For founders

Your company doesn’t have to end here.

If runway is short and the next round isn’t coming, there is still a path that doesn’t end in shutdown. One where you can keep building, keep your team, and keep real upside in what you started.

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Where you are

You may not be where you think you are.

Fundraising has stalled or not gaining traction.

Your unit economics are stuck, every new customer increases your OPEX.

Revenue has stalled, and you cannot break back into growth.

Turnover, cost cuts, founders taking on more day after day.

There is debt on the books, and a cap table that is messy.

You are down to a few months of runway.

Your options, today

The market today is not built for rescuing startups.

For a venture-backed company that’s between rounds and running low, the market only has these options:

Raise another round

Venture-scale numbers weren't met. The growth narrative has shifted. Existing investors aren't following on.

Take on venture debt

Runway is too short to underwrite. No next round in sight to repay against. Burn still outpaces revenue.

M&A

Below the size most acquirers move for. A distressed sale prices as a firesale. Acquihires and asset strips keep none of the business, the team, or the upside.

Cut to breakeven

Cuts deep enough to reach it remove the ability to grow. Cutting and operating at once is slow. The runway runs out before the math turns.

Every path needs what a stuck company no longer has: time, profitability, or another round.

The alternative path

There is a version where the company lives.

Laplace provides bridge capital, fixes the unit economics, and resets the structure that trapped the company. The cap table gets cleaned, the cost base gets lean, and the upside founders and their team hold is re-vamped to mean something.

Before reset

Debt & obligations

Stacked preferences

Earlier preferred

Option overhang

Founders & team common

A sliver, buried under the stack, paid last.

The reset

clears the stack,
resets the cost base

After reset

Clean common

team & founders

re-vamped to mean something

Lean operating structure

Founders and team, forward and on clean common.

Clean common is the goal. Here is what that stake can become.

Profit distributions

Once the business is profitable, your stake shares the cash it generates. A return without selling.

Equity appreciation

As the business compounds, the value of what you hold grows with it.

A path to liquidity

A fair-market buyout, priced on what the business actually earns, or continued profit generation and scale.

Optionality, from strength

Raise, partner, or sell on fair terms, by choice and not necessity.

No forced exit. It is built as a long-term partnership, not a flip on someone else’s clock. Your stake earns as the business earns.

Engagement options

More than one way in.

Not every company needs a full acquisition on day one. Engage at the level that fits where you are right now.

01 · Start here

Default Alive diagnostic

A working session on your real numbers: burn, runway, and unit economics. We pressure-test if you can reach default alive and map the fastest path to profit.

02 · Hands on

Operator support

Seasoned operators embedded next to your team to do the work in product, revenue, and finance. Execution alongside you, without a full strategy engagement attached.

03 · The plan

Gameplan & strategy

A custom playbook to profitability: the levers, sequencing, and targets delivered as strategy, without Laplace capital or embedded operators attached.

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The earlier we talk, the more we can save.

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