Founder · Series B SaaS
From 3am wake-ups to a regulated nervous system in 9 weeks
Co-founder, late-30s — climate-tech SaaS (Western Europe)
A founder three months out from a Series B raise, sleeping four hours a night with a HRV of 24ms. Nine weeks of Reset + daily anchors restored sleep, doubled HRV, and got the round closed without collapse.
Context
Three months out from a Series B raise, she was sleeping four hours a night, snapping at her co-founder, and using caffeine to push through investor calls. Her HRV had collapsed to 24ms. She'd tried meditation apps, a sleep coach, and a low-dose SSRI — none of it stuck.
The pattern
The pattern wasn't psychological — it was physiological. Her sympathetic nervous system had no off-switch, and the stack she'd assembled all targeted symptoms instead of the underlying tone.
What we did
- •Reset protocol (10 days) to break the sympathetic lock
- •Daily anchor stack: morning vagal breathing + post-call physiological sigh + evening cold rinse
- •Weekly 1:1 coaching to renegotiate three meetings/week she didn't need to be in
- •Journal app to track baseline state vs. trigger pattern
Outcomes
Avg sleep
4.1h → 7.3h
HRV (90-day avg)
24ms → 58ms
Resting HR
78 → 61 bpm
Time to fall asleep
47min → 9min
"I closed the round at a higher valuation than I asked for, and I did it without grinding myself into the ground. The frame shift was realising I was the bottleneck — not the deck, not the pipeline. Me."
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