startups faster
- Risk visibility – Spot red flags before due diligence
- Alignment – Compare startups using a shared, objective framework
Key benefits
- Transparent and objective scoring
- Actionable insights with custom recommendations
- Pre–post tracking for portfolio progress
- Designed for both founders and early-stage VCs
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