InvestLink Social

It’s been a minute since we last posted here — but we never stopped building.

Since that last update, we’ve crossed $500 MRR, tightened the product, and learned a ton about what actually moves the needle.

What’s happened:

• Reached $500 in monthly recurring revenue (100% organic)

• Verified 100s of founder → investor intros through the platform

• Brought on a technical co-founder and scaled down external dev costs

• Doubled down on cold outreach, founder-led sales, and user feedback loops

What we learned:

• Slow growth is underrated. It gave us space to build trust with early users and fix core issues.

• Retention > virality. Our stickiest users are the ones who immediately get value from intros or smart matches — not just lurk.

• Positioning matters. Framing ourselves as a curated, vetted, and spam-free founder/investor network changed everything.

Where we’re heading:

We're pushing toward our first 1,000 users and $1k MRR.

Next priorities:

• Sharpening onboarding + activation flows

• Adding Communities: our largest and most requested feature to date

• Leaning into Midwest + underserved founder communities

• And continuing to learn from every user conversation

If you’re building a marketplace, a SaaS with a network effect, or a founder community — would love to hear your biggest retention insight.

Also happy to jam if you’re stuck at the early-MRR phase. Been there. Still there.

👉 www.investlinksocial.com

Grateful to be part of the IH community — let’s keep building. 🙌

We're closing in on over 400 users on InvestLink Social and wanted to share some of the key things we've learned:

• Founders want funding, but lack direction. Many aren’t sure how to position their raise or target the right investors.

• Investors want filters and relevance. Cold DMs with mismatched theses are a huge pain point.

• Community > features. Engagement spiked when we focused on connections and meaningful conversations — not just tools.

What we’re working on next:

• Improving onboarding

• Smoother founder-to-investor matching UX

• More context-driven intros between users

Still early (<$200 MRR), but we’re focused on quality and retention.

👉 Try it free: www.investlinksocial.com

Would love your feedback if you're building something similar or navigating early growth.

Too many great founders struggle to fundraise — not because of their product, but because they don’t know the right people. At the same time, investors are overwhelmed with noise and underwhelmed by deal quality.

InvestLink Social exists to fix that.

We’re building a curated networking platform where founders and investors connect in a high-signal, low-noise environment. No pitch spam. No endless DMs. Just relevant, real conversations that lead to funding and partnership.

Where the idea came from:

InvestLink was born out of a fundraising experience where we pitched a health & wellness brand to a VC — only to hear, “I love the traction and team… but I only invest in tech.”

That moment made it painfully clear: we were talking to the wrong investor. Not because the business wasn’t legitimate — but because we didn’t know how to target the right ones. We were wasting time (ours and theirs) without even knowing.

It wasn’t just a rejection. It was a wake-up call.

We realized most founders are in the same boat — great products, real traction, but no roadmap for fundraising. And investors? They’re flooded with irrelevant cold pitches that don’t align with their thesis.

InvestLink exists to bridge that gap.

What we’ve built so far:

✅ A vetted, international community of founders & investors
✅ PRO-level filters (round, check size, sector, thesis)
✅ $400M+ AUM in investor capital
✅ Founders from 5+ countries
✅ YC & Techstars alumni inside
✅ Always-free version available, with optional PRO for deeper access

We launched our MVP in November and are now in scaling mode, focused on helping serious founders connect with aligned investors — especially those outside major coastal hubs.

Why we’re here:

We’re here to level the playing field — to make the right intros happen faster, smarter, and with more clarity on both sides.

If you're building or investing and tired of noise, we’d love for you to check it out:
🌐 www.investlinksocial.com