Product Designer turned founder to help others raise money

Hi Hackers,

Just wanted to introduce myself and the product I’m working on - Warm Intros, which offers tools to help you with your fundraise.

I’ve been a Product Designer for 10+ years and have been a part of many startups and 30+ products during the early stages. I’ve seen great ideas that couldn’t raise money and I’ve seen mediocre ideas raise plenty of money.

The lead process is broken for small teams and solo-founders: they are spending too much time raising money, establishing a network, etc. when they could be spending that time and money on their product. We can’t solve everything, but over time we’ll be able to help in many ways.

My first attempt to fix this problem is by creating “Raise Page” that founders feel comfortable sharing and marketing their raise more publicly. It’s almost like a landing page for your startup; where you can give away all the information, request information from investors and get analytics on your views in order to collect leads for your raise. There’s a certain fear around sharing your pitch deck, and my hope is to start making this less of a stigma and bring the investing world more into the light.

This is only step one, the next step is to have a marketplace of Investors who will get your Raise Page sent right to them if they are a good match. (it's in progress!)

If anyone other there is raising money and needs any help or feedback...
If there’s any investor looking for new deals...
Please reach out!

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