Let your community invest
Let your
community invest
Community Rounds allow your customers and fans to invest alongside the VCs. Build an army eager to help grow your startup.
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Community Rounds allow your customers and fans to invest alongside the VCs. Build an army eager to help grow your startup.
What on earth is a
Community Round?
A Community Round is when a startup lets thousands of their customers, users and fans invest alongside VCs and angel investors.
3000+
founders funded
200K+
jobs created
1.3M+
investors
$1.4B+
raised
Raised a Community Round
Current valuation
$1.6 Billion
Investors include
a16v, Coatue, CRV
Current valuation
~$255 Million
Investors include
a16v, Marc Randolph
Roam
Current valuation
~$200 Million
Investors include
Lux Capital, Elad Gil
Current valuation
$979 Million
Investors include
a16v, Coatue, Not Boring
Current valuation
$4.6 Billion
Investors include
Khosla Ventures, Coatue, YC
Partnered with YC
35+ YC companies
Have raised on Wefunder
Wefunder is itself a YC alum
Current valuation
~$255 Million
Investors include
a16v, Marc Randolph
Roam
Current valuation
~$200 Million
Investors include
Lux Capital, Elad Gil
What the VCs & Angels Say
"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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The best angel investors invest to have an
impact. Sure, they want to earn a return.
But, unlike investing in a public company
like Apple, your dollar can actually help
launch a business.
What on earth is a Community Round?
A Community Round is when a startup lets thousands of their customers, users and fans invest alongside VCs and angel investors.
$1.4B+
raised
"Treat your community like investors. Every community-driven startup should share ownership with their most valuable members."
Justin Kan
General Partner Goat Capital
"The best startups make a product that users love so much they want to own part of the company themselves. This style of fundraising is going to become the norm for lots of amazing companies."
Max Altman
Partner Apollo Projects
"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
Partner Andreessen Horowitz
"This is going to become the new normal for a majority of great startups."
Alexis Ohanian
Founder Seven Seven Six
"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
3000+
Founders funded
1.3M+
Investors
$1.4B+
Raised
200K+
Jobs created
Current valuation
$1.6 Billion
Investors include a16v, Coatue, CRV
Current valuation
~$979 Million
Investors include
a16v, Coatue
Current valuation
~$4.6 Billion
Investors include
Khosla Ventures, YC
Partnered with YC
35+ YC companies
Have raised on Wefunder
Wefunder is itself a YC alum
Current valuation
~$255 Million
Investors include
a16v + other angels
Roam
Current valuation
~$200 Million
Investors include
Lux Capital, Elad Gil
What the
VCs & Angels say
"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
"Treat your community like investors. Every community-driven startup should share ownership with their most valuable members."
Justin Kan
General Partner Goat Capital
"The best startups make a product that users love so much they want to own part of the company themselves. This style of fundraising is going to become the norm for lots of amazing companies."
Max Altman
Partner Apollo Projects
"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
Partner Andreessen Horowitz
"This is going to become the new normal for a majority of great startups."
Alexis Ohanian
Founder Seven Seven Six
"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