# Hello 2026 | Wefunder

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- Published at: 2026-01-03 18:59:40 UTC
- Updated at: 2026-06-23 20:13:49 UTC

## Author
Nick Tommarello

## Subject
Wefunder

## Content
Dear Investors,It’s been a while since my last update. Sometimes founders go quiet because a startup is struggling and they’re busy bailing water out of a sinking ship. In this case, it’s the opposite: I'm more excited about Wefunder’s prospects than any time in years. I’ve been fully in execution mode, but with the new year, I wanted to pop my head up and share an update with investors.MetricsOur year end financials are not finalized, but we'll have our second profitable year in a row and ~$16M revenue. We've also now funded thousands of founders with over $1 billion, which is a milestone we're proud of.Wefunder’s financial results in 2025 will be roughly flat year over year, with the same lean team of 35. The bad news: we did not grow revenue. The good news: I am very excited about 2026.2026 StrategyPut bluntly, Wefunder as it exists today is operating like a lifestyle business: profitable, but not growing. My main goal in 2026 is to restore growth.Our plan to do this is to expand outside of Regulation Crowdfunding.I believe our industry has been focused on a local minimum. There are paths we can take in the current industry to grow that some of our competitors have chosen, but they are not ones that I believe will lead to a transformative business.One approach relies on reselling secondaries to investors at significant markups relative to what’s available on other platforms. Another focuses on helping larger companies - often those unable to raise from professional investors - use heavy paid advertising to attract retail capital.We could follow similar strategies and likely double or triple the business, but I believe that path would ultimately limit Wefunder’s upside.Instead, we're going to take a swing at climbing a much larger mountain. As Wefunder has almost 10,000 investors, including our competitors, I'm going to be a bit light on details for now. But I will write a longer post in April.Regulatory OutlookThere's still plenty we can do to grow within the rules as they exist today. That said, I believe the odds are very high that we will see meaningful regulatory improvement in the next two years that significantly accelerates our growth.I’ve met with three SEC commissioners, along with a number of SEC staffers and Congressional staff. Capital formation reform is officially on the SEC’s agenda for 2026, and it’s likely to include changes to Reg CF and Reg D that are favorable.The House has also already passed multiple bipartisan bills (some by unanimous consent) that are likely to get movement in the Senate in 2026.This is why we’ve held off on launching a fund structure for unaccredited investors. We think better structures are coming soon, and it makes sense to wait.Finally, a reminder: the JOBS Act is what created our industry. Whenever Congress starts worrying about jobs again, support for capital formation reform increases. I’m convinced AI is going to drive meaningful job losses in the near future, which will only strengthen the political tailwinds behind these changes.AI & Execution SpeedWefunder isn’t an AI startup. But by another definition, every company will be.Only in the last two months has there been a real inflection point in AI’s ability to increase software engineering productivity by 10× or more. I know this firsthand.I haven’t coded meaningfully for Wefunder in over four years - good CEOs aren’t supposed to code, or so I’m told. But I didn’t feel right leading a technology company without personally truly understanding, at a deep level, the biggest change since the personal computer.My cofounder and I set up our laptops with five separate development environments, each paired with an AI coding agent. (For the engineers: Opus 4.5, Gemini Pro, and Codex 5.2 are my go-tos. I use both Claude Code and Cursor.)In the last 6 weeks, I shipped ~75,000 lines of production code (more than twice what I shipped during YC!). Projects that once took a team three months can now take a single person under a week.Expect a lot of visible changes to Wefunder in 2026 and much faster iteration than we’ve ever had before. It feels like we’ve been handed alien technology... and we’re just starting to understand what it can do.And besides AI helping Wefunder iterate more quickly, we also expect this will help our mission: empower more founders to get their ideas off their ground. We're also super excited by that.