I am a solo technical founder looking for a CTO/co-founder who will come on-board for a product that is already in MVP stage, has had buzz and starting to generate revenue. I have already built the MVP over the last 10 months and the product is live and currently in paid pilot with revenue.
Product:
Tactyc (https://tactyc.io) brings financial models to life by transforming Excel models (i.e. spreadsheets with formulas) into intuitive and interactive browser-based dashboards. These dashboards enable users to control and analyze a financial model with simple sliders, perform sensitivity analysis and gather meaningful insights automatically with a couple of clicks in the browser. At the core of the platform is a proprietary engine that can calculate any spreadsheet with formulas on the cloud - without Microsoft Excel.
Unlike other analytics platforms (for e.g. Tableau or PowerBI), that are only focused on raw data and cannot work with Excel functions, Tactyc actually understands the logic in a spreadsheet to extract insights for the user.
Problem Statement:
Tactyc automates the entire sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis workflow of a model into a couple of clicks. By answering “what-ifs” before they are even asked, users can make smarter decisions from models. And the web-based interactive dashboard makes it super-intuitive (and fun!) to work with a model vs. a spreadsheet. The target market for Tactyc are deep-pocketed financial services firms and corporate finance teams that frequently work with Excel models (investment banks, PEs, hedge funds etc.)
Progress:
The product has had a successful MVP launch and is currently earning (small) revenue from pilot customers. The product has been evangelized by some of the highest profile influencers in the finance and investing community who have built their own dashboards on my product. The “Dean of Valuation”, Prof. Aswath Damodaran recently tweeted about his dashboards for tech stocks with more than 100,000 visits to his dashboards.
What I am looking for:
As a solo founder, I am looking to build a team around the product and raise seed funding later this year – and am seeking a technical partner who would take up the full-time CTO role and would also be a co-founder in the company. Ability to work with code themselves (Python backend, JS front end) is important until a seed round enables us to build a engineering team.