Activate risk capital in your community
The Venture Readiness Program trains fast-growth entrepreneurs to become capital fluent: not just pitch-ready, but deal-structure ready.
Every founder needs capital. Not every founder needs, or wants, venture capital. Yet few programs teach founders how to navigate the full capital stack.
Capital exists in your community but many founders can’t access it.
Across the country, entrepreneurs are launching companies that can scale but, too often, they are forced into the wrong capital structures. Traditional venture capital is not built for most regions or industries.
At the same time, community lenders, CDFIs, and public funding tools struggle to serve founders aiming for fast-but-sustainable growth.
Without the Venture Readiness Program, founders are left choosing between two incomplete options.
On one side: venture capital—high-growth, high-bar, and often high-friction.
On the other: debt and public funding—accessible, but risk-averse and rarely structured for scale.
Founders are left choosing between dilution and denial. CDFIs and ESOs are left under-equipped to help founders model risk capital. And regional investors struggle to deploy flexible capital efficiently.
What is missing is a shared language, and a practical pathway, to bridge equity, debt, and hybrid models under one readiness framework.
Designed to complement, not compete.
The Venture Readiness Program is designed to complement—not compete with—your local accelerators, CDFIs, revolving loan funds, or micro-equity initiatives. Our structure plugs directly into what you are already doing, and strengthens it.
We’re here to help your community thrive
After years of personal and professional experience, we founded Bloom Coaching to help individuals and teams make their business dreams a reality. With our comprehensive guided resources, you’ll unearth renewed confidence and tactics to help your business thrive.
Through standardized curriculum, local Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, and community-rooted mentorship, founders gain practical, strategic insight into how to build investment cases that return capital across multiple pathways.
Our model does not push one form of funding. It prepares founders to blend capital sources—revenue-based financing, low-interest debt, grant-to-equity stacking, acquisition prep, custom SAFE terms, and more.
We help ESOs and CDFIs run smoother, by embedding capital structure logic and founder readiness into their pipelines. The result: better-prepared founders, better-aligned investors, and smarter capital deployed faster.
What We Deliver:
✔️ 10 hours of 1:1 coaching per founder
✔️ Trained EIRs rooted in each city
✔️ Risk capital modeling that includes debt, equity, and hybrid pathways
✔️ Investor and mentor matchmaking tailored to capital goals
✔️ Standardized tools for ESOs and capital providers
✔️ Free to founders, funded by local ecosystems
