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Bossa Nova Documents

For the benefit of first-time founders, we're publishing Bossa Nova documents as examples or templates. The documents are slightly redacted for privacy, and in view-only mode. Feel free to copy and reuse.

Fundraising

$5M Series A pitch that did NOT work because it lead with the robot, even included a live robot demonstration
$10M Series A pitch that DID work because it put data at the front and pushed the robot to the backstage - no more demos!
$30M Series B investment memo
$50M Series C pitch deck
Market segmentation calculations

Business Development

These are actual proposals that customers funded

PoC and Pilot proposal
Production rollout proposal that details an asset-light, ops-light model accepted by the customer

Finance

Financial forecast with actual numbers from Bossa Nova
Template forecast to copy and reuse, including:
1. RaaS, SaaS and CapEx business models
2. Unit economics
3. Sales forecast with script to populate sheet based on assumptions
4. OpEx with suggested numbers (actuals)
5. Employee costs that you can collapse and lock to prevent salary disclosures when sharing internally
6. Anonymization toggle for sharing with prospective investors or M&A prospects
Cloud computing COGS that we used at Bossa Nova and rolled into the forecast
Production payment plan, that also rolled into the forecast to estimate cash outlay (CapEx business model)

Operations

Manufacturing services agreement template for a large manufacturer
Manufacturing agreement template for a regional manufacturer
List of safety standards
Disaster Recovery plan

Onboarding

Company overview for new hires (comprehensive business description)
Onboarding plan
Employee handbook. Recommend using Mineral to build your own

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