Funden™ Assisted Fundraising - A managed fundraising platform for busy founders

Hey Product Hunt, Funden co-founders Daniel and Steve here. For the past two years, we’ve been building a world-class platform that connects founders and investors. As of today, over 2,500 founders are using Funden tools to connect to our global network of 530+ investors. Today, we’re excited to publicly launch our managed fundraising offering: Assisted Fundraising. Assisted Fundraising Funden's Assisted Fundraising program is built for founders who don't have the time to manage every aspect of a fundraise. Let the Funden team make and implement a custom fundraising plan for your company that includes investment analysis, pitch deck review, strategy sessions, storytelling, intelligent investor selection, warm intros to our partner network, progress management, and more. Focus on growth, leave fundraising to us. Hands-on Strategic Guidance Our team of ex-VCs and operators will review all of your investment collateral and make sure you are ready to fundraise. We’ll provide in-depth suggestions and feedback to make your pitch resonate with your target investor. Suggested Investor List Our global network of 500+ VCs, angel networks, family funds, and syndicates operate in every region, stage, and vertical. Save your time and let us do the research and build a suggested investor list for your startup. Warm intros to our partner funds This is what makes us different. Rather than sending cold emails, let us distribute your deal to our investment partners and warm intro you wherever possible. There’s no quicker way to generate results and receive feedback than with our network. Your dedicated fundraising partner Have the experts in your corner. We can help with pitch practice, financial documentation, valuation docs, negotiating term sheets, and more. Client testimonials “Funden was critical to our round. Extremely worth it. They are also able to adapt as your round grows and changes. Highly, highly, recommend.” - Ted Nyman, Founder at Cased “We got our first meeting booked with a top gaming VC within a few days. Steve and his team were able to provide us with a great stream of introductions without compromising on quality.” - Robert Towles, Founder at INK Games “An invaluable part of our fundraising process. The insightful and well-thought-out feedback on our pitch deck was frankly jaw-dropping. We are miles ahead thanks to the Funden team.” - Dustin Coupal, Founder at 54e Are you an investor? Join 500+ global VC firms, angel networks, and syndicates receiving high-quality, curated deal flow from Funden’s portfolio of founders. Each potential connection is made by hand. You provide us with your investment thesis, parameters, and criteria and we’ll notify you when we have a match. Apply now at Funden. Ready to raise your next round? Are you raising money for your startup (or just about to) and think you’d be a good fit for Assisted Fundraising? Apply via this form to work with Funden and learn more about our Assisted Fundraising plans. Thanks so much, Product Hunt, we’re excited to start working with you, Daniel & Steve

Great concept. Maybe I'll git a go when we are ready to fundraise.

Great offering! We are proud to be your partners!

This is actually soo helpful, congratulations on the launch!

Great product @daniel_rongo congratulations on the launch !

@daniel_rongo Amazing Product! Congrats on the launch 👍

Congrats on the launch Daniel! Do you plan to start a company blog? I am sure after consulting for numerous startups the blog will be a great hit.

Jumping in as I’m an investor and I’ve been getting deal flow from Funden for the past year or so. Hands down the best matches from any “deal flow service” out there. If you’re an investor, sign up for sure. Thanks guys.

This is soo much better than just connecting with random VCs in LinkedIn begging for a quick intro meeting. I'm very glad there is a solution now!

Raising money for a startup is like birthing a pineapple, so congrats on the launch @daniel_rongo and team. First time founders need guidance. Repeat founders need intros. Funden does both and if the quality on the former is good and the networking enabled by the latter is too, then shazam-- that's literally hundreds of hours of founder time and tears that can be saved for every startup looking to access capital. There are plenty of tools and tips for founders on how to run a VC process and there are lots of people who will make a warm intro to a VC if they think your startup has potential, but there's no easy bridge between the two, so I hope that's what Funden becomes. Over the past ten years I've raised or help raise as co-founder VC money for Uphold, Airtm, Cadoo, and Slyk. Here are the biggest pain points that I hope Funden solves: 1. Efficiency-- it's been said that building a startup is like flying an airplane while constructing the essential pieces that keep it aloft. Add a long and time-sucking fund-raising process to that and many startups hit the ground hard before they hit the VC jackpot. I hope funden cuts the outbound outreach way down and allows founders to run a tight process that interrupts building as little as possible. 2. Disappointment-- Lots of founders launch on Product Hunt or emerge from an accelerator and expect a crowd of investors to start throwing fistfuls of cash at them. Because this happens sometimes (never happened to me in my entire startup career, but I've heard it happens), there's the hope that it might happen. I hope Funden can provide cold, hard, even harsh feedback as soon as possible so that founders can manage their own and their teams' expectations. My view is that founders should build community around their product idea way before they build the product, and that if they do they will be well-positioned to impress VCs with their traction and knowledge of the problem they purport to solve. VCs want to derisk their decisions and a solid community of believers, collaborators, early adopters, and users is the best way to do that. 3. Valuation-- lots of promising startups get low-balled because they don't have a birds-eye view of the funding landscape. Techcrunch, Pitchbook, and others provide very complete data, but founders are often too busy building, growing, trying to level up, etc. to dig in. Would be great if Funden did that work for founders and provided a pessimistic, realistic, and optimistic scenario for what founders can expect w/r/t valuations and terms. Biggest questions I have about the product (congrats on hitting #1 on PH) are: 1. VCs spend a long time developing their deal flow and Funden is opening up dealflow to all VCs who join-- is there a sense that the most highly-regarded VCs won't join the platform? I personally think cash is a commodity and that founder energy and enthusiasm, grit and moxie are the truly valuable aspects of building startups, but curious about how Funden is thinking about VC deal flow. 2. Like all two-sided marketplaces, Funden is going to charge to connect, hoping to create a flywheel and NFX from founders and VCs joining the platform, adding value, and justifying the Funden rake. Can i suggest that you share the upside in the platform with everyone who joins via a Coin-powered community. If I bring ten founders and ten VCs who all end up paying, I should receive a referral reward, no? And if I want to collaborate in some deeper way, there should be some sort of easy coin-gated community to screen serious collaborators from lookie-loos. Without some sort of alignment of incentives-- play-to-earn/learn/own-- then there's a risk that that the rake friction slows the flywheel and NFX are never unlocked. I'm not talking about launching an onchain token, but rather something like a Slack that makes it easy to collaborate with everyone in the world, rather than just teammates. Congrats and let me know how I can get in touch to collaborate and share more ideas. The world needs more entrepreneurs, more founders, more startups, more Musks, and connecting great founders with great capital allocators is an essential part of that. Let's all level up together!