Earlier in the process
Find out what needs work.
Start with the two-minute readiness check. Then use the playbook to work through the decisions behind your raise.
Fundraising Resources
Founder and Designer
You don’t have to learn fundraising the hard way.
I spent six years building a venture-backed company. Now I’m building again, and working with a small number of founders on their next raise.
Raising soon?
Raise Story SprintStill figuring it out?
Fundraising Resources10 years building products & companies · ~$6M raised
Where are you at in your fundraise?
Raising soon
The Raise Story Sprint
Two weeks of direct work on your investment story, deck, and pitch. For founders preparing for or actively running a raise.
Raise Story SprintThe abbreviated version
I learned fundraising the same way I learned most things as a founder. By doing it, getting things wrong, and doing it again.
I started as a designer. Then I co-founded Ren Energy, and my job got complicated pretty quickly.
Over six years I worked across product, strategy, hiring, GTM, enterprise customers, and fundraising. I led three institutional rounds totaling about $6M, across both SAFE and priced rounds.
We built things that worked. Plenty that didn’t. Both taught me quite a bit.
The longer version10 yearsBuilding products + companies
6 yearsBuilding Ren Energy
3 roundsSAFE + priced institutional funding
~$6MRaised as a co-founder
Work with me
2 weeks · $3,000
Bring the actual raise. We’ll make the story much clearer.
For founders with a real company who need the investment story to land. We get into what you’ve proven, where the company could go, and how to explain what this round unlocks.
The Raise Story Sprint
$3,000
Limited to 2 founders at a time
Two weeks later
- 01
Story: a much clearer investment narrative.
- 02
Deck: a structure that supports the story.
- 03
Pitch: a clearer way to explain the company and handle investor questions.
Free + self-guided
Start here if you’re early
The First Raise Playbook
Get the fundraise out of your head and onto the page.
I learned most of this by fucking around and finding out. You can skip at least some of that part.
- A two-minute fundraising readiness check.
- Eight interactive chapters you can work through at your own pace.
- Saved answers and a readiness summary.
- A downloadable PDF of your completed workbook.
Building something cool?
I’m building again too. (My newest project)
I share what I’ve learned from direct experience, along with what I’m still figuring out. If you’re preparing to raise, start where it makes sense.