Invest with ProFounder
$273.5k ($10,000)
Typical Investments
10
Expected Deals/Year
95
Unique LPs have invested
Note from ProFounder
Who We are
ProFounder is a collective of seasoned entrepreneurs who are actively founding companies. Its a club that the best founders find attractive and want to belong to.
Its an impressive group that together have raised billions of dollars, recruited thousands of people, established strong company cultures, shipped hundreds of awesome products and created significant returns for our investors.
Our group provides a confidential, safe and constructive forum for Founders to iterate and validate startup concepts, team up with co-founders and critical early hires, and gain insights about fast growing markets and trends. Additionally, it forms a peer group that supports founders through the all consuming process of running their startup.
When an entrepreneur joins ProFounder, they make a pledge to reserve an allocation for the ProFounder Fund in their next round of funding. This Syndicate fulfills this pre-agreed allocation.
A subset, ProFounder Partners also intend to source and lead investments. Each Partner focuses on their domain and their first order network to source investments, with the goal of 1-2 investments per year.
Why join our Syndicate?
Our goal is to only syndicate ‘high conviction’ deals - where we really know and understand the founding team, and have conviction on the market opportunity.
Unique model: The syndicate fulfils the allocation that experienced entrepreneurs reserve for ProFounder when they join the group. We typically invest alongside top seed and venture investors.
Further, since each Partner only expects to do 1-2 deals per year, they can be extremely selective.
Great entrepreneurs, vetted thoroughly: The startups we syndicate are either founded by ProFounder members, or by their first order connections. ProFounder Partners are deeply networked in their domains, are among the first people that entrepreneurs call, and understand what the community thinks of the entrepreneur. We typically have deep knowledge of the entrepreneur and founding team.
Market validation: ProFounder Partners have deep domain expertise as well as network of experts and customers to validate the market.
Active involvement and participation: Our deals are supported by the collective who provide strategic, operational, and tactical advice & support throughout the life of the investment from highly experienced entrepreneurs.
Tangibly, several ProFounders are world class experts in machine vision, mobile design, machine intelligence, SaaS, robotics, ecommerce, etc. are we are able to significantly move the needle for our portfolio.
Disclaimer:
Anyone considering an investment in one of my syndicates should understand that these investments represent absolute risk, and there is a meaningful risk that they can lose all their money. There is no guarantee of a "soft landing" or acquisition if things do not go as planned. In addition, there is no guarantee that, even in a successful company, there will be opportunity for liquidity for the shares represented and an investor should be prepared to have their capital committed for ten years, or more without liquidity.
Dealflow
We syndicate all ProFounder member and network deals.