Unit economics

A 78 capital efficiency score, built from the dollars you raised and the ARR they bought

CX Cash reads your raised capital, net new ARR and magic number, then rolls them into one score that shows how much ARR each dollar of funding has produced.

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Capital raised

$22.0M

Net new ARR

$17.3M

Magic number

1.4

$1 in to ARR

$0.79

Score trend

Up 9 points over the last 4 quarters ▲ +9 pts

One score, the inputs behind it, and the dollars-in to ARR-out ratio investors check first.

You can quote your ARR, but not how hard each dollar worked to get it

Boards no longer wave through a high burn just because growth looks fast. They want to know how much ARR you bought for every dollar of funding, and whether that ratio is improving. Most founders cannot answer on the spot, because raised capital sits in one place, ARR in another, and magic number in a spreadsheet someone built last quarter. So the efficiency question lands and you reach for figures that do not line up, which reads as worse than the truth.

What you can do

One efficiency score

Raised capital, net new ARR and magic number combine into a single score that updates as your numbers land. No quarter-end assembly, no pulling three figures from three systems and hoping they agree.

Dollars in, ARR out

See exactly how much ARR each dollar of funding bought, the ratio investors run before anything else. Right now that reads $0.79 of ARR per dollar raised, and you can watch it move quarter over quarter.

Magic number in context

Your magic number sits next to the score, not buried in a tab, so you can tell whether sales spend is converting to revenue at a rate that justifies the burn.

The score trend

Track the efficiency score across quarters with the direction it is heading, so a slip shows up as a trend you can explain instead of a number you have to defend cold.

1 score

raised, ARR and magic number, combined

$0.79

ARR per dollar raised, shown live

Live

updates as your numbers land

Onboard in three steps

01
Connect your data

Link your billing system and your cap table or funding record. CX Cash derives net new ARR, pulls total raised, and computes the magic number with nothing to map by hand.
02
Read your score

The capital efficiency score lands on the dashboard with the inputs behind it: capital raised, net new ARR, magic number, and ARR per dollar raised.
03
Carry it into the room

Drill into any input to see what moved the score, then bring the same number to the board and the next raise instead of rebuilding it the night before.

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Questions

What is capital efficiency for a SaaS company? +

It measures how much recurring revenue you produced for the money you raised or burned. The common read is net new ARR divided by capital consumed: the higher the ratio, the more ARR each dollar bought. CX Cash turns that into one score so you can track it rather than recompute it.

How does the magic number fit in? +

The magic number compares net new ARR to the prior period's sales and marketing spend, so it shows whether go-to-market spend is converting efficiently. CX Cash places it alongside the overall score so you can see sales efficiency and capital efficiency together instead of one without the other.

Where do the numbers come from? +

Net new ARR comes from your connected billing system, total raised comes from your cap table or funding record, and the magic number is computed from your spend. Nothing is re-keyed, so the inputs stay consistent every period.

How often does the score update? +

It refreshes as your underlying data lands, so the figure on the dashboard reflects where you stand now rather than where you stood at the last quarter close.