The Fundable Business Plan: Write a Business Plan Investors Will Fund

Candice Harmon is a venture advisor, startup finance instructor, and former early-stage investor with fifteen years of experience evaluating and building fundable businesses. She has reviewed more than 2,500 business plans across SaaS, healthcare, fintech, and consumer products, and has advised over 100 founders who have collectively raised more than $400 million from angel investors, venture capital firms, and strategic corporate partners.

She began her career as an analyst at a top-tier venture capital firm in Boston, where she evaluated deal flow across enterprise software and digital health. After six years on the investor side, she transitioned to working directly with founders, serving as the head of startup programming at a major accelerator program where she designed the curriculum that helped early-stage companies refine their pitches, build financial models, and close their first institutional rounds.

Candice has taught business planning and fundraising workshops at Harvard Innovation Labs, MIT Sandbox, and General Assembly, and she is a regular speaker at SXSW, TechCrunch Disrupt, and the Venture Capital Summit. Her writing on fundraising strategy, unit economics, and founder-investor dynamics has appeared in *TechCrunch*, *Forbes*, and *Entrepreneur*. She is the author of two previous books: *The Resilient Founder* and *Pitch Ready: A Workbook for Startup Fundraising*.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she advises a portfolio of early-stage companies and serves on the board of the Oregon Entrepreneur Network. When she is not working with founders, she competes in trail ultramarathons and teaches financial literacy to high school students through a local nonprofit.