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Raise $50K to $5M+ from hundreds of customers, fans, and friends—all in one line on your captable.
In <2 minutes, we can tell you if it's a good fit!
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2,453 fans
invested $4,914,037
alongside a16z & Coatue
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1,440 members
invested $4,999,989
alongside a16z
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6,948 customers
invested $4,537,310
alongside Backstage Capital
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2,589 fans
invested $5,240,140
alongside Coatue & a16z
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1,125 fans
invested $2,987,382
alongside FJ Labs
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6,688 fans
invested $7,809,219
alongside a16z
2,453 fans
invested $4,914,037
alongside a16z & Coatue
Read the case study
1,440 members
invested $4,999,989
alongside a16z
Read the case study
6,948 customers
invested $4,537,310
alongside Backstage Capital
Read the case study
2,589 fans
invested $5,240,140
alongside Coatue & a16z
Read the case study
1,125 fans
invested $2,987,382
alongside FJ Labs
Read the case study
6,688 fans
invested $7,809,219
alongside a16z
2,453 fans
invested $4,914,037
alongside a16z & Coatue
Read the case study
1,440 members
invested $4,999,989
alongside a16z
Read the case study
6,948 customers
invested $4,537,310
alongside Backstage Capital
Read the case study
2,589 fans
invested $5,240,140
alongside Coatue & a16z
Read the case study
1,125 fans
invested $2,987,382
alongside FJ Labs
Read the case study
6,688 fans
invested $7,809,219
alongside a16z
We’ve raised $709M for community-ledfounders
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"The next generation of founders will raise community rounds to access a broader & more diverse set of investors who can add value alongside traditional VCs."
Gale Wilkinson
Managing Partner, Vitalize Venture Capital
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"Treat your community like investors. Every community-driven startup should share ownership with their most valuable members."
Justin Kan
General Partner, Goat Capital
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"My favorite co-investor is the community. Startups that align incentives with customers, fans, and stakeholders have an inherent advantage."
Talia Goldberg
Partner, Bessemer Ventures
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"I've always found benefit from having angel investors, so why not have thousands of them?"
Amjad Masad
Founder, Replit
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"We wanted to give ownership to the community, so that when we’re successful, they’re successful."
Immad Akhund
Founder, Mercury
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"If users love a product so much that they invest in it, I consider it a positive signal. I support founders who offer ownership to their community."
Andrew Chen
General Partner, a16z
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"Turning users into owners is the ultimate way to create alignment. We look forward to investing alongside users in the next generation of world-changing brands."
Gautam Gupta
General Partner, TCV
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"This is going to become the new normal for a majority of great startups."
Alexis Ohanian
Founder, Seven Seven Six
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"I hate convincing someone who doesn't believe what I'm building is valuable, when I have 100,000 people who are buying my products to let me know that it's valuable."
Kim Lewis
Founder, CurlMix
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"It's nice to be able to tell 207 people, 'This is your restaurant too. Promote it! Bring your parties here!' People feel so proud to be owners."
Yuka Loroi
Founder, Cassava
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"I've always found benefit from having angel investors, so why not have thousands of them?"
Amjad Masad
Founder Replit
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"It's nice to be able to tell 207 people, 'This is your restaurant too. Promote it! Bring your parties here!' People feel so proud to be owners."
Yuka Loroi
Founder Cassava
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"I hate convincing someone who doesn't believe what I'm building is valuable, when I have 100,000 people who are buying my products to let me know that it's valuable."
Kim Lewis
Founder CurlMix
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"We wanted to give ownership to the community, so that when we’re successful, they’re successful."
Immad Akhund
Founder Mercury
What VCs and angels say
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"This is going to become the new normal for a majority of great startups."
Alexis Ohanian
Founder Seven Seven Six
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"My favorite co-investor is the community. Startups that align incentives with customers, fans, and stakeholders have an inherent advantage."
Talia Goldberg
Partner Bessemer Ventures
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"Treat your community like investors. Every community-driven startup should share ownership with their most valuable members."
Justin Kan
General Partner Goat Capital
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"The next generation of founders will raise community rounds to access a broader & more diverse set of investors who can add value alongside traditional VCs."
Gale Wilkinson
Managing Partner Vitalize Venture Capital
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"Turning users into owners is the ultimate way to create alignment. We look forward to investing alongside users in the next generation of world-changing brands."
Gautam Gupta
General Partner TCV
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"If users love a product so much that they invest in it, I consider it a positive signal. I support founders who offer ownership to their community."
Andrew Chen
General Partner a16z
More than just a capitalraise
Now you have hundreds of angel investors who will go to bat for you.
Just ask, and theymight...
"In year 1, we put up merchandise sales of almost $750,000. Our community owners want all of our merch so that they can go out and say, This is something I'm a part of."
Wes Burdine
Co-founder, Minnesota Womens Soccer
Raised $1,000,000 from 3,081 investors
"From our investors, we hired 5 new full-time employees, which is about 8% of our workforce. We also hired 92 teachers, which is about 25% of that team."
Charles Harrison
COO, Synthesis
Raised $2,987,382 from 1,125 investors
"Name a company that you've heard of, and they probably have users there using Immersed because of our Community Round investors."
Renji Bijoy
CEO, Immersed
Raised $9,208,231 from 3,318 investors
"Over 10% of Mercury's 2,453 investors applied for an account after investing, and many are now customers."
Lucia Qian
Head of BizOps, Mercury
Raised $4,914,037 from 2,453 investors
"We raised a $500,000 seed round led by a lead investor who saw our Wefunder round as a positive signal—a sign that I was scrappy and capable of raising from both the community and traditional angels."
Vanessa Otero
Founder, Ad Fontes Media
Raised $595,877 from 896 investors
"In year 1, we put up merchandise sales of almost $750,000. Our community owners want all of our merch so that they can go out and say, This is something I'm a part of."
Wes Burdine Co-founder, Minnesota Womens Soccer
Raised $1,000,000 from 3,081 investors
"From our investors, we hired 5 new full-time employees, which is about 8% of our workforce. We also hired 92 teachers, which is about 25% of that team."
Charles Harrison COO, Synthesis
Raised $2,987,382 from 1,125 investors
"Name a company that you've heard of, and they probably have users there using Immersed because of our Community Round investors."
Renji Bijoy CEO, Immersed
Raised $9,208,231 from 3,318 investors
"Over 10% of Mercury's 2,453 investors applied for an account after investing, and many are now customers."
Lucia Qian Head of BizOps, Mercury
Raised $4,914,037 from 2,453 investors
"We raised a $500,000 seed round led by a lead investor who saw our Wefunder round as a positive signal—a sign that I was scrappy and capable of raising from both the community and traditional angels."
Vanessa Otero Founder, Ad Fontes Media
Raised $595,877 from 896 investors
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Give early access to your friends, supporters, andangels.
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Fill up your round by giving everyoneaccess.
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Get Funds
Receive a single wire, or draw down intranches.
Create Pitch
A single link and source of truth for yourraise.
1
Legal Setup
We will help you every step of theway.
3
Get Funds
Receive a single wire, or draw down intranches.
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Private Launch
Give early access to your friends, supporters, andangels.
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Public Launch
Fill up your round by giving everyoneaccess.
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Create your pitch and invite customers to invest in the sameday.
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We'll support you every step of theway
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We'll file your paperwork with the SEC so you can get your fundsASAP.
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Get Funds · 1 day
Receive a single wire, or draw down intranches.
Set Up & Launch · 1 day
Create your pitch and invite customers to invest in the sameday.
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SEC Filing · 3 weeks
We'll file your paperwork with the SEC so you can get your fundsASAP.
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2
Legal Setup · 2 weeks
We'll support you every step of theway
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Get Funds · 1 day
Receive a single wire, or draw down intranches.
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Red Bay Coffee
Beautiful coffee to the people
213 investors invested $160,269
Explore Coffee Shops
A historic Brooklyn restaurant reborn
335 investors invested $484,091
Explore Restaurants
Legion M
Fan-owned Hollywood movie production company
34,493 investors invested $11,565,679
Explore Films
The Smart Tire Company
Reinventing tires w/NASA for $1T electric, autonomous and space industries
1,062 investors invested $792,883
Explore Tech
Ruth Health
Centralized care hub for pregancy & postpartum
52 investors invested $72,551
Explore Healthcare
KYLE
American rapper with 2 billion streams and counting
307 investors invested $143,377
Explore Music
MobCraft Beer
Turning ideas into beer
488 investors invested $844,893
Explore Breweries
Atom Limbs
Revolutionary prosthetics to end physical disability
6,671 investors invested $7,267,006
Explore Biotech
One-stop shop for the nonbinary generation
87 investors invested $56,535
Explore Ecommerce
Blue Earth Compost
Changing how people think about food waste
308 investors invested $378,750
Trace Femcare
First farm-to-body tampon with hemp fiber
119 investors invested $346,140
Explore Sustainability
Crafter
Bringing makers together through the art of crafting
131 investors invested $362,922
Explore Education
Black Sands Entertainment
The most popular independent black comic book publisher in the nation
1,696 investors invested $829,290
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Doughp
America's favorite mission-driven cookie dough
531 investors invested $608,273
Explore Female Founders
Here
Earn passive income by investing in vacation rentals like stocks
3,678 investors invested $3,488,885
Explore VC-backed
Airthium
A breakthrough engine to replace fossil fuels
619 investors invested $780,988
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1,220 investors invested $866,493
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157 investors invested $124,000
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We consolidate hundreds of investors into a single line on your cap table.
Set your own terms
Take control of your raise using the VC industry-standard tools and terms.
We do all the grunt work
You galvanize your community. We handle everything else you need.
We charge a flat fee of 7.9% of funds successfully raised and an annual fee of 0.5%, capped at $1,000 each year for funds successfully raised. Pay nothing until you successfully raise money.
Built by founders, forfounders
We're fellow founders. We've got yourback.
We petitioned Congress to make Community Rounds legal in 2012...
...and got invited to watch President Obama make it real in the Jobs Act!
We're the first & largest
We've delivered the most money to founders via Community Rounds out of anycompetitor.
We created Community Rounds
We petitioned Congress to legalize Community Rounds in 2012. Before that, only the wealthy were allowed to invest in pre-IPOcompanies.
We're a Public Benefit Corporation
We believe in the scrappy and hungry who put it all on the line to move the world in a better direction. Win or fail, we allbenefit.
We eat our own dog food
We've only raised money through community rounds. Since our founding, over 6,700 investors have invested$20M.
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Turn hundreds of supporters into angel investors on your own terms.
In <2 minutes, we can tell you if it's a good fit!
