Valuation Benchmark Tool

Valuation Benchmark Tool empowers founders, CFOs, and investors to anchor valuation discussions in hard market data. This tool fetches recent venture deals across your specific sector and funding stage, maps key metrics like ARR, GMV, and user count against comparable cohorts, and benchmarks your numbers by quartile positioning. Perfect for investor decks, negotiations, or data room uploads.

What is the Valuation Benchmark Tool?

This app automates startup valuation benchmarking using real-time deal data and market multiples. It contextualizes your performance across industry-specific cohorts and outputs percentile-ranked tables you can use directly in funding conversations.

Benchmarking includes:

• Multiples: EV/ARR, EV/GMV, EV/User
• Metric Quartiles: 25th, 50th, 75th percentiles
• Positioning Insights: Your performance percentile by metric

Why use this app?

• 📊 Evidence-Based Valuation
  Justify your ask with credible market comparables and data-backed logic.

• 🔢 Insightful Multiples
  Instantly see how your unit economics stack up against current market deals by vertical and stage.

• 🧾 Ready-for-Room Output
  Generate clean, investor-friendly benchmarking tables and summaries you can paste directly into your pitch deck or data room.

• 🤝 Negotiation Power
  Use percentile positioning to drive valuation confidence and avoid low-ball offers.

How it works

1. Provide your context
   Input your sector, funding stage, and current key metrics (ARR, GMV, etc.).

2. Run the benchmark
   The tool fetches recent deals and computes quartile-based comparisons.

3. Get decision-grade output
   Receive a polished table showing your company’s rank across key metrics, plus investor-facing insights.

What you'll need to provide

To generate the benchmark, the app will ask:

• Sector/Vertical (e.g. Fintech, Marketplace, B2B SaaS)
• Funding Stage (Seed, Series A, etc.)
• Core Metrics (e.g. ARR, GMV, users — with latest values)
• (Optional): Specific comps or transactions for tighter comparison

Who it's for

• Founders preparing for funding rounds
• CFOs updating data rooms and investor briefs
• VCs and analysts evaluating deal positioning
• Accelerators benchmarking cohort performance