Metrics that Matter: How Silicon Valley VCs Look at Your Company
Watch Ryno Blignaut, Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, as he shares how top Silicon Valley VCs evaluate your company—and what metrics actually drive trust, investment, and strategic decisions. 👇
Inside the journey
Unpack how top-tier investors think about business performance with Ryno Blignaut, Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures and former CFO of RH and Xoom. Drawing from decades of experience as both operator and investor, Ryno will walk through how Silicon Valley VCs truly assess startups — and how most companies get it wrong.
In this session, we’ll cut through the noise of momentum metrics like ARR and MRR, and focus on the fundamentals that actually drive strategic decisions: CAC payback, contribution margin, LTV, and real cash flow. You'll learn how to define your business through a simple, actionable financial equation and how to use it to build trust with your team, board, and investors.
Hosted by Aleph, this session is a masterclass in building financial narratives that are grounded, transparent, and investor-ready.
Watch above to learn:
- Why most “impressive” metrics fail under VC scrutiny
- How to define your business through a simple unit economics formula
- What VCs look for in CAC, payback periods, and contribution margin
- How to present your financials to boards with clarity and credibility
- The dangers of GAAP distractions like software capitalization
- The difference between cash flow storytelling and financial theater
- What Ryno wishes more startup finance leaders understood
- Plus, much more…
See how Aleph can help you build a metrics-driven business investors actually trust
Leverage automation and AI to eliminate manual, error-prone reporting — so you can focus on the metrics that matter most, like CAC payback, contribution margin, and real cash flow. Aleph helps teams turn financial data into investor-ready insights.
