3 Essential Templates Every AI Startup Needs 🚀🤖

Raise smarter, scale faster: the essential toolkit for today’s leading tech startups 💸

👋 Hey, Linas here! Welcome to a special issue of my daily newsletter. Each day, I focus on 3 stories that are making a difference in the financial technology space. Coupled with things worth watching & most important money movements, it’s the only newsletter you need for all things when Finance meets Tech. If you’re reading this for the first time, it’s a brilliant opportunity to join a community of 355k+ FinTech leaders:

Building a FinTech or an AI startup is hard.

Raising money for one is even harder.

But the truth is: investors don’t just fund ideas - they fund clarity. And clarity comes from having the right documents in place.

That’s why today I’ve pulled together 3 powerful templates used by top startups and VCs. They’ll save you time, sharpen your story, and make investors lean in instead of tune out.

Here’s what’s inside:

✅ Due Diligence Checklist - the must-have doc investors review before wiring capital.

✅ Investment Memo - a proven framework to simplify complex decisions.

✅ Investor Updates - the format that keeps your backers engaged (and ready for follow-on checks).

✅ Plus, you will unlock full access to 280+ AI Tools You Should Know, The Ultimate Financial Plan for SaaS & AI Startups, and Top AI Agent Startups of 2025.

These aren’t just nice-to-haves. They’re startup survival tools. So let’s dive in: