Investment Ready - Get Funded
Move from science-heavy and overlooked to well-connected, clearly understood, and fundable. Investment Ready helps WA startup founders increase their odds of funding by focusing on the three things that matter most in Australia:
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Connecting you to the funders and decision-makers who actually influence funding outcomes.
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Building a communication stack that resonates with how those funders make decisions.
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Utilising AI to 10x your productivity and quality, so you can spend more time building your business - not trying to get it funded.
The West Australian Funding Reality
Access Matters More Than Excellence
In Australia, funding is still heavily influenced by who you know and who you're partnered with.
WA teams are less connected to national decision-makers (grant reviewers, specialist health investors and health-system executives). Distance and limited national exposure mean fewer warm introductions, less early feedback and fewer opportunities to build trust.
Most still struggle to communicate what matters
Even when the connections do exist, many researchers and innovators struggle to translate complex science into a fundable, investable story.
They often lack a repeatable method to align positioning, evidence narrative, economics and slide logic to how funders assess risk, outcomes and pathways to adoption. This can result in materials that are technically strong but not decision-ready.
What Investment Ready Does
Investment Ready is a high-touch, 4-month cohort program for WA founders building healthtech/medtech/biotech ventures who want to raise ~$1.5M diluted capital and secure non-dilutive funding.
Backwards Planning
We work backwards from the exact funding outcomes your target investors want, then build the assets investors and grant assessors actually expect.
15 Week Curated Curriculum
A structured learning journey covering decision mechanics, communication strategy, how to use AI tools to 10x productivity and quality, and live practice with real funders.
Build With You Your Communication Stack With AI-Enabled Capability
Build a funder-ready communication stack, narrative, evidence, commercial logic, pitch deck, grants, and website, produced faster and at higher quality by learning to use AI tools to 10x productivity and quality.
Structured Access
Structured access to national funders and decision-makers throughout the program, not just theory. Including Arch Angels, Medical Angels, Startmate and grant assessors.
The Transformation That You Will Achieve
Connections That Matter
Direct access to the types of funders and decision-makers you should be targeting, built throughout the program.
Clear Engagement Plan
A funder target list with engagement strategy: who to approach, how to reach them, and why they're the right fit for your venture.
Decision-Ready Assets
Pitch deck with slide logic, grant applications, and other communication assets built specifically for your target funders.
Website And Other Communication Assets That Converts
Short website structure with copy blocks that support fundraising, providing clarity, credibility, and conversion. Plus, grant advice, engagement assets, Q+A practice plus more.
AI Capability
The knowledge and skills to use AI to build all communication assets faster and at a higher quality, permanently.
Build the Stack Investors Actually Evaluate
This is not "learn to pitch better." It is building the exact assets that remove friction from funding decisions and learning a repeatable AI-enabled method you can reuse for every raise and grant round. Assets are created with your target investors and decision-makers in mind.
Positioning & Narrative
A clear answer to: what you do, who it's for, why it matters, why you win, why now.
Evidence Narrative
What evidence matters for this funder, how to frame it, what's missing, and what to generate next.
Commercial Logic
Market, business model, GTM, pathway to adoption, sustainability beyond the grant, milestones, and risk.
Pitch Deck & Assets
A deck and/or grant built to match how investors assess: problem, solution, proof, plan, ask.
Website Structure
A simple site that supports the raise with clarity, credibility, and conversion.
Live Pitch & Q&A
Practised delivery, concise answers, and confidence under pressure.
What You'll Learn
Decision Mechanics
How funding decisions are actually made across VCs, grant assessors, and health-system decision-makers, and how to align to each.
Decision-Ready Communication
Translating complex science into clear differentiation, commercial logic, and a narrative that holds up to scrutiny.
Funder Engagement
Who to approach, how to reach them, how to handle questions, and how to progress real conversations.
AI-Enabled Execution
Using modern tools to build decks, grants, websites, and supporting assets faster and at higher quality, without compromising credibility.
Proof & Sustainability
What evidence to generate, how to show it, and how funders think about risk, implementation, and life after the grant.
Investment ready comprises of a 15 week curriculum with
The 15 Week Curriculum
Each week includes 2x 1.5-hour virtual sessions:
- Communication basics, problem and stakeholder clarity
- Differentiation, brand and influence
- Commercial sustainability and evidence generation strategy
- Funder targets and engagement strategies
- Storytelling slide craft and website logic
What Makes This Different
Before You Begin
Submit your current communication stack. Complete a tailored questionnaire. Receive a 1:1 (1.5hr) strategy session. Leave with a 4-month build plan.
10 Week Hands-On Build Phase (beginning week 6)
- Full-day in-person build session in Perth
- Regular "build with you" sessions with AI and communication experts
- Hands-on use of tools like Gamma, ChatGPT and AI website builders
- Build your pitch deck, website and funding assets during the program
Real Exposure & Mentorship
- 1:1 access to leading investors and decision-makers across Australia.
- Weekly Ask Me Anything/office hours.
- Ad-hoc weekly mentoring with selected decision-makers and investors.
- Program concludes with in-person Pitch Night, followed by closed-door pitch sessions with selected funders. Multiple opportunities possible.
Who You'll Learn From
Richard Macliver - Program Lead
Works at the intersection of healthcare, venture capital, and funding decision-making. Brings direct experience inside healthcare and VC environments, and has supported organisations to raise or influence $55m+ in funding outcomes.
Ella Clark - AI Lead
Translates complex AI capability into practical, funder-safe workflows. Brings hands-on experience building AI products, helping founders produce investor-ready assets faster without sacrificing quality.
Oliver Tweddell - Automation Lead
Applies AI and automation to scale operations, turning manual work into repeatable systems. Works directly with founders to build compliant execution capability required to be investment ready and scale.
Ready to become investment ready?
Only 15 places are available. Apply below and we'll get back to you within two business days.