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Nella for startups
Your investors will ask about runway. Nella already knows the answer.
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How does Nella help startups?
Nella connects read-only to your accounting software and answers the questions that come up between board meetings — how much cash you hold, what you are burning each month, how long that lasts at the current rate, and how those figures have moved since last quarter. The runway figure is derived from your ledger, so it reflects what has actually been recorded rather than a forecast built by hand in a spreadsheet.
What makes the numbers hard here.
Runway is the whole question
Every other metric is downstream of how many months of cash are left, and that number changes with every hire and every invoice.
The board asks between board meetings
Investor questions rarely wait for the pack, and rebuilding the answer by hand each time is slow and error-prone.
Burn is not one number
Gross burn, net burn and the effect of a single large receipt pull in different directions, and a monthly average hides the month that mattered.
Finance is somebody’s third job
Until there is a finance hire, the founder owns the numbers on top of everything else.
Questions you can ask Nella
These are asked in plain English, and answered from your own figures.
- How much cash do we have and how long does it last at the current rate?
- What did we burn last month, and how does that compare with the three months before?
- How much of our revenue comes from our largest customer?
- What are our biggest cost lines this quarter versus last?
- How much are we owed, and how much of it is overdue?
- How has our monthly revenue moved over the last six months?
Nella provides financial information and education, not accounting or tax advice. Nella shows you the numbers; a qualified accountant at AccTek advises you on them. When a question needs professional judgement, Nella points you to the team.
What Nella watches between your questions
- Cash and runway, derived from the ledger and updated as the books are
- Monthly burn and how it is trending
- Revenue concentration — how much sits with one customer
- Your Nella Score across five dimensions of financial health
- The bank feed: Nella tells you when it stops updating, so a quiet feed is not mistaken for a quiet month
Alerts between questions are part of Nella Paid.
What Nella cannot do
Nella connects read-only. It cannot create, edit or delete anything in your books, reconcile the bank, file a return with HMRC or Companies House, or move money. It reports what your accounting software already holds.
Runway is calculated from what is recorded in your accounting software, not from a bank connection. It reflects your ledger, so it is only as current as your bookkeeping. Nella flags stale or unreconciled data rather than scoring around it.
Nella connects to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent. How deeply it can read varies by platform — the supported-platform table sets out what is read on each. See how your data is handled.