Let your community invest
Raise $50K to $5M+ from hundreds of customers, fans, and friends—all in one line on your cap table.
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Read the case study2,453 fans
invested $4,914,037
alongside a16z & Coatue
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Read the case study1,440 members
invested $4,999,989
alongside a16z
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Read the case study6,948 customers
invested $4,537,310
alongside Backstage Capital
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Read the case study2,589 fans
invested $5,240,140
alongside Coatue & a16z
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Read the case study1,125 fans
invested $2,987,382
alongside FJ Labs
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6,688 fans
invested $7,809,219
alongside a16z
We’ve raised $820M for community-led founders
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"My favorite co-investor is the community. Startups that align incentives with customers, fans, and stakeholders have an inherent advantage."
Talia Goldberg
Partner, Bessemer Ventures
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"Treat your community like investors. Every community-driven startup should share ownership with their most valuable members."
Justin Kan
General Partner, Goat Capital
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"We wanted to give ownership to the community, so that when we’re successful, they’re successful."
Immad Akhund
Founder, Mercury
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"I hate convincing someone who doesn't believe what I'm building is valuable, when I have 100,000 people who are buying my products to let me know that it's valuable."
Kim Lewis
Founder, CurlMix
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"If users love a product so much that they invest in it, I consider it a positive signal. I support founders who offer ownership to their community."
Andrew Chen
General Partner, a16z
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"It's nice to be able to tell 207 people, 'This is your restaurant too. Promote it! Bring your parties here!' People feel so proud to be owners."
Yuka loroi
Founder, Cassava
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"This is going to become the new normal for a majority of great startups."
Alexis Ohanian
Founder, Seven Seven Six
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"Turning users into owners is the ultimate way to create alignment. We look forward to investing alongside users in the next generation of world-changing brands."
Gautam Gupta
General Partner, TCV
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"I've always found benefit from having angel investors, so why not have thousands of them?"
Amjad Masad
Founder, Replit
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"The next generation of founders will raise community rounds to access a broader & more diverse set of investors who can add value alongside traditional VCs."
Gale Wilkinson
Managing Partner, Vitalize Venture Capital
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"I've always found benefit from having angel investors, so why not have thousands of them?"
Amjad Masad
Founder, Replit
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"It's nice to be able to tell 207 people, 'This is your restaurant too. Promote it! Bring your parties here!' People feel so proud to be owners."
Yuka loroi
Founder, Cassava
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"I hate convincing someone who doesn't believe what I'm building is valuable, when I have 100,000 people who are buying my products to let me know that it's valuable."
Kim Lewis
Founder, CurlMix
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"We wanted to give ownership to the community, so that when we’re successful, they’re successful."
Immad Akhund
Founder, Mercury
More than just a capital raise
Now you have hundreds of angel investors who will go to bat for you.
Just ask, and they might...
"In year 1, we put up merchandise sales of almost $750,000. Our community owners want all of our merch so that they can go out and say, This is something I'm a part of."
"From our investors, we hired 5 new full-time employees, which is about 8% of our workforce. We also hired 92 teachers, which is about 25% of that team."
"Name a company that you've heard of, and they probably have users there using Immersed because of our Community Round investors."
"Over 10% of Mercury's 2,453 investors applied for an account after investing, and many are now customers."
"We raised a $500,000 seed round led by a lead investor who saw our Wefunder round as a positive signal—a sign that I was scrappy and capable of raising from both the community and traditional angels."
"In year 1, we put up merchandise sales of almost $750,000. Our community owners want all of our merch so that they can go out and say, This is something I'm a part of."
Wes Burdine Co-founder, Minnesota Womens Soccer
Raised $1,000,000 from 3,081 investors
"From our investors, we hired 5 new full-time employees, which is about 8% of our workforce. We also hired 92 teachers, which is about 25% of that team."
Charles Harrison COO, Synthesis
Raised $2,987,382 from 1,125 investors
"Name a company that you've heard of, and they probably have users there using Immersed because of our Community Round investors."
Renji Bijoy CEO, Immersed
Raised $9,208,231 from 3,318 investors
"Over 10% of Mercury's 2,453 investors applied for an account after investing, and many are now customers."
Lucia Qian Head of BizOps, Mercury
Raised $4,914,037 from 2,453 investors
"We raised a $500,000 seed round led by a lead investor who saw our Wefunder round as a positive signal—a sign that I was scrappy and capable of raising from both the community and traditional angels."
Vanessa Otero Founder, Ad Fontes Media
Raised $595,877 from 896 investors
Take total control of your raise
Set your own valuation, terms, and narrative on your campaign page. Our team will support you with anything ranging from fundraising strategy to legal.
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From tomorrow’s unicorns to local coffee shops
Put your community on your cap table, no matter what your industry, stage, or goals.
Browse by industry
Reinventing tires w/NASA for $1T electric, autonomous and space industries
1,062 investors invested $792,883
Browse by founder
The most popular independent black comic book publisher in the nation
1,696 investors invested $829,290
Browse by backers
Earn passive income by investing in vacation rentals like stocks
3,678 investors invested $3,488,885
Browse by stage
Advancing financial security through investment homeownership
574 investors invested $383,219
Reinventing tires w/NASA for $1T electric, autonomous and space industries
1,062 investors invested $792,883
The most popular independent black comic book publisher in the nation
1,696 investors invested $829,290
Earn passive income by investing in vacation rentals like stocks
3,678 investors invested $3,488,885
Advancing financial security through investment homeownership
574 investors invested $383,219
The most founder-friendly platform
Designed so you can focus on your community, and we can handle the rest.
One line on your cap table
We consolidate hundreds of investors into a single line on your cap table.
Set your own terms
Take control of your raise using the VC industry-standard tools and terms.
We do all the grunt work
You galvanize your community. We handle everything else you need.
We charge a flat fee of 7.9% of funds successfully raised and an annual fee of 0.5%, capped at $1,000 each year for funds successfully raised. Pay nothing until you successfully raise money.
Built by founders, for founders
We're fellow founders. We've got your back.
We petitioned Congress to make Community Rounds legal in 2012...
...and got invited to watch President Obama make it real in the Jobs Act!
We're the first & largest
We've delivered the most money to founders via Community Rounds out of any competitor.
We created Community Rounds
We petitioned Congress to legalize Community Rounds in 2012. Before that, only the wealthy were allowed to invest in pre-IPO companies.
We're a Public Benefit Corporation
We believe in the scrappy and hungry who put it all on the line to move the world in a better direction. Win or fail, we all benefit.
We eat our own dog food
We've only raised money through community rounds. Since our founding, over 6,700 investors have invested $20M.
Ready to let your community invest?
Turn hundreds of supporters into angel investors on your own terms.
In <2 minutes, we can tell you if it's a good fit!