How to Read Your SaaS Like an Investor (Even at $0–$1M ARR)
A live conversation for very early B2B SaaS founders who want to understand their numbers before an investor asks them to.
About this event
The metrics that investors use to evaluate your company — CAC payback, NRR, burn multiple, runway — don't become relevant at Series A. They become relevant the moment you have a customer, a dollar of revenue, and a decision to make about where to spend the next month of your life.
The founders who walk into their first serious investor conversations with clarity on these numbers don't have finance teams. They have a simple tracking habit, a plain-language understanding of what each metric is actually measuring, and the confidence that comes from knowing their own business before someone else tries to tell them what it means.
Yannick is joined by a special guest — a CFO or seed investor who evaluates early-stage B2B SaaS decks regularly and can give you the plain-language version of what they're actually looking for in the numbers. Guest details will be confirmed shortly..
We'll cover:
CAC payback, NRR, burn multiple, and runway explained in plain language — what each one measures and why investors care about it at your stage
The scrappiest possible way to start tracking each metric before you have a finance team or a proper data stack
What healthy looks like at $0–$1M ARR — and how much variance investors actually tolerate this early
How to talk about your metrics in an investor conversation when the numbers are early and imperfect
Then we open the floor. Bring your numbers — or your questions about which numbers you should even have. The Q&A is live and unfiltered.
Format: 25-min conversation + 15-min live Q&A
Who this is for: B2B SaaS and applied AI founders at pre-seed or idea stage — and the angels and operators who work with them at the earliest stages.
Your Host
Yannick Kpodar is a 2x VP/CMO turned General Partner at Aventra Capital and founder of Full Stack CEO™. Over 15+ years, he's helped B2B SaaS teams raise $396M+, reach unicorn valuation, and scale from single-digit ARR to $45M+ across the US and Europe — at companies including LinkedIn, PayFit, and Amenitiz. At Aventra Capital, he evaluates seed decks every week — which means he sees exactly where early founders lose investor confidence on metrics, and exactly what it looks like when they don't.
About Full Stack CEO™
Full Stack CEO™ is the operating system for B2B SaaS & AI founders from first revenue to $25M ARR — GTM, metrics, capital, and leadership built for the age of AI. The community, Labs, and advisory are built around one idea: that the founders who win are the ones who can read the whole system, not just the function they grew up in.
Members get direct access to a room of serious peers, weekly working sessions with Yannick, and live AMAs with the operators, exited founders, and VCs behind the program.