Here's exactly what happens from the moment a founder writes an idea card to the moment a round closes.
Pick founder or investor. Verify identity, email, and LinkedIn in under 90 seconds.
Founders write an idea card. Investors define thesis, stage, sector, check size, exclusions.
18 signals, updated continuously. You see the top 20 matches and why each one fits.
Investors pocket and open chat. Founders share data rooms. Close directly in-app.
Not a ranking. A match score. Here's what goes into it.
Does the investor write checks at your stage? Pre-seed, seed, A, B, growth.
Your ask vs. investor's typical check range. Hard filter.
Do they invest in your industry? FinTech, ClimateTech, AI, etc.
HQ, market, and regulated-region preferences.
B2B SaaS, D2C, marketplace, deep-tech, hardware.
Repeat founder, domain experience, technical co-founder presence.
Revenue, growth rate, retention, user count — bucketed.
Who else likely invests alongside this investor? We route signal.
Conflicts, regulated segments, sin categories — strictly excluded.
Takes ~12 minutes. 280 words + deck.
Top 20 investors routed within 2 hours.
Median 6 replies, 2–3 intro calls.
DD, term sheet, commitments tracked in-app.
5–15 new ideas/day — none below 70% thesis fit.
Shortlist with private tags and stage flags.
One-click access. Watermarked. Audit-logged.
E-sign term sheet. Portfolio view auto-updates.
The day you create an account, the Library, Forum, Founder guides, Investor playbooks, document Skeletons, and interactive workbooks open up. They're gated for non-members so the signal stays high.
9 books for founders · 9 for investors. YouTube channels, podcasts, newsletters — every entry has a one-line summary, Amazon link, and Google Books search.
Battle-tested copy-paste templates for the docs founders ship: pitch deck, one-pager, PRD, MVP scope, financial model, cap table, investor update, customer interview, co-founder agreement.
Apply Zero to One and Sarthak Ahuja's Daily Coffee with Startup Fundraising to your own startup. 40 fillable exercises that auto-save locally.
Deep, opinionated walkthroughs: writing the one-pager, the 10-slide deck, the data room, term sheets, co-founder agreements, negotiating the close, bridging to Series A, investor Q&A scripts.
For partners, principals, angels, and syndicate leads: written thesis, the 30-min first meeting, parallelised diligence, cheque sizing, term-sheet anatomy, SPV ops, allocation discipline, exits.
Channels for fundraising, term sheets, diligence, product, hiring, show-and-tell. Real founders and investors swapping notes, not LinkedIn-grade posturing.
Weekly posts from the team — fundraising playbooks, market signals, product updates, and founder stories. Q1 funding pulse, matching-engine teardowns, real-deal walkthroughs.
Twice-weekly product updates. Tagged New / Improved / Fixed. See exactly what shipped and when — sub-accounts, bulk CMS, theme system, discussion bidding.
Every page you view and key click is captured locally so you can pick up exactly where you left off. View it from your account profile, clear it any time.
Every resource above is shaped by what we keep seeing in real founder ↔ investor discussions on the platform. Here's the cleanest way to use them.
Open the pitch-deck, one-pager, and financial model skeletons — they're the structures investors expect. Save a week of formatting.
Run the Coffee Fundraising workbook end-to-end. The exercises surface every gap an investor will probe — valuation logic, ESOP top-ups, walkaway scenarios.
The 10-slide deck and 14-day negotiation guides include real artefacts from rounds that closed on PocketFund.
The monthly update skeleton is the one-hour-a-month discipline that keeps your future Series A lead warm. Investors who get monthly updates write 3× more follow-on cheques.
Stuck on a term-sheet clause or a hiring decision? Drop into the forum. The Term Sheets and Diligence channels alone get a few founder-to-investor exchanges every day.
The written-thesis playbook is the 1-pager every fund should publish. It filters bad-fit deals out of your inbox before they arrive.
The parallelised 14-day diligence playbook covers founder refs, customer refs, market, finance, technical, and legal — concurrently, not sequentially.
The cheque-sizing playbook models reserves across a 25-portfolio fund. The allocation discipline playbook stops drift under FOMO.
The term-sheet anatomy for leads is what to ask for, what to leave out, and how to defend each clause — written for partners, not founders.
The post-close playbook shows what 240 funded founders actually wanted from their investors — hiring intros (74%), Series-A relationship-building (61%), sounding-board on hard people decisions (58%).
Free to launch your idea. We charge a 0.5% success fee only when a round closes, capped at $10k. See pricing.
The forum, library, skeletons, workbooks, founder guides, investor playbooks, blog, and changelog all sit behind login. Two reasons. First, a verified-member-only forum stays high-signal — founders get answers from real, accountable investors instead of LinkedIn drive-by takes. Second, our skeletons and workbooks include real artefacts from rounds that closed on the platform; the founders who shared them did so on the understanding that they're not public Google-able assets. Sign-up is free for both founders and investors.
Once you're logged in we capture page views and key clicks (NDA signs, bids placed, messages sent, profile saves, resource clicks) — locally, in your browser. You can see the full feed on your account profile and clear it any time. Nothing is uploaded; the feed exists so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
Every investor goes through a verification — accreditation docs, LinkedIn, professional references, and (for funds) AUM + prior deal proofs.
You do. Ideas are yours. Visibility is fully under your control — public, matched-only, or private link.
No. We're a matching and workflow platform. Transactions happen directly between founders and investors — or via partner broker-dealers for regulated offerings.
Not today. Our only incentive is matching the right founder with the right investor.