jiwonharu

Hello!

We invest $50,000 in early stage startup founders and invite them to our 10-week mentorship program in San Francisco. We invest in 8-10 startups at a time and keep the program intimate yet light.

Founders will get one-on-one mentorship from YC alumni and meet super cool entrepreneurs and investors throughout the 12 weeks.

Applications are due on Sunday, September 5 for our 6th cohort starting in October 2021.

We're launching Match to connect founders with vetted angels who'll invest and lead their seed round on Wefunder.

During this 6-week sprint, we'll introduce you to vetted Silicon Valley angel investors weekly. We'll also make sure you're not in this alone – you'll be in a small batch of founders and mentors who will push, advise and support you throughout your fundraising journey.

To raise on Wefunder, founders have to find a Lead Investor to represent their Wefunder round. The Lead is motivated to set a fair valuation this way.

Good point :) We didn't expect that many applications; we would've wanted to accept more if we had more in funds. That's why we created a Fellowship program a week after Fight the Virus batch started - there were so many qualified founders we still wanted to support. And half of the startups raising on Demo Day are from the fellowship! If you have ideas for how we can scale this to include more founders in the future, message me!

Yes for sure - you can read the story of all the founders, see their product and even their financials. XX invests in early stage founders and that's inherently risky but our thesis is that when founders are mentored by more experienced founders and are around other motivated founders, they'll have more likelihood of success. We've seen mentors and cohort founders go above and beyond for each other's success.

The Lead Investor represents the custodian that holds all the investors.

Startups are risky so people should not be investing with their savings account, especially during times like these!

Actually we've had our strongest months ever - not sure why given the times. I think people want to support businesses and missions they care about.

We made Fight the Virus Challenge to encourage more people to build companies that will creatively solve for the coronavirus crisis.

At the heart of what we're making is a community of super driven founders and mentors who want to make the current situation better. We think our lives will be changed forever and solve for social isolation, loneliness, homeschooling, remote work, better distribution, overload of medical care, etc. Whatever you think is important to solve for, we want to help.

We invest $50K (0% equity, SAFE MFN) in each company, pair you with an experienced founder mentor who will be your friend and push you to focus and build fast and give you an online community of equally motivated humans who want to make things better. We'll have cheese and wine fireside chats with super experienced founders (online) and play video games once a week to hang out and take care of each other.

Comment below if you have any questions! Thanks so much!

-Jiwon

We're inviting 12 new founders to Hawaii for a week to hang out and learn from five experienced founders from Caviar, Move Loot, Atrium and more!

You'll be paired with a mentor to have one-on-one's with them each day and we'll have dinner together every night.

We'll cover snack foods, dinner every night and lodging. You just have to figure out how to get yourself to Oahu, Hawaii.

Hello!

Today's the last day to apply to the xx: wefunder.com/xx (Takes 10 min!)

It's accelerator where you build your startup next to 5 other amazing STEM founders in SF for 3 months. You get $20k in investment, free housing for 3 months and gain lifelong friends.

We have amazing founders and investors (like Tracy from Plangrid!) joining for fireside chats and hope the xx inspires founders to think big and pay it forward.

If you have any questions or thoughts, please email me at [email protected] I'd love to know :)

Please apply. Don't ever count yourself short!! If you know friends, family, passerby who'd love to apply, please share with them! Thank you!