Next milestone
Early Traction
Founder radar · Road to your raise
Know exactly where you are
Know exactly where you are
on the road to your raise.
dotKot reads your public footprint, places your startup on the path from idea to funding, and tells you what to do this week to move forward.
One question to start — your website. Free for founders. No deck required.
✓Your current phase and the next milestone
✓The one blocker standing between you and the next round
✓Three actions for this week — updated as you move
YOUR TRAJECTORY
LIVE
updated today · 04:00
Progress to Pre-seed0%
Main blockerMarket validation gap
Next milestoneEarly Traction · first paying users
Do this next · ~3–4 weeks
Define the smallest shippable prototype scope+4%
Recruit 5 design-partner testers+6%
Cut features that delay first feedback+3%
Built for founders before and between rounds
Idea → Pre-seed
Pre-seed → Seed
Seed → Series A
Bootstrapped
About dotKot
A radar that reads what you already show the world.
dotKot continuously tracks startups through public sources — your website, app stores, GitHub, hiring, press, partnerships. Investors use it as a live radar for momentum and risk.
The founder side turns the same radar on your own startup: it maps your public footprint onto the road from idea to funding, shows the phase you are actually in, and keeps a short list of what moves you to the next one.
Nothing to fill in to get started. Add your metrics later if you want a sharper picture — on your terms, when it helps you.
Enter your website
That is the whole onboarding. dotKot finds your company, its LinkedIn page, apps and repos and confirms it is yours.
~1 minutedotKot reads your footprint
Website, App Store, GitHub, hiring, press, partnerships, conference talks — the same public signals investors look at.
minutes, then dailyGet your trajectory
Your current phase, the main blocker, the next milestone and three actions for this week. Updated every night as your footprint changes.
liveHOW YOUR FOOTPRINT BECOMES A TRAJECTORYpublic sources · read daily
Your journey with dotKot
Climb the road — and show up on the investor radar.
Every action you close moves your phase. Every phase you reach is public evidence. dotKot turns that evidence into the signal investors are already watching for.
01
You start with a website
dotKot places you on the road — First Validation, 22% to Pre-seed — and names the one blocker in your way.
02
You close this week's actions
Design partners recruited, scope cut, first feedback in. Each closed action adds its share of progress.
03
The engine confirms the climb
Releases, a hire, a partnership show up in your public footprint. The phase moves to Early Traction — from evidence, not from a checkbox.
04
Investors see you move
The same signals light up on the investor radar: your startup enters «New on radar» with momentum building. You decide what else they may see.
Your climb · phases & micro-phasesProgress to Pre-seed22%
YOU'RE HERE
NEW ON RADAR
● Growth
INVESTOR RADARLIVEwhat investors see
VO
Volt Analytics
voltanalytics.io · Developer tools · US
StageEarly Traction
Coverage17 of 26
Momentum▲ building
Key signalsApp releases · 2 / 30dHiring +2 rolesPartnership announced
Added to Watching · matched your presetOpen card →
The investor card shows only public signals and what you chose to publish — never your private metrics. ↻ Replay
Why founders use it
Stop guessing whether you are ready to raise.
Most founders learn where they stand from investor rejections. dotKot tells you first — and what to fix.
YOUR RADARLIVEwhat investors see · mirrored to you
App releases shipping2 in 30d
GitHub activity▲ active
Hiring+2 roles
Press mentionsquiet · 90d
Partnerships1 announced
See yourself the way the market sees you.
Investors already watch your releases, hiring, press and partnerships. dotKot mirrors that view back to you — so you notice what is working, and what has gone quiet, before anyone else does.
✓Same public signals, no investor scoring
✓Neutral and positive only — we do not grade you
✓Updated nightly, minutes after sign-up
See your phase, not a vibe
Idea, POC, First Validation, Early Traction, MVP, Pre-seed… dotKot places you on a 17-phase road from public evidence, not from how you feel this week.
Know what moves you forward
One main blocker and three concrete actions for the current phase, each with its share of progress. Tick them off; the engine confirms real movement from your signals.
Metrics, runway and market in one place
Add MRR, costs and team when you are ready. dotKot turns them into runway, growth velocity and a one-pager you can send — without rebuilding a deck.
Publish on your terms
Your page is private by default. When you are ready, choose exactly what investors can see — document by document, metric by metric.
A data room that builds itself
Drop a deck or a one-pager; dotKot reads it, fills your profile and keeps an up-to-date one-pager ready for the moment an investor asks.
Free. Always, for founders
No founder tier, no paywall on your own data. Investors pay for the radar; you pay nothing to see where you stand.
We don't monetize founder data.
dotKot never passes what you enter to investors without your explicit per-item consent. Your trajectory, metrics and documents stay yours; we help you decide when sharing them benefits you.
Private by default
Per-item consent
Delete anytime
Company-domain email = ownership
Examples
Three founders, three very different next steps.
What a founder dashboard looks like at different points on the road.
VO
Volt Analytics
Developer tools · bootstrapped
Current phase
First Validation
Progress to Pre-seed · 34%
Main blocker
Market validation gap
Do this next
Define smallest shippable scope
Recruit 5 design-partner testers
Cut features that delay feedback
Radar: GitHub active · 2 releases / 30d▲ moving
NX
Nyx Health
Medtech · pre-seed raised
Current phase
MVP 1.0 · First Clients
Progress to Seed · 58%
Main blocker
No public customer proof
Next milestone
Repeatable sales
Do this next
Sign 3 pilot agreements
Ship onboarding for clinics
Draft a first customer case study
Radar: 2 senior hires · 1 partnership▲ moving
AC
Acme Robotics
Hardware · seed raised, 11 months ago
Current phase
Post-investment execution
Progress to Series A · 41%
Main blocker
Footprint gone quiet: no releases, no press for 90 days
Fundraising window
Open in ~4 months · runway-aware
Do this next
Publish the pilot results you already have
Amplify customer and product wins
Update the one-pager before outreach
Radar: hiring flat · press quiet■ quiet
Illustrative companies. Every trajectory is computed from public signals and the founder's own inputs; no investor scoring is shown to founders.
Questions founders ask
Straight answers.
Is it really free?
Yes. The founder side has no paid tier. Investors pay for the radar; founders never pay to see their own trajectory.
Will investors see my data?
Not unless you choose to. Your page is private by default. Publishing is per item — you decide which documents and metrics become visible, and you can switch it off.
Do I have to enter metrics?
No. The trajectory starts from your public footprint alone. Metrics, costs and team make the picture sharper and unlock runway and growth velocity — add them when it helps you.
How do you know which phase I'm in?
dotKot compares your public signals with what startups typically show at each of 17 phases from idea to Series B. Your own inputs refine it but never override the evidence.
What do I need to sign up?
An email on your company domain and your website. That is how dotKot confirms the startup is yours.
How often does it update?
Your footprint is read within minutes after sign-up and then every night. Big changes — a release, a hire, press — show up the next morning.
Your trajectory is one URL away.
Enter your website, confirm it is yours, and see your phase, blocker and this week's actions in minutes. Free for founders.