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21 Resources for Funding Your Startup

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Funding your startup is challenging - I want to make it easier.
A couple of months ago, I tweeted this thread on fundraising:
FOUNDERS
Fundraising is hard, let's make it a little easier
Here are 21 resources for funding your company
- Investor databases
- Non-dilutive funding
- Cold outreach guidelines
- Pitch deck help
Take a look 👇— Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) June 8, 2022
It went bonkers, with 150,000 people viewing it 🤯
The problem? It's difficult to find and bookmark threads on Twitter. So here we are, with a blog post aggregating all of the resources.
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Angel Directory by First Round Capital
This resource lets you search by:
Name
Location
Support areas
Check size
Company stages
Categories
Signal by nfx
This funding resource includes :
Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, Series B
Investors by location
Angels, scouts, and solo-capitalists
80 different categories
600 US Women Angel Investors by Lolita Taub
This funding resource includes:
Name and organization
Description and job title
Investment stage
Twitter profile
Number of investments + exits
The No-Warm-Intro-Required Investor List by Yuliya Bel
This funding resource includes:
Airtable database
300 investors
No contact info included (Find emails with https://hunter.io or Twitter DM)
OpenVC by Steph Nass
This funding resource includes:
Target countries
Check size
Funding stage
Funding requirements
Active Investors by Hustle Fund
OK, real talk--who is ACTUALLY actively writing new checks to founders these days? Respond below with:
1. Name of fund
2. Size of check
3. Stage you invest
4. How founders can engage.
In this environment of fear, founders could benefit from this roll call. GO.— Hustle Fund - APPLY for Angel Squad 8! 💛 (@HustleFundVC) May 26, 2022
The Gen Z VC Community by Meagan Loyst
Gen Z VC is a global collective of 14,000+ Gen Z:
VCs
Founders
Angel investors
Startup enthusiasts
Aspiring VCs
The Active Investor List by Trace Cohen
This funding resource includes:
400 investors
Name, email, check size, area of focus
This funding resource includes:
Name
Sectors
LinkedIn
Website
Crunchbase
The Non-Dilutive Funding Toolkit by Alex Macdonald
This funding resource includes info on:
Grants
Credit cards
R & D tax credits
Revenue-based financing
Term loans & credit facilities
Commonapp.VC by Confluence.VC
Created by:
Clay Norris ( @ClayNorris10 )
Tyler Dean ( @Tylerdeanthinks )
Cole Mora ( @colejmora )
They help your startup get seen by a community of investors.
1,000+ Woman VCs by Christoph Janz
A list of investors worth following on Twitter
A Crowdsourced List of Fundraising Resources
The replies to the tweet below include:
Books
Blogs
Communities
People to follow
What're the best resources for founders on how to raise venture capital?
Books, blog posts, podcasts, communities - anything that'd be helpful— Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) February 7, 2022
The Startup-Investor Matching Tool by Lolita Taub
3.7K+ intros made between startups and investors since May 2020
Post intros, they've heard of 51 checks written, totaling $7 Million
Alternative Funding Options Crowdsourced by Me 😉
A few of the top replies to the tweet below:
What are the alternative funding options for founders outside of raising venture capital?— Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) April 18, 2022
How to Get Funding For Your Startup That’s *Not* Venture Capital by Miki Reynolds and Gefen Skolnick
This Medium article includes a ton of resources for funding your startup including:
Crowdfunding
Angel Investors
Grants
Small Bank Loans
Pitch Competitions
And more!
For Better Cold Emails to Raise Funding
This thread below by Sahil Bloom for cold outreach includes details on:
High-conversion subject line
Personalized opener
Concise pitch
Social proof
Simple closing CTA
The formula for an effective cold startup pitch email:— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) February 11, 2022
A Cold Email Format from Gale Wilkinson
Use this cold email format with investors!
🤗unique connection (why the investor is a fit)
💡startup's value prop
📈traction (revenue, users, trials, growth %s, etc)
💸raise info (total amount/structure, $ committed, price if you know it)
💻link to deck
✨ask for 15 min call!— Gale Wilkinson @Vitalize (@galeforceVC) April 17, 2021
How to Raise a Seed Round by Elizabeth Yin
This funding resource includes:
Strategy
Preparation
Meeting with and closing investors
Pitch Deck Hunt by Maximilian Fleitmann
This funding resource includes decks from:
Shopify
AirBnb
Uber
Coinbase
And many more!
Inspiration from Mac Conwell
Mac, the Managing Partner at Rarebreed Ventures, took 1,128 meetings to raise the first $3M for his fund.
In his Medium article, he shares just how he did it.
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