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The analysis tools we actually use, built into the site instead of locked in a spreadsheet template — put in your own numbers, get a real result. No signup required.

Portfolio theory

Efficient Frontier Optimizer

Enter expected return, volatility, and correlation for up to 8 assets and see the Markowitz efficient frontier plotted live — including the minimum-variance and max-Sharpe portfolios.

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Valuation

DCF Valuation Model

A full discounted cash flow model in your browser: revenue build, free cash flow, terminal value, and a WACC/growth sensitivity table — no Excel required.

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Portfolio theory

Portfolio Backtest Calculator

Set an allocation across stocks, bonds, REITs, gold and cash, pick a historical period, and see the CAGR, volatility, and max drawdown it would have produced. Download the report — free, no signup, no paywall.

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Valuation

Relative Valuation / Comps Calculator

Enter a peer group's financials and apply their median P/E, P/B, EV/Revenue and EV/EBITDA multiples to your own company to get an implied valuation range — the method most real-world valuations actually lean on.

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Valuation

Cost of Capital (WACC) Calculator

Build a proper discount rate: bottom-up beta from a peer group, unlevered and relevered at your own capital structure, plus a synthetic credit rating for cost of debt if you don't have one already.

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Valuation

Implied Cost of Equity Calculator

Back out the required rate of return the market is already pricing in, from a stock's P/B ratio, ROE, and growth — Damodaran's P/BV framework, with a live multi-company comparison table.

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Valuation

Growth Rate Justification Calculator

A growth rate isn't a number you copy from a screener — it's what reinvestment rate and return on capital actually produce. See the factors, get the growth rate they justify, and check it against whatever number you were about to use.

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Valuation

Valuation Assumption Analyst

Enter your growth, margin, ROIC, and discount-rate assumptions and pick an industry — get only the questions an equity analyst would actually raise about those specific numbers, not a generic checklist.

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Trading

Buy Zone & Stop-Loss Calculator

Enter a breakout's buy point and your entry price. See the 5% buy zone, your 7-8% stop, how much cushion a normal pullback leaves you, and whether breakout volume confirmed the move.

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Private equity

LBO Model Calculator

A full leveraged buyout model: entry purchase price, debt/equity structure, a cash-sweep paydown schedule, and exit MOIC/IRR — plus an entry × exit multiple sensitivity grid, the actual point of the exercise.

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Financial modelling

3-Statement Model Calculator

A fully linked income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement — working capital driven by real days-based ratios, PP&E rolled forward properly, and a live balance check proving assets actually equal liabilities plus equity.

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AI · Investment research

AI Investment Memo Generator

Turn a startup's basic details into a structured investment-memo-style summary — opportunity, market thesis, key risks, use-of-funds read, and four sharp diligence questions. Organizes what you tell it and asks better questions; never tells you whether to invest.

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Portfolio theory

Monte Carlo Portfolio Simulator

Run 3,000 randomised future market paths against your savings or retirement plan and see the probability of hitting your goal — or running out of money — instead of a single average-case number.

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Portfolio theory

Asset Correlation Matrix

Real historical correlation coefficients between stocks, bonds, REITs, gold and cash — computed from data, not guessed — plus a rolling stock/bond correlation chart showing how 2022 broke the classic 60/40 assumption.

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Guide · Careers

How to Build a Finance Portfolio That Gets You Hired

The project types that actually show up in strong VC, PE, and IB portfolios — LBO models, 3-statement models, DCF/comps, investment memos — each linked to a free tool to build it with.

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Guide

Build an Econometric Model in Python

A from-scratch walkthrough of OLS regression with statsmodels — assumptions, diagnostics, and a worked example predicting early-stage funding outcomes.

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Founder FAQ

Thinking About Selling? The Questions Nobody Asks

An interactive FAQ on exits — valuation, LOIs, earnouts, escrow holdbacks, non-competes. Every answer has the short version and the "but" that actually matters.

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Reference

Finance Glossary

Plain-English definitions for 80+ terms across startups & VC, valuation, financial statements, portfolio theory, markets, and personal finance — cross-linked to the actual tools where one exists.

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These tools are for education and modelling practice. They don't account for every real-world factor (fees, taxes, liquidity constraints, estimation error) and nothing here is investment advice — see our terms & risk disclosure.