We're building PocketFund because the founders we grew up around — first-generation, second-city, first-time — were shipping world-class products but stuck emailing investor templates. We think the connective tissue between founders and capital should be a product, not a LinkedIn DM.
If a decision is good for founders and mildly inconvenient for us, we pick founders every time.
We would rather show an investor 5 great matches than 500 mediocre ones. Compounding ruthlessness on quality.
Every investor on PocketFund is verified. No scraped profiles, no pretend check sizes.
A pre-seed idea doesn't need a Series B investor. We tell the truth about stage fit.
Our matching signals are documented. Our pricing is one page. No mystery.
Great ideas are born in Pune, Nairobi, Jakarta and Berlin. We route capital to all of them.
PocketFund is in its first year. The team is small — operators who've been on both sides of fundraising and want to compress the gap between a founder having an idea and the right investor backing it. The product is live; we're now onboarding our first cohort of founders and investors.
Every person on the PocketFund team has either raised a round, written a check, or both.